Minimum Alcohol pricing to be signed into Law

Exactly, the two groupd least affected by MUP are the problem drinkers who will do whatever it takes for their next fix and underage drinkers who can't get past the ID requirements in large chains.

Annoyingly, the half and quarter bottles of wine are way above MUP in most supermarkets (except LIDL,ALDI but small selection) and no sign of them coming down.

Handy to have if you don't think you'll get through whole bottle - especially with their price going up.

Ffs absolute bargain. cheap alcohol. Should be around 200e. Piss heads will be flocking into the place. I'd hate to be on the streets of your home town.

Might be better off staying in off the streets.

Wont someone please think of the little chislers.

I'd say stocking is more likely than selling at that price 🙂

Leave it to them and go to your local supermarket or if you can head up North.

And don't forget the local off licences representative body NOFFLA lobbied for the introduction of MUP.

FFS is spot on. Talk now of 'meal deals' in supermarkets and convenience stores being made illegal.

Where does it stop for the well behaved majority from suffering the lowest common denominator in this country.

Absolutely.

The MUP for a 24 can case of 4.3% Heineken is €40.80.

That gives them a very good profit margin.

I saw those articles on Monday about wanting to make meal deals illegal. And of course its the same public health doctor behind this latest plan as was pushing MUP on us. He is clearly a zealot who wants to nanny state everything in this country

Havent bought any since it came in either as I went back to homebrewing, its costing me just 50 or 60 cents a pint now so its a fair saving over paying over 2 euro a can. I guess with Stormont seized up we wont be seeing MUP introducted in the north any time soon so you should get another couple of years out of it yet.

They can do a Clubcard \ member discount because you can sign up for Clubcard without having to buy anything. O'Briens were doing something similar for a while.

What they can't do is only give you the discount because you have spent X or are spending Y at the same time.

The discount must be available to all Clubcard users in that store.

I noticed the same. Bought a bottle of 120 for €8 and a few days later it was €12 but €8 with a club card. Wasn't happy myself as I don't do rewards cards or apps but if Odyssey06 is correct then it seems like a very cute way to bend the rules. You can't get points on your card buying alcohol but if you posess a card you get a discount? Since around 2020 alcohol has been excluded from Dunnes' €50 voucher offer, SuperValu gift cards can't be used to buy alcohol and O'Briens closed their reward card scheme

Not quite on topic, I really didn't know where else to ask and we have touched upon Spend and Save being discontinued...

But, for say Heineken Zero, would that still qualify for Spend and Save?

Bought some Nanny State the other week in Tesco and "Challenge 25" came up on the self-service checkout... 🙄

Yup, emails and flyers, plenty offering delivery too.

Often hear of people being refused non alcohol classed beer outside of hours in Tesco, too, with people assuming it's the law when is seems to me it's just Tesco categorising them incorrectly, for some reason.

Perhaps they don't want underage kids to be seen to be buying what looks like beer? Does anyone know, is there any legal reason why under 18s can't buy n/a beer? It's not something I have heard discussed?

Edit : found it.

Currently legal to sell to minors but advertising restrictions are the same as for alcohol beers.

Tesco and other's choose to not sell to minors. In Tesco, a consequence of this is that you can't buy n/a beer outside of hours because computer says "no"!