Pub selling multipacks bottles of beer

happens all over OP.

I remember when tesco/dunnes were selling the cases of miller 24 for 17e or summet dirt cheap like that, a place back home bought a pallet of the stuff cos it was cheaper than their supplier could offer.

irlmarc wrote: »

The vat will only ever be paid once by the customer at the end as the shop the buys the stock will claim it back!

Vat is only ever paid at the end of the supply chain generally

Yep, if the landlord of the pub is buying the bottles with cash and not putting it through his books the only person he is screwing is himself as he would be entitled to claim back the VAT he was himself paying when he bought the bottles from the supermarket.

It's not illegal to resell multipack bottles, even if they are labelled as not for resale. It would only become illegal if you were falsly advertising the bottles as being of a bigger size or type(i.e. putting up posters that said the bottles were 330ml and then selling 300ml). Sometimes the bottles themselves may be printed with information that only applies to the whole of the multipack, in that case you would have to separately display the correct information for the individual bottle and make clear that the information on the bottle is not correct.

If the pub is owned by a brewery it may have specific agreements in place and internal codes of practice that could result in them feeling like they'd need to take action but I doubt any brewery would care where the pub gets bottles from unless they themselves are making the bottles. As for annoying the suppliers, if they are offering you a cost price that is higher than retail prices elsewhere you probably don't have the best relationship with them anyway...

Caveat Emptor. No-one is forcing you to buy the bottles, stop being so soft and order a proper pint...

the reality of the stuation is if someone drives to newry and fills a van or jeep at english supermarkekt prices i doubt even the largest southern wholesalers could compete

theyre selling smirnoff for £9.99 a litre and accepting € for £ so a bottle of smirnoff costing €9.99 in sainsburys newry can somehow cost €22.99 in tescos dublin

these savings are all across the board so its just surprising more people arent doing it

Cianos wrote: »

'So soft?' Ah, you judge your masculinity based on the volume of liquid you can ingest. How's that working out for you?

p.s Most pints taste like pi$$

It's got nothing to do with masculinity. It's just that complaining about the price of an already over-priced beverage is pointless. If you want the best value for money you buy draft pints, if you want to buy bottles then you pay more and get less, but in your head I suppose you look just like all the cool people on the adverts that drink bottled beer

deleriumtremens wrote: »

Whatever about multipack beer, I'd keep away from multi-pack cans of coke. They dont have as strong a taste and are far fizzier than the cans in the fridge. Also, I'd avoid the twin pack 2 litre bottles aswel. They are definately more watered down than the single 2 litre bottles.

i find that hard to believe

u think coke makes an extra watery version for sale in the twin packs ??

are u serious?

would it not just be retailers stocking up when these promotions are on and so possibly the cans are older ?

or the bottles taste more watery becasue theyre less carbonated at the bottom of a 2litre bottle?

or maybe the temperature coke is stored at has something to do with its condition

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

They can get VAT reciepts off Tesco so they don't pay VAT and hence no double taxation

Yeah but if a publican get a VAT receipt from Tesco and furnishes it to the Revenue then they will know he is buying supermarket beer.
If he doesn't let the revenue know then he can sell the beer and it is 'off the books' per se and he won't have to pay tax on his profits on it as the revenue never knew he had it in the first place.

Conversely the Revenue can audit his beer suppliers so they know exactly how much stock he bought throughout the year but they can't audit Tesco to find out because he is just one of a gazillion customers per year and Tesco dont know who he is, where he lives, etc.