Comment on Prospect of £5 pint leaves bitter taste for some pubgoers

Lemmist@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• blackn1ght@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Pint is around 0.5 liter?

  Just about, 568ml to be exact.

  How much does beer cost in supermarkets in England?

  It depends on the beer and the supermarket, but it’s a lot cheaper to buy beer in supermarkets.

  Take this 500ml bottle of Peroni in Tesco - it’s £2.75 (or 3 for £6 with loyalty card) - in a pub, 500ml of Peroni will probably be roughly £5, depending where you are in the UK.

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  • Lemmist@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So the price is just around twice as much? Hm. It looks like you have seriously high beer prices overall, not just pubs trying to set some crazy coefficients.

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    • snaprails@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      A sizeable chunk of the price of a pint in a pub is taxes. Excise Duty + VAT - the VAT being applied after the Excise Duty, effectively taxing the tax. In addition many pubs are owned by “pub cos”, who force the tenants to buy from prescribed suppliers at inflated prices. The pub cos are really property companies, they care not if this means the pub business fails, they’ll just close and redevelop the building/site as something else. Like many other 🇬🇧 problems this has its roots in Thatcherism.

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    • DampSquid@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Cries in Australian

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