Saturday 22 May 2010

Tesco hikes price of booze.

Supermarkets price off licence chain out of business:

The off-licence chain which trades as Threshers, Wine Rack, The Local, Haddows, Bottoms Up and Victoria Wine is closing 128 shops in Scotland.
First Quench owns 219 off-licences across Scotland but went into administration at the end of October.
The shops, which are spread across the country, will all close before Christmas with 688 redundancies.
Across the UK, 391 stores will shut, resulting in 2,140 redundancies, though the Wine Rack brand has been sold.

Now -We- want the supermarkets to hike the price:

Supermarket chain Tesco says it wants to see curbs on the sale of cheap alcohol during this Parliament.
Tesco has welcomed a promise by the coalition government to ban below-cost sales of
alcohol in England and Wales.
The UK's biggest retailer goes further, saying it would back the more radical step of introducing a minimum price.
Tesco says polling for the company found excessive drinking and the anti-social behaviour it causes is one of the public's most serious concerns.

Jackie Bird, Nicola Stugeon and Lucy Neville-Rolfe. From Tesco.
All presented this on 'Reporting Scotland' as Tesco responding in a humanitarian way to the wishes of the people of Scotland.

"Crucially Tesco have reached their position after consultation with customers, demonstrating that there is also consumer support for change.
"Like me, they believe that it's wrong that you can buy alcohol in supermarkets for less than the cost of bottled water" - Nicola Sturgeon.

There is a news story here but not the one presented to us.

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