Lidl's Brigg store is shifting case after case of its excellent German lager, now the price has been specially reduced to just £4.99p for six pint bottles. That's £1 off the usual cost which was good value, in any case. And a good pint it is, too. Meanwhile, across the road at Brigg Blog’s favourite stop-off point - Rhythm and Booze, in Spring’s Parade - their bottled real ale is £1 per bottle, if you buy six. Plenty to choose from, too. Also excellent value and good quality.
This makes us reflect on just how much the Government is coining in through tax on a pint of lager or ale, if Lidl and R & B can afford to sell their bottles at these prices.
R & B’s prominent sign on the white wall at the every end of the Spring’s Parade building, proclaiming red hot prices, is certainly fair and accurate. The ‘cool dude’ guitarist on their sign looks like John Lee Hooker.
Surely he never played Brigg Corn Exchange alongside The Diseased!
Firstly, Scribs, I'd rather live in a egalitarian taxed society where for the greater good there are community safety nets and benefits for the wider community than in a libertarian society that promotes no, or minimum government taxation.
ReplyDeleteAbolish tax and it will be replaced by private insurances and agencies promoting their own exclusive services - each of which will preclude groups and individuals from purchasing/enjoying benefits that we now take for granted.
That apart....many large retailers employ a variety of means promote their emporiums. Some, for example, we use the ploy of a 'loss leader' - usually an everyday/basic/popular - with the intention that it attracts more customers to the store.....combined with the psychology of shoppers' behaviour, the retailer makes profit as customers often tend to purchase other goods while in pursuit of the bargain.
Self-service store benefit from 'impulsive buying' - a shopper goes in for one thing and in the process buys several items that he/she is attracted to.
Similarly, there is little profit in cigs and newspapers....but retailers will continually sell such as a costumer will rarely leave the shop without purchasing another/other items.
Another ploy is for large retailers to bulk buy at reduced prices products/produced that is over-stocked in a warehouse.
An over-stocked/over-produced item faces the threat of having to be destroyed once the 'best before date', 'use by' date is approaching...so are sold off cheaply.
For instance, often pub landlords can purchase a short 'best before date' beer cask from the brewery at a much reduced rate......and retailers have similar opportunities for a whole range of goods.
Whatever the reason for these promotions, Scribs...they have usually been well-thought out in advanced.....
Firstly, Scribs, I'd rather live in a egalitarian taxed society where for the greater good there are community safety nets and benefits for the wider community than in a libertarian society that promotes no, or minimum government taxation.
ReplyDeleteAbolish tax and it will be replaced by private insurances and agencies promoting their own exclusive services - each of which will preclude groups and individuals from purchasing/enjoying benefits that we now take for granted.
That apart....many large retailers employ a variety of means promote their emporiums. Some, for example, we use the ploy of a 'loss leader' - usually an everyday/basic/popular - with the intention that it attracts more customers to the store.....combined with the psychology of shoppers' behaviour, the retailer makes profit as customers often tend to purchase other goods while in pursuit of the bargain.
Self-service store benefit from 'impulsive buying' - a shopper goes in for one thing and in the process buys several items that he/she is attracted to.
Similarly, there is little profit in cigs and newspapers....but retailers will continually sell such as a costumer will rarely leave the shop without purchasing another/other items.
Another ploy is for large retailers to bulk buy at reduced prices products/produced that is over-stocked in a warehouse.
An over-stocked/over-produced item faces the threat of having to be destroyed once the 'best before date', 'use by' date is approaching...so are sold off cheaply.
For instance, often pub landlords can purchase a short 'best before date' beer cask from the brewery at a much reduced rate......and retailers have similar opportunities for a whole range of goods.
Whatever the reason for these promotions, Scribs...they have usually been well-thought out in advanced.....
Firstly, Scribs, I'd rather live in a egalitarian taxed society where for the greater good there are community safety nets and benefits for the wider community than in a libertarian society that promotes no, or minimum government taxation.
ReplyDeleteAbolish tax and it will be replaced by private insurances and agencies promoting their own exclusive services - each of which will preclude groups and individuals from purchasing/enjoying benefits that we now take for granted.
That apart....many large retailers employ a variety of means promote their emporiums. Some, for example, we use the ploy of a 'loss leader' - usually an everyday/basic/popular - with the intention that it attracts more customers to the store.....combined with the psychology of shoppers' behaviour, the retailer makes profit as customers often tend to purchase other goods while in pursuit of the bargain.
Self-service store benefit from 'impulsive buying' - a shopper goes in for one thing and in the process buys several items that he/she is attracted to.
Similarly, there is little profit in cigs and newspapers....but retailers will continually sell such as a costumer will rarely leave the shop without purchasing another/other items.
Another ploy is for large retailers to bulk buy at reduced prices products/produced that is over-stocked in a warehouse.
An over-stocked/over-produced item faces the threat of having to be destroyed once the 'best before date', 'use by' date is approaching...so are sold off cheaply.
For instance, often pub landlords can purchase a short 'best before date' beer cask from the brewery at a much reduced rate......and retailers have similar opportunities for a whole range of goods.
Whatever the reason for these promotions, Scribs...they have usually been well-thought out in advanced.....