Wetherspoons in Ireland

I can't believe people are worried about the Vinters, a small bit of popularity and they sky rocket their prices, they are the most greediest bunch out there. Feck them.

horsebox wrote: corkery wrote: I can't believe people are worried about the Vinters, a small bit of popularity and they sky rocket their prices, they are the most greediest bunch out there. Feck them. So true. 6+ Euro for a bottle of Miller in some pubs and you can get them for under 70 cents in the supermarket. How they justify these sort of prices I don't know.

Neither are the true reflection either. 70 cent is a joke also.   Below cost selling is not the answer either. ITs cheaper for some publicans to pick up their drink in supermarkets than it is from their supplier.   I do not blame all of the supermarkets for this as many of them do not want to enter this price war but have had to, otherwise nobody would shop there.  But I do think they should do away with below cost  selling for a product such as alcohol. 

However as long as Wetherspoons do not try to introduce below cost selling in the pub industry in order to burn everybody out of the market I have no problem with them.  I probably will not go there but that does not mean they should not be allowed open.  Freedom of choice. 


Edited by Baldrick - 15 Sep 2013 at 1:43pm

Wetherspoons will drive good pubs out of business. They sell beer at less than what other pubs can buy it.

Lads, how do yiz all reckon this will be "the end of the Irish local"? Where I work we do €3 pints during football matches, €3 Guinness between 6pm and 11pm on a Sunday, we have Tuborg permanently at €3 a pint and a 10% discount for the regulars. There is also hot finger food thrown out weekend evenings and during midweek Champions League games. Why would the regulars go to Wetherspoons when they can get all this in their local??  

Exactly dude. The way some of them are going on you'd swear the entire country was going to be overrun with these pubs.  A bit of competition for the greedy publicans (especially in Dublin) who think they can charge what they want for drink is needed. Charging €6 and over for a pint of Guinness (the cheapest pint in most pubs) is disgraceful. 

Metal Paul wrote: Lads, how do yiz all reckon this will be "the end of the Irish local"? Where I work we do €3 pints during football matches, €3 Guinness between 6pm and 11pm on a Sunday, we have Tuborg permanently at €3 a pint and a 10% discount for the regulars. There is also <span style="line-height: 1.4;">hot finger food thrown out weekend evenings and during midweek Champions League games. Why would the regulars go to Wetherspoons when they can get all this in their local??  </span>

the lad who owns my local could do with reading this

Metal Paul wrote: Well show it to him then!

if he throws out fingerfood on the very rare rare occasion he does be whingin about the price/effort it took. He's unbelievable.
Great little pub with good booze though hence why it does well

If weatherspoons was a football league it would be the EPL... 'souless with dodgy customers'

colemanY2K wrote: a blow in cavan man colm? I don't like it...this shower is bad news. A lot of lads giving out about being ripped off by piblicans are in Dublin. My local is similar to IrishMufc as it's €4 a pint of Guinness in my local but these coonts will spread like Japanese knot weed and will choke the life out of the irish local.