emnpaul wrote:Nor am I naive enough to think that AIB aren't in business to make money. They are. However it would be nice to think that they cared enough about beer and their own reputation to do something along the lines of " This is what the customer asked for, but we can give them this for the same price and because we know what beer is meant to taste like, we know the punters will like it and the chablis sipping entrepreneur will be none the wiser".
bullfrog wrote:Have retailers the ability to source and stock the genuine articles, or do the breweries, considering they own the rights to the respective brands locally, have some sort of trade right meaning that their versions have to be distributed here exclusively?
BadSeed wrote:Bee in bonnet now....
bullfrog wrote:If a bottle-o stocked the actual imports, they could probably do well with in-store marketing trumping that they were the genuine imports. Could probably add another few quid to their margin on them, too.
bullfrog wrote:Makes a lot of sense. Too bad a bottle-o that only stocked decent imports and micro/craft brews wouldn't really do too well, as your average punter just wants to buy the megaswill that they've always drunk.
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