Wetherspoons selling off real ales at 99p/pint ahead of lockdown


Anyone boycotting the place is hardly gonna read that like.

Bit daft them having disposable one-use menus to reduce the risk of covid infection but having a magazine that's passed around all and sundry.


Most of those that have published apologies are hardly lefty publications like.
I know thats why i posted it on here, this is the second time. Havnt had a reply about it off the spoons haters yet (shock horror, cue replies now), unless you are in the club too, then you're the first.
 
I know thats why i posted it on here, this is the second time. Havnt had a reply about it off the spoons haters yet (shock horror, cue replies now), unless you are in the club too, then you're the first.

I don't hate them, I just rarely go in them. There's much better pubs and clubs where I live. Had cod and chips from the chippy the neet, the best place for it. Cost £9 but would happily pay a bit extra for quality.
 
I don't hate them, I just rarely go in them. There's much better pubs and clubs where I live. Had cod and chips from the chippy the neet, the best place for it. Cost £9 but would happily pay a bit extra for quality.
Fair enough marra. some get incandescent about the place on here for some reason.

I agree, pub fish and chips are shite most of the time. Cant beat a chippy for it, try Colemans in South Shields next time you’re up this way.
 
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Fair enough marra. some get incandescent about the place on here for some reason.

I agree, pub fish and chips are shite most of the time. Cant beat a chippy for it, try Colemans in South Shields next time you’re up this way.

I've put on here before, there's a spoons about 400 yards down from the club. Think I've been in twice in about 3 years. Nowt against them, I just prefer the club. Sport on the telly (one of the few places where the cricket is guaranteed to be on), cheap juke box, few San Miguel's and/or vodkas, some good company and I'm made up. Nee walking up three flights of stairs for a piss either tbf.
 
He's a massive cock but didn't say many of the things he's accused of.
What I don't understand is why nobody else appears to have tried to do the same as Spoons ?
 
I noticed when I was in Wakefield pre Sheffield Wednesday match on Tuesday that the pub next to the Wetherspoons was boarded up.
A consequence of good old Tim Martin's pricing policies.
 
I've put on here before, there's a spoons about 400 yards down from the club. Think I've been in twice in about 3 years. Nowt against them, I just prefer the club. Sport on the telly (one of the few places where the cricket is guaranteed to be on), cheap juke box, few San Miguel's and/or vodkas, some good company and I'm made up. Nee walking up three flights of stairs for a piss either tbf.

Spoons seems to have knocked the live football on the head post covid.

They used to have BT & Sky on in Jamesons which is looking very rundown currently.
 
Spoons seems to have knocked the live football on the head post covid.

They used to have BT & Sky on in Jamesons which is looking very rundown currently.

Never had sport on in any of the ones in Pompey afaik. It is an absolutely massive cost though. £1.2k a month for the club just for Sky (what you pay is based on what business rates you pay). Tried to get a discount for only being open six days a week and three of those 7pm - 11pm but they were having neen of it. BT wanted £500 p/m when the only live sports they had were a Saturday teatime live PL game and Premiership rugby about 5 years ago (a swift no thanks).
 
I don't hate them, I just rarely go in them. There's much better pubs and clubs where I live. Had cod and chips from the chippy the neet, the best place for it. Cost £9 but would happily pay a bit extra for quality.

I use them in probably the same way as almost everyone else

In a place we're not familiar with we hoy the Spoons app on the phone, have a few cheap pints and some cheap bait then go elsewhere

Say what you want about Tim Martin but it's a brilliant business model
 
Does spoons not buy food, or employ gardeners to attend the plants or local builders to sort out problems. I think you will find they put loads into local economies
They don’t buy food locally. They do buy some real ales locally but not at a fair market value.
 
They don’t buy food locally. They do buy some real ales locally but not at a fair market value.
Surely they don't set the price though. My lad buys beer from local breweries for Spoons and it's a part of the job he really enjoys. Talking to the brewer then setting them up onsite with the brewer as well
 

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