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


It's always been cheaper to drink cans than go to Wetherspoons. No one is realising it.
Just more people tightening belts now.
I’m grateful that drinking cans in the house isn’t my thing. Unless I have people over but still prefer the pub. I can understand people on a tight budget staying in and getting a slab of lager for a tenner.
 
I’m grateful that drinking cans in the house isn’t my thing. Unless I have people over but still prefer the pub. I can understand people on a tight budget staying in and getting a slab of lager for a tenner.
Aye a lot of their trade was those on the tighter budget. They'll be stopping in now.
He's mostly aimed at that market and they're the worst affected in all this.
 
They just sound like old fuddy duddies TBF.
I’m grateful that drinking cans in the house isn’t my thing. Unless I have people over but still prefer the pub. I can understand people on a tight budget staying in and getting a slab of lager for a tenner.
I’m not a big house drinker. So similar boat, Tim’s places are aimed at those who drink daily.
 
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Aye a lot of their trade was those on the tighter budget. They'll be stopping in now.
He's mostly aimed at that market and they're the worst affected in all this.
There will also be people who will feel the pinch and shave a few in spoons to eke out there budget on a night out.
His business model will just be tweaked. Opening pubs with reasonable prices seems akin to the work of the devil for some. I’ll happily have a couple in spoons if I’m just out for a bit of a catch up rather than going out.
 
I meet some friends in the Mile Castle in Newcastle.

We all have to travel to meet up and the best compromise for us all is Newcastle and the Mile is close to the station. It’s easy to get everyone seated, easy getting food and drinks and it just works.

I’m really not bothered about who owns it or his politics, I just want to have a few beers and meet my mates.
 
The one in Fratton has had a dartboard put in and now has a team in the local leagues. Don't think I've ever seen that in a spoons before.
 
Just absolutely comical what’s happened to his pubs after he publicly championed brexit.

Spectacular schadenfreude isn't it.
It’s hard to see what he’s going to do. Massive premises where their only pull is cheap drink.

I don’t think it’s just cheap drink keeping people away, surely everyone knows that 4 cans is mostly cheaper than 4 pints.

Exactly and if what you're drinking is virtually the same as in cans as it is in pints, you buy the cans.
I suppose the only thing pulling people in rather than buying a crate and getting their mates to come to theirs for 9am to start is that someone's hoovered spoons, it's probably warm and they don't have to pay for the bog roll.
 
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Just absolutely comical what’s happened to his pubs after he publicly championed brexit.
Awful watching Remoaners celebrating pubs suffering due to covid/war in Ukraine.
They really have lost the plot and should get themselves out for a pint, the miserable buggers
 
JD Wetherspoon boss Tim Martin has said the pub chain could be under threat as people have realised there are cheaper ways to drink.

Martin said his company, which has almost 900 pubs across the UK, had a ‘momentous challenge’ on its hands to tempt customers back after lockdown.

He also said Wetherspoon hasn’t made a profit since the pandemic, with sales unable to reach the same level as they did in pre-pandemic 2019.

The Wetherspoon boss believes that now punters have seen the cheaper prices on offer in supermarkets, they may not fancy going back to pubs
i think its just the way kids drink these days as well. my boy is at uni and they are more likely to have a few drinks before they go out (much later than we did) and only have a couple at most in the pubs/clubs.
Awful watching Remoaners celebrating pubs suffering due to covid/war in Ukraine.
They really have lost the plot and should get themselves out for a pint, the miserable buggers
its covid, cost of living and brexit combined.
 
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i think its just the way kids drink these days as well. my boy is at uni and they are more likely to have a few drinks before they go out (much later than we did) and only have a couple at most in the pubs/clubs.

its covid, cost of living and brexit combined.
It's really not though is it?
 
i think its just the way kids drink these days as well. my boy is at uni and they are more likely to have a few drinks before they go out (much later than we did) and only have a couple at most in the pubs/clubs.

That's been going on for years though, it's nothing new. If anything people are out earlier now than they used to be hence the number of nightclubs shutting down.

The bigger problem is people just don't drink as much anymore full stop and Covid no doubt hasn't helped. I rarely go out nowadays, late 20's and nor do most people I know. If we do we'd rather go have food or go to a gig or something. The idea of just sitting in a pub just isn't appealing, we can text and talk on a group chat 24/7 instead and save money.

Not being brutal here, one of the biggest problems with the likes of Wetherspoon's are it's customers are dying and not being replaced. Same with social clubs.
 
i think its just the way kids drink these days as well. my boy is at uni and they are more likely to have a few drinks before they go out (much later than we did) and only have a couple at most in the pubs/clubs

Youngsters are also drinking less. My niece is 20 and hardly drinks at all. She would rather hang out at a pretentious coffee shop than a pub and thinks "oldies" getting drunk is sad. How have we raised a generation more boring than us?
 
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Awful watching Remoaners celebrating pubs suffering due to covid/war in Ukraine.
They really have lost the plot and should get themselves out for a pint, the miserable buggers

I visited two independent excellent pubs in Westhoughton last Thursday evening. I chuckled as I walked past 'Spoons thinking about how Tim Martin's stupid actions have cost him millions.
It made the pints I enjoyed taste all the better.

Cheers!
i think its just the way kids drink these days as well. my boy is at uni and they are more likely to have a few drinks before they go out (much later than we did) and only have a couple at most in the pubs/clubs.

When I was at Uni (2003-2006), you're talking 99p pints in some places.
Now, they get pissed before they even head to the pubs/clubs.
 
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