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"CDow":ajqg20tt wrote: Why not boycott all the supermarkets? They've closed more small shops than Diageo have breweries.
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Was it the supermarkets or the customers who chose them over the small shops?

"Lars":yap582p0 wrote:

"CDow":yap582p0 wrote: Why not boycott all the supermarkets? They've closed more small shops than Diageo have breweries.
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Was it the supermarkets or the customers who chose them over the small shops?[/quote:yap582p0]

6 from column A, half a dozen from column B.

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In a previous life I worked with a wholesale grocery company which sold the own brand 'Shop Local'.
This was more than an own brand though, it was a concept.

Unfortunately, the masses will always succumb for whatever reason, to the larger store with bigger, brighter, better. The main problem with grocery being that anyone can buy and sell groceries, and multiples quite simply have more clout.

I guess the same applies to breweries, the difference being, that the breweries product can only come from one source, so the brewery can own its own market.

A subtle difference between Supermarkets and breweries.

I personally have given up boycotting Supermarkets, but with beer, the playing field is very different.

&amp;quot;TheBeerNut&amp;quot;:z8cadol1 wrote: Budvar is not any way connected to Diageo.[/quote:z8cadol1]
Yup, that's been fixed. Confusing bit of trademark dispute!

&amp;quot;CDow&amp;quot;:36vijjuq wrote: There's a very Dublin / East Coast centric outlook here. Most of the micros supply very little of their product outside of Dublin, that is business and I'm not complaining. Cork is in the unusual position of having 2 micros and also Elbow Lane. I have tried to do business with the micros and received the sum total of 3 replies. I supplied personal names and mobile numbers of publicans at the request of the micros and contact has never been made.
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Is it really a Dublin outlook? Well apologies if that's the case, just thought people all around the country would like to know about this, just started it as a bittova laugh and an excuse to drink nice beer. <!-- s:roll: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_rolleyes.gif" alt="" title="Rolling Eyes" /><!-- s:roll: -->