Party-Pooper Clegg
Nick Clegg is a party-pooper. And a control-freak one at that.
Nick Clegg, the Lib Dem leader said it should be made illegal for shops to sell alcohol at a loss.
Branding big supermarkets “irresponsible” for aggressively promoting alcohol sales, Mr Clegg told the Sheffield Alcohol Conference that many big stores are selling drinks at a price that does not even cover their own costs for duty and VAT. (The Telegraph)
I have one thing to say to that: fuck off you authoritarian cunt*.
It is up the alcoholmarkets supermarkets how they price the alcohol they sell, whether it be cheap or not. The only people who have any right to object to this are their shareholders, because it matters to them how much money the company makes.
If they want to sell me alcohol at a lower price than they pay for it, and if I want to drink it, then that is our own decisions. They know that they are selling it at that price, and I know what drinking too much alcohol could do my body - and so we all make our own informed choices.
It certainly is nothing to do with politicans.
* I apologise if youy are offended by the language, but tough. But it’s how I feel - and it’s true.
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I think Booze is sold to cheap aswell. Why don’t you rant about me and everyone else who think its to cheap?
You Can reply to my comment on my blog.
Why do you think booze is too cheap, any why is it up to politicians to determine what the correct price for companies to sell alcohol and for me to purchase it?
Picking on alcohol is unfair and does sound rather like jumping on the “anything fun is bad” bandwagon.
But loss leading in general should be made illegal (it is in many countries), since it becomes all too easy for large chains to force smaller retailers out of business. This is simply because large chains can run at a loss in a new area while making profit elsewhere in other markets, this is not true of smaller retailers who can very quickly be put out of business.
This hurts competition and thus the consumer, since once an effective monopoly is established prices inevitably rise and service levels drop. The consumer has little choice but to put up with it - especially since many superstore items such as food, petrol, fags are by nature inelastic.
Marcus, there are four major supermarket chains who all compete against each other to get our custom. There isn’t going to be any monopolisation any time soon.
It simply is not up to politicians to sell companies how they can much they can sell their ware or tell customers how they may pay for them.