Beer sales 'lowest since 1930s'

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this one's for mega! beer deflation!

Beer sales 'lowest since 1930s'

Beer sales in pubs are "at their lowest level since the Great Depression", one of the country's leading pub representative groups has said.

The British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) said beer sales in pubs were down 10.6% compared with the same quarter last year.
It said the data referred to more than 90% of the types of ale and lager sold in the UK, including foreign brands.
An ongoing decline has been steepened by tightened spending, the group said.

Tax blamed

Rob Hayward, chief executive of the association, said: "Beer sales in pubs are now at their lowest level since the Great Depression of the 1930s - down seven million pints a day from the height of the market in 1979."

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this one's for mega! beer deflation!

Beer sales 'lowest since 1930s'

Beer sales in pubs are "at their lowest level since the Great Depression", one of the country's leading pub representative groups has said.

The British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) said beer sales in pubs were down 10.6% compared with the same quarter last year.
It said the data referred to more than 90% of the types of ale and lager sold in the UK, including foreign brands.
An ongoing decline has been steepened by tightened spending, the group said.

Tax blamed

Rob Hayward, chief executive of the association, said: "Beer sales in pubs are now at their lowest level since the Great Depression of the 1930s - down seven million pints a day from the height of the market in 1979."

Okay. Now I understand why Finster's FDI was showing real deflation. This is a catastrophe...:eek:

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this one's for mega! beer deflation!

Beer sales 'lowest since 1930s'

Beer sales in pubs are "at their lowest level since the Great Depression", one of the country's leading pub representative groups has said.

The British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) said beer sales in pubs were down 10.6% compared with the same quarter last year.
It said the data referred to more than 90% of the types of ale and lager sold in the UK, including foreign brands.
An ongoing decline has been steepened by tightened spending, the group said.

Tax blamed

Rob Hayward, chief executive of the association, said: "Beer sales in pubs are now at their lowest level since the Great Depression of the 1930s - down seven million pints a day from the height of the market in 1979."

Hey, they're cutting back on the fish and chips too...:eek:

Frugal shoppers trim spending on food

By James Thompson
Friday, 24 October 2008

Food sales in Britain have fallen for the first time in more than 20 years, as customers tighten their belts...

...The ONS said that sales volumes in predominantly food stores, from butchers to the big supermarkets, fell 0.1 per cent for the three months to September, compared to the same period last year. This is first time they have entered negative territory since 1986.

While it is widely acknowledged that some consumers are switching to own-label products and discounters Aldi and Lidl, the figures suggest people are actually cutting back on the amount of food they eat...

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May be this investment advice will help !

1. If you had purchased $1,000.00 of Wachovia stock one year ago you would have $49.00 left.
2. With Delta Air Lines, you would have had $16.50 left of the original $1,000.00.
3. With Washington Mutual, you would have had less than $5.00 left.
4. If you had purchased $1,000.00 worth of beer one year ago, drank all of the beer, then turned in the cans for aluminum recycling, you would have $214.00 cash.
Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle.
...It's called the 401-Keg....

[Chris]

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There are visible signs of a deep recession in my part of London town. A large increase in the number of homeless on the streets (we don't do free tents by the Thames like the French, or at least not yet).

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There are visible signs of a deep recession in my part of London town. A large increase in the number of homeless on the streets (we don't do free tents by the Thames like the French, or at least not yet).

Brings new meaning to the term "waterfront property"...

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Beer does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to man.

--A.E. Housman

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My bad.

It's:

And malt does more than Milton can