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Cityzen said:
Well, in one way it is. Wetherspoons get beers near the end of their shelf life at knock down prices, something those running brewery tied pubs can’t. Bars in Europe tend to be owner run where they have the freedom to buy from wherever they want. go back to the 1970s and beer in Germany, Belgium, Holland etc were far more expensive than here, that is not the case now.
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Is there any truth in that? I could see it at the start of the business, but on current patterns it always sounds like a poor business model from the breweries to me.

I assumed it is the volume of trade they have, that means they can cut out the middle men and buy straight from the brewery. Their size also means they can take a lower profit margin, especially as they have long opening hours, food that is family friendly, and they buy up (or lease) old buildings that are much cheaper, and don't have a bad reputation to overcome that would be the case if they bought old rundown pubs.
 
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Cityzen said:
A representative cross sample. I find it very accurate.<laugh>
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Accuracy is important, as is reading the article, something some on the HDM site failed to properly do today. Of course there's always some old duffer ready to point this out to them. :emoticon-0138-think


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