I will make up for it tonight.

Oh Dear!
The pubs actually have competition!
What an outrage.

Now there is an environmentally friendly solution, getting supplied from Glasgow.

Wait for it - I can hear the "anti-smoking ban" lot thundering down on this one.

Strange they haven't blamed the smoking ban?

Must be the first time they haven't blamed it for the downturn in pub trade

#3 &#4:

Seeing as you mention it....

#5 Aha! Tell you what, shall we not bother today... it is Friday after all. Let's just go to the pub.

bottle of beer in Pub £3.00
bottle of beer in supermarket 80p
now who is ripping off who?

Must fone the wife,Bring in a caerry out in wi yea.

drink sales falling!i dont think so!at my work they drink as if its going out of fashion,how anyone can drink the amount some do and still be standing is beyond belief!!!maybe thats a fife thing(im not a fifer by the way,i only live here!!!)but here the drink culture is alive and well,and so are the sales

Strange, this depot has not actually shut yet so how can they blame the down turn on that when it doesn't shut till Apri. Also strange how the green lobby are not
shouting the odds about the carbon cost of moving the
goods further. So what's left chepaer alcohol elsewhere
well that's competition for you init, The smoking ban obviously. Yeh it's better to drink at home, make your own beer and wines invite your drinking buddies round
bringing their own home made drinkies with them and their own fags, make your own ambience and stuff the
P.C. moaners.

some folk like the pub,espec the auld guys on there own etc,but aye a lot more are having a drink at home now,i prefer the pub,i coudnt be a**ed with folk walkin about steamin in my home,pukin up,arguing etc,its more fun to watch from afar lol

unclegus
please its "whom" not "who". tut tut tut.

going to the supermarket on a Friday is not the same a going to the pub. perhaps the pubs that are finding competition tough should try to up their game a bit. some of the pubs that are going ot the wall are the "that's not sawdust its last night furniture" type and deserve to die out.

No sympathy with them.Why pay ridiculous prices in a pub when I can drink in the house far more cheaply. And I can have a fag too !

I was using the colloquial.

I prefer to go to the bowling club (yes I am an older fellow) Pint for under £2 and malt whisky for £1.40.
2 snooker tables, a pool table,big screen TV,indoor and outdoor bowling facilities,saturday night socials,quiz nights etc.

Aye 15 but ye cannae light up yer deerstalker an suck the dottle through ony mair can ye!

Here 15 Is that gaelic like un cleg us or is it uncle gus?

#13 Maybe not for long if the have their way.

thing that i got peed off with in pubs was not really people smoking it was the person who would sit and glare at you or come over and slaver on ye couldnt move for pychios wanting to fight ye

19 -keit011

Haw - You talking to me?

;)

Why can`t pubs sell their drink at reasonable prices?

Why can't the pubs sell booze at 'reasonable prices?' As indicated in the feature, rising rents, fewer drinks sold... both combine to necessitate higher prices. It's a shame the popularity of a night on the tiles is shrinking... Hopefully the good pubs will survive, as they usually seem to do. And they do survive because they offer a good reason to frequent them... good publican, decent food, a sense of comfort and familiarity... like Bennet's by the Kings, the Canny Man, etc. Want prices to make more sense? Freguent the pubs more often... take some pals and enjoy yourselves... then take the bus home.

£1.50 a pint in Edinburgh Student Union!

#7 unclegus,

What pubs are you going to? What beer are you drinking?

If you go to the Standing Order you can get pints of decent real ale for less than 2 quid! Ok, they may not be served in a dirty bottle with a bit of lime in the top to keep the flies away (?) but there you go!

#21, Repton, you should try The Standing Order in George Street. £1.90 for a pint of Stella with other drinks at similar prices (except when the 6 nations are on when they bump the prices up to £3 a pint).

Petrol Head # 25, try Lloyds Bar at the Omni Centre as well (if you prefer dance music videos with your cheap pint).

"the industry is also still adding up the costs of the smoking ban introduced last year. "........

...call me a cynic but I reckon this company were not trading that profitably before the smoking ban and although the ban will have an effect to a degree; they are using that story to the max to justify their redundancies and relocation. "Business needs" are important, but lets be honest - the owners were not getting the return they had hoped, so they had to rationalise their operations. Don't blame Jack's smoking ban.