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After bars and restaurants closed down here, some 3 weeks ago, various alcoholic drinks have become very scarce. People are just hoarding wines and beers like n

After bars and restaurants closed down here, some 3 weeks ago, various alcoholic drinks have become very scarce. People are just hoarding wines and beers like never before - was going to pick up a couple of bottles of wine, but walked out with cheap vodka.

nicolaslem 7y ago
It is the opposite in France, sell of alcohol in supermarkets saw a 16% drop.
rjkennedy98 7y ago
That's surprising because usually during an economic downturn lifespans go up precisely because people spend less on alcohol and other drugs.
- pbhjpbhj 7y ago
  Do you have a citation to support that trend, please? I'd expect the reverse -- somewhat like, I gather, cinema use increases because people don't go on holidays but have staycations.
ghaff 7y ago
I've actually been a bit surprised that where I live in Massachusetts at any rate, the liquor stores look remarkably normal. The one nearby grocery store that carries beer and wine looked pretty well-stocked for at least that part of its inventory as well. Maybe smaller stores in cities are shorter on inventory but out where I live any shortages are minimal. (Even though supermarkets are out of the usual items like paper goods.)
vetinari 7y ago
Years ago, I've read an article with experiences from war-torn Sarajevo. At the time, alcohol became currency.
pwg 7y ago
> People are just hoarding wines and beers like never before Are they? Or are all the people who used to go to the now shutdown bars and restaurants, where their beers and wines were supplied by the bars/restaurants, and therefore, commercial supply houses, now drinking at home instead, and so there is much more purchasing on the retail side, resulting in shortages because the retail side was not ready for a substantial X% instant increase in consumption? I.e., all the beer/wine that used to flow via the commercial supply houses now has to flow via the retail stores.
- _ph_ 7y ago
  And if you take beer, that is delivered to bars and restaurants in barrels, while shops carry bottles. Same as with flour, the limitation isn't supply of the base but of packing/botteling.
- criley2 7y ago
  This is what is occurring, and the transition isn't necessarily easy. For example, there's no easy to way to take say 30% of all beer consumed (from kegs) and just on-demand convert that to canned.

nicolaslem 7y ago

It is the opposite in France, sell of alcohol in supermarkets saw a 16% drop.

rjkennedy98 7y ago

That's surprising because usually during an economic downturn lifespans go up precisely because people spend less on alcohol and other drugs.

pbhjpbhj 7y ago
Do you have a citation to support that trend, please? I'd expect the reverse -- somewhat like, I gather, cinema use increases because people don't go on holidays but have staycations.

ghaff 7y ago

I've actually been a bit surprised that where I live in Massachusetts at any rate, the liquor stores look remarkably normal. The one nearby grocery store that carries beer and wine looked pretty well-stocked for at least that part of its inventory as well. Maybe smaller stores in cities are shorter on inventory but out where I live any shortages are minimal. (Even though supermarkets are out of the usual items like paper goods.)

vetinari 7y ago

Years ago, I've read an article with experiences from war-torn Sarajevo. At the time, alcohol became currency.

pwg 7y ago

> People are just hoarding wines and beers like never before Are they? Or are all the people who used to go to the now shutdown bars and restaurants, where their beers and wines were supplied by the bars/restaurants, and therefore, commercial supply houses, now drinking at home instead, and so there is much more purchasing on the retail side, resulting in shortages because the retail side was not ready for a substantial X% instant increase in consumption? I.e., all the beer/wine that used to flow via the commercial supply houses now has to flow via the retail stores.

_ph_ 7y ago
And if you take beer, that is delivered to bars and restaurants in barrels, while shops carry bottles. Same as with flour, the limitation isn't supply of the base but of packing/botteling.
criley2 7y ago
This is what is occurring, and the transition isn't necessarily easy. For example, there's no easy to way to take say 30% of all beer consumed (from kegs) and just on-demand convert that to canned.