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> 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 th
by 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 agoAnd 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 agoThis 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.