Price Check: ‘Sawtooth’ booze pricing confounds consumers
Supermarket operators refuse to explain why the price of alcohol varies dramatically from week to week.
WATCH: Alcohol Healthwatch executive director Andrew Galloway speaks with Maria Slade.
When people’s incomes go up and the real price of alcohol goes down, they drink more, a study by Alcohol Healthwatch says.
This may seem like stating the obvious, but delve into the advocacy group’s 2021 report and the role supermarkets play in this trend is revealed.
Supermarkets sell a third of
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