Supermarkets

£2bn supermarket rate payback ‘should go to pubs’

04-Dec-2020 By Nikkie Thatcher

The nearly £2bn worth of rate relief supermarkets are paying back should be handed to the hospitality and tourism sector, in a bid to help the trade survive the coronavirus pandemic, a trade body has said.

Opinion

'Taxes killing pubs while supermarkets surge'

22-Nov-2016 By Tim Martin

Two taxes in particular are killing pubs according to Tim Martin: business rates and VAT. Here the JD Wetherspoon chairman has his say on the situation... 

Banks and stores are putting pubs in peril

04-May-2011 By Michael Kheng

Michael Kheng looks forward to the day when supermarkets sell alcohol at a responsible price and banks look after pubs.

MPs: stop sale of cheap supermarket booze

14-Dec-2010 By Ewan Turney

MPs from all three main parties have called for action on cheap alcohol sold through supermarkets. Several MPs stressed that there must be greater...

Martin: 'Lay off the supermarkets'

07-May-2009

The pub trade is committing a huge own goal by lobbying against the supermarkets according to the founder of JD Wetherspoon.In an exclusive interview...

Now more supermarkets than pubs

23-Mar-2009 By Ewan Turney

The number of supermarkets in Britain has overtaken the number of pubs for the first time as cheap alcohol in the off-trade continues to take its toll.

Focus North East: Stuffing supermarkets

28-May-2008

Comparing the deep discounting of supermarkets to the behaviour of nuclear powers during the Cold War seems a fanciful analogy.But it's one that...

THE GUV'NOR

20-Mar-2008

Nigel Anstead The licensee of the White Horse in Bedford, argues that this year's negative Budget will simply drive more people into the...

Government prepared to act on below cost sales

06-Dec-2007

Health minister says the Government is "prepared to change the law"

Dangerous cheap beer war outbreak

12-Oct-2007 By Ewan Turney

A dangerous new price war has broken out among the supermarkets - with some slashing the price of booze in half. The trade had feared that the...

Hopes for government action on off-trade deals

07-Jun-2007

The prospect of real action against the supermarkets' booze deals took a step closer to reality last week with the announcement of a government...

Could the beer industry do more to help?

09-May-2007

The Dump the Deals campaign has been running for four months now and in that time a lot of attention has been drawn to the issue of supermarket...

Grogan speaks over supermarket pricing

31-Jan-2007

There are few issues affecting pubs that John Grogan, Labour MP for Selby in Yorkshire, hasn¹t campaigned for in recent years.He has pushed the...

Dump the deals

18-Jan-2007

Last week The Publican launched a new campaign against supermarkets that are using alcohol as a loss leader.We all saw the deals over Christmas - 48...