Alcohol & Retail
Do we want a 24hr Tesco Extra selling cheap alcohol in vast quantities in the town?
RGDATA – criticises TESCO for selling beer cheaper than water in the run up to bank holiday weekend July 29th 2010.
http://www.rgdata.ie/
The 5,000m2 store will sell large volumes of alcohol as a ‘loss leader’. Although this is a legal practice, we don’t want to increase the accessibility of cheap alcohol in Cavan town. What ramifications will this have on the fabric of our local community, alcohol addiction levels, domestic violence, health etc?
It has been proven that Alcohol in Ireland is 50% more affordable than it was in 1996, according to the 2009 RAND report. The report, commissioned by DG SANCO (European Commission’s Department of Health) for the European Alcohol and Health Forum, makes the link between alcohol affordability, consumption and harms.
See the link below for the full report:
The Alcohol Action Ireland web site has links to numerous reports that state the harmful effect of excessive use of alcohol and the link between alcohol abuse and its cheap price. See: http://alcoholireland.ie/
This is one good example:
Alcohol Action Ireland’s 2010 Have We Bottled It? Alcohol Marketing and Young People survey revealed that two out of three Irish adults back a minimum price for alcohol, a floor price below which alcohol cannot be sold, while almost half of people said they would buy less alcohol if the price were to increase by just 10%
Here is another:
More than half of Irish adults report a harmful drinking pattern – that’s 7 in 10 men and 4 in 10 women who drink. The Survey of Lifestyle, Attitude and Nutrition (SLÁN) Report on Alcohol contains the most up to date data on Irish drinking patterns
