The Stonegate Pub group is planning to hike beer prices by 20p a pint in some of its pubs at busy times.
While the right-wing media often blames wages for inflation, beer prices are part of the ONS basket which determines the figure so perhaps its no surprise that the figure remains high.
In reality the price hike is another example of greedflation. When a pub is busy more beer, other drinks and food is being sold and more profits are being made. A 20p a pint price hike will mean more profit.
Of course in a cost of living crisis many pubs are struggling but Stonegate is a huge pub group that doesn’t fit that.
Its more than time for the return of the Assize of Ale, where the price and quality of beer was checked by ale tasters. Transgressors were subject to legal sanction in times, the eighteenth century, when beer was more of an essential part of the daily diet than it is now. Even so there is a moral code involved, where prices and profits should be seen to be fair. Stonegate is missing the mark.
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