Wetherspoons closes more pubs in UK despite £2billion in sales

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1. What’s the news here? (And Jesus what an awful source)

   Company sells sites. Company closes a few sites due to commercial reasons I.e not bringing in another revenue to make them viable

   Company opens new sites too

2. I stopped going to weatherspoons entirely. The whole appeal was cheap food.

3. About 15 years ago my friends father owned a brewery in Shropshire. He sold his ales to local pubs. Wetherspoons contacted him one day, asked for 30,000 pints. He was overjoyed, they signed the contractual paperwork and he got to work, Wetherspoons won’t pay upfront or deposit because they have leverage, i’m sure you can see where this is going. Due date comes, it’s all kegged up and Wetherspoons tell him they’re having supply issues and can’t pick it up at the moment and will pick up and pay same day sometime soon.

   Months go buy as he stores the ale for them effectively for free, taking up valuable space, the ales expiration date is closing in. He gets a lawyer, they fire off a CCJ to Wetherspoons for payment. Wetherspoons reply that they’ll fight the CCJ in court and they’ll strong arm him with better lawyers and win, because they are absolutely positive that during discovery they will find that a single procedure was not followed correctly in the brewing of his ale that nullifies the whole contract, and they won’t purchase the ale at all.

   His other option is that they’ll purchase the ale when it’s got a week to go until it expires for basically cost-of-production, and he can either take it or leave it. They have the logistical ability to roll out all 30,000 pints across the country and get it sold as a “special ale” within a week. He took the offer.

   This is how Wetherspoons pints are so cheap, specifically the ales. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk, and yes I do still drink in Wetherspoons, it’s very cheap which seems to be the foremost priority of drinkers these days.

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