South African shoppers stock up on booze as sales resume

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South African shoppers filled trolleys with cases of beer and cider and bottles of whiskey and wine on Monday as the government eased the coronavirus lockdown to allow the sale of alcohol to resume after a nine-week ban.

South Africa, which has one of the highest rates of alcohol consumption per capita in the world, banned the sale of liquor in late March to ease hospital workloads and prevent a rise in domestic violence related to alcohol abuse during lockdown.

“There is a significant amount of profit lost, we were losing turnover every day,” Jimmy Constantinou, who has been managing a liquor store in Johannesburg’s Alexandra township for six years, told Reuters inside the busy store. An estimated 117,600 jobs have been lost in the industry, with 13% of the craft beer sector in the process of shutting, while the wine industry was in severe distress, said Rico Basson, chief executive of Vinpro, a wine industry body.

 

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you don’t know whether this person owns a bar or restaurant. Why not report on all the Americans storming state buildings because they wanted to buy liquor. And people driving to different states that opened before theirs to purchase.

After what they've gone through, I'd keep a 90-day supply of smokes and booze in the house. It's probably better than currency.

Plenty of $$ for shopping carts full of booze.

Liquor stores in California never closed when COVID restrictions came into effect. Most likely in order to prevent increased hospitalizations from withdrawal sickness of the many alcohol dependent here.

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