I don’t accept the price increase on the M&S offering being related to the €1 increase on wine. If that really is the case then why has there been no 50c increase this time?
Maybe it wasn’t due to the wine tax, but it seems likely that it was. I would imagine that, at €12.50, this deal was already a loss leader for M&S, so I’m not surprised it went up in cost.
The €1 M&S price rise came around four months after the wine tax was imposed. The 50c increase in duty only came into effect last week.
Thursday 24 October, 2013 at 10:28 pm
I don’t accept the price increase on the M&S offering being related to the €1 increase on wine. If that really is the case then why has there been no 50c increase this time?
Friday 25 October, 2013 at 12:00 pm
Maybe it wasn’t due to the wine tax, but it seems likely that it was. I would imagine that, at €12.50, this deal was already a loss leader for M&S, so I’m not surprised it went up in cost.
The €1 M&S price rise came around four months after the wine tax was imposed. The 50c increase in duty only came into effect last week.