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Wine Vending Machines

Vending machines pending in Pennsylvania

by MorayJ on 06. Aug, 2010 in Gadgets & Paraphernalia

It’s the Japanese who blazed a trail for selling anything and everything from vending machines, but the Americans are catching up. Pennsylvania has gone hi-tech to keep it’s tough controls on selling alcohol, whilst allowing non state-owned supermarkets to sell it for the first time. To get hold of your favorite tipple you need to [...]

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Mandela, Wine and the John Barnes Rap

by Gavino on 11. Jun, 2010 in WOTW News

Yes, the World Cup kicks off today and wine retailers across the land are surely trying to find a way to drive sales through any kind of footballing link they can think of. Right? Actually no. Take a cursory look across the online landscape and you’ll see no mention of the World Cup at Majestic, [...]

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English Wine Prospers and Malcolm Gluck isn’t Happy

by Gavino on 03. Jun, 2010 in WOTW News

It’s English Wine Week again and it seems that this year the English wine industry is walking with a confident swagger. According to official figures released by English Wine Producers (the trade body) the number of bottles produced by English wineries jumped from 1.34 million in 2008 to 3.17 million in 2009. However serial miserabilist [...]

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“What do I have to do to get served around here?”

by Gavino on 30. May, 2010 in WOTW News

Another week passes and another Supermarket refuses to let shoppers buy wine. This time it was a 33 year old Cambridgeshire man denied by Tesco because he had no I.D. Sometimes life is beyond satire but sometimes we need the absurd to highlight, well, the absurd. Dear Readers, I hand you over to Roy Turse [...]

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Why can’t Tesco’s Sir Terry Leahy use Google Adwords?

by Gavino on 25. May, 2010 in WOTW News

Calling all Ad Agencies and Google AdWords specialists. Tesco is looking for some advice on how to turn AdWords campaigns off. The problem was identified last week when Sir Terry Leahy (Tesco’s CEO) announced that the supermarket’s customers are extremely concerned about the the impact of cheap alcohol on society. Sir Terry was quick to [...]

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BBC NEWS | England | Pensioners refused wine over ID

by Gavino on 28. Jan, 2009 in Just Plain Weird, WOTW News

I’m really at a loss with this one. Two pensioners from Essex were left stunned when they were asked to show photo identification to buy a bottle of wine. Jennifer Rogers went to her local One Stop convenience store with a 70-year-old friend.But a staff member refused the sale saying she needed photographic identification to [...]

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Tesco is the Anti-Christ. It's official.

by Gavino on 30. Oct, 2008 in Nonsense Packaging

Oh dear. Tesco, Tesco, Tesco.  What do you think that Terry Leahy drinks at home? Not this rubbish, that’s for sure. Tesco has unveiled a range of budget wines, packaged in one-litre Tetra Paks and priced at £2.89. The three-strong range, which includes a red, a white and a rosé, has been sourced from from [...]

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