Video: Mad rush for booze - stores swamped as alcohol stocks fly off shelves in minutes!

[Walter Travolta]

2 hours ago, jaiyen said:

Nice to see that there are plenty of people who think that booze is a priority. All while there are so many people who cant afford a meal.

Start a thread on that then ???? Seeing as this thread is about booze, thats what people are talking about

[johng]

3 minutes ago, Airbagwill said:

Now who says alcohol isn't addictive????

No one,   but its a "legal drug"  that many "governments" around the world allow to be sold and reap huge amounts of money in tax from the sales  while at the same time  naturally occurring plants and extracts are deemed illegal !  

[Walter Travolta]

26 minutes ago, murraynz said:

But in a westetn country,there would have been yelling and fighting. Gauranteed.....

Fact - Black (no pun intended) Friday is ace to watch from your armchair

[Walter Travolta]

So whats the Bobby Moore then? I was under the impression alcohol was back on yesterday (sunday) between the hours of 11-2 and 5-6 but in 7eleven at about 9pm thais were openly buying 3 packs of Leo as if all was normal! Made me think it was 1 rule for farangs and 1 for Thais

 

Anyhoo, if there are any fit thai sorts reading this, all those numbers are my LINE ID ???? 

[TigerandDog]

Anybody notice that nobody was taking the Chang beer, just the Leo & Singha.

[johng]

1 minute ago, TigerandDog said:

Anybody notice that nobody was taking the Chang beer, just the Leo & Singha.

I would take Chang over Leo  since they both seemed to have changed something a few years ago

Leo got much worse and Chang got a bit better IMHO.

[josephbloggs]

11 minutes ago, Walter Travolta said:

So whats the Bobby Moore then? I was under the impression alcohol was back on yesterday (sunday) between the hours of 11-2 and 5-6 but in 7eleven at about 9pm thais were openly buying 3 packs of Leo as if all was normal! Made me think it was 1 rule for farangs and 1 for Thais

 

Anyhoo, if there are any fit thai sorts reading this, all those numbers are my LINE ID ???? 

No anti farang conspiracy.  Selling hours are 11am to 2pm and 5pm to 10pm.

[Walter Travolta]

2 minutes ago, josephbloggs said:

No anti farang conspiracy.  Selling hours are 11am to 2pm and 5pm to 10pm.

The conspiracy was just toungue in cheek haha but yeah cool I thought the cut off time was 6pm so that answers that, cheers 

[gunghang]

I just skipped to the last page of the replies. I hope I'm not making too big a fool of myself when I ask:  Has the booze ban been lifted in parts of Thailand?  Here in Buriram province, it was lifted on Sunday, May 3.  One store sold, the other was busy putting alcohol back on the shelf. Then today, Monday May 4, the ban was back.  No alcohol until June.

Edited May 4, 2020 by gunghang

[vogie]

Somebody must see something in Leo that I don't see, certainly not worth fighting for, we played murder ball in the army with more grace than what those idiots were displaying.

[billd766]

7 hours ago, steven100 said:

alcoholics  !   that's all they are .....  

Not really. I would call them prudent drinkers. They are just building a stock for moderate drinking at home.

 

If the government had not made the ban, extended it, and extended it again, and then cancelled the ban leaving it up to the provincial governors this would never have happened.

 

Who knows if they will flip flop again?

[Magenta408]

It looked like an uncontrolled orgy. 

[johng]

11 minutes ago, gunghang said:

Here in Buriram province

 

[TKDfella]

What a splendid show of utter disregard for...well, everything...except booze, of course.

[PJPom]

Went into Tesco in Ao nang yesterday just  after 11am and the car park was nearly empty, a few scooters and maybe three cars. I had gone to get some alcohol and expected the place to be crowded however nobody in the alcohol area and only one girl on the checkout, bought my beer and scotch and out in five minutes. Same thing today at lunchtime, nobody buying beer even though cartons were prominently displayed near the checkout, methinks another exaggerated media report, not unusual.

Edited May 4, 2020 by PJPom
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[rayw]

It reminds me of when I was a child back in the UK and helped work on a farm.  When the swill was tipped into the trough all the pigs came clammouring and pushing to get their fill.  So idiotically crazy.  I have been without any of my loved red wine I like with my meals for over a month now but I am deliberately being sensible and waiting till later this week when this stupid panic  oigs to trouhg like rush ends. 

 

Mind you I thought the ban on alcohol was really stupid and ognorant anyway particularly after the songkran week where at least there was some semblance of reasoning to ban the sales of it during that single week.  But there were already laws about social distancing and gatherings of more than a few people anyway so why did they not just invoke that law rather than banning the sale of alcohol ??  As someone said earlier why did they then not ban liek BBQ charcoal and BBQ foods too??  Sorry but it was ridiculaous IMHO.  Sometimes I despair at how ignorant Governments can be and no not just here in Thailand  as some of the moaners seem to claim but the far more gross stupidity and corruption we see in Washington and indeed London Governments too is even far far worse.  

[tomauasia]

Yes forget the starving l want to get drunk. Thais.

[samsensam]

 

so happy i couldn't care less about alcohol. ????

[johng]

1 minute ago, samsensam said:

 

so happy i couldn't care less about alcohol. ????

Well wait till they ban something you do care about.

[Lacessit]

Er - what happened to social distancing when they were piling on for the last few cases of LEO?

Nothing like that in Big C Chiang Rai, all very orderly.

Mind you, if I lived in Bangkok I'd probably want to stay permanently drunk too.

[sambum]

7 hours ago, KhunBENQ said:

This registered business owners is a thing of the past as well as the "more than 10 liter" rule.

Never seen a buyer pass the checkout at Makro before 11 AM.

Usually I hurry to make it out before 11.

 

Recently I caused some raised eyebrows with the "vine winegar" at the checkout.

After some palavar with fellow staff the cashier was convinced it's non alcoholic

Since long a Ritter chocolate "Rum Raisins Hazelnuts" has vanished from the shelves.

Can't remember ever having seen chocolate/confectionery with alcohol(?).

Boxes of liqueur chocolates used to be very popular at Christmas in the UK:-

 

[Estrada]

I thought all contact sports were still not allowed.

[sambum]

2 hours ago, chilli42 said:

So I guess I conclude from this that the financial hardship of the lock down were not that widespread.  Nice to see people have plenty of money to spend.

Wholesalers! Shopkeepers! Mom & Pop shops!

[kidneyw]

Looks like the 5,000 baht handout came in handy.

[stuandjulie]

19 minutes ago, sambum said:

Wholesalers! Shopkeepers! Mom & Pop shops!

And they would not need it if no-one had any money to buy it from them then would they, it is called supply and demand.

[richard_smith237]

9 hours ago, Thailand said:

Pretty simple explanation, continued flip-flops form the PTB.

Agreed - if there is a spike in Covid-19 cases as a result of the failure customers to socially isolate while panic-buying the Government who make this policies only have themselves to blame.

 

The deliberate 'ban' of anything consumed in the privacy of ones home is utterly ridiculous and creates a situation such as this which could so easily have otherwise been avoided, a non-event.

 

I'll thought out knee-jerk reactions by untrained people lacking in critical thought - the Booze ban was always an extremely silly thing to implement when there are far more serious issues to tackle.

 

 

[hotandsticky]

10 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

Agreed - if there is a spike in Covid-19 cases as a result of the failure customers to socially isolate while panic-buying the Government who make this policies only have themselves to blame.

 

The deliberate 'ban' of anything consumed in the privacy of ones home is utterly ridiculous and creates a situation such as this which could so easily have otherwise been avoided, a non-event.

 

I'll thought out knee-jerk reactions by untrained people lacking in critical thought - the Booze ban was always an extremely silly thing to implement when there are far more serious issues to tackle.

 

 

 

 

I disagree about the booze ban as far as the Songkran period was concerned - it was the only way to try and control the Thais.

 

After 20th April the ban was unnecessary and the authorities could simply have focused on preventing group gatherings.

[Mayhem11]

It is fascinating how a topic like this excites the Baptist ministers.

[OneeyedJohn]

1 hour ago, Lacessit said:

Er - what happened to social distancing when they were piling on for the last few cases of LEO?

Nothing like that in Big C Chiang Rai, all very orderly.

Mind you, if I lived in Bangkok I'd probably want to stay permanently drunk too.

Were u the farang that snatched two boxes of Mont Clair in front of my wife, leaving just the one box for her.

 

Pisss poor behaviour.

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