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New Alcohol Selling Restrictions at Makro (Makro only)?


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I think this rumour comes from someone trying to buy between 2pm and 5pm.

Encountered many foreigners question why I could buy but not they when I had a license.

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4 minutes ago, PoorSucker said:

I think this rumour comes from someone trying to buy between 2pm and 5pm

No, it comes from a person who has been living in Thailand for more than 20 years. He is well aware of the official selling hours and he pointed out that he tried to buy during these hours.

 

Because I haven't heard elsewhere about that, I suspect (hope), it may have happened because of some kind of misinterpretation by a local store manager. 

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19 hours ago, Kwasaki said:

Why go Makro there expensive.

I agree, I buy  from my local mom and pop store, a box is 40b cheaper than Makro and I buy 10 boxes at a time and they throw in an extra for free.

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27 minutes ago, Bigz said:

Where is cheap? 

Mum & pop shops by the box to put in the fridge. 

A single Cold Chang is 50 baht. 

 

Posted
18 minutes ago, Lemsta69 said:

mom & pop shops don't sell real beer

Neither does MAKRO, other than Beer Lao if you are lucky, but even that is not real beer. 

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11 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

Here we go again another beer expert in the forum, I like what you called Thai swill it has won awards but I don't care about that I like I the taste couldn't care less what you like. 

beer expert? nah, just not a povvo

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2 minutes ago, Burma Bill said:

Neither does MAKRO, other than Beer Lao if you are lucky, but even that is not real beer. 

thanks for the heads up mate, I'll avoid it like the plague then. that, and I don't have a ute! 

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21 hours ago, pgrahmm said:

Just make more than one trip w/o a card,  changing cashier lanes; or more people.....

I don't drink beer, so 10 liters seems like a lot....

I don't drink beer either (think I must have used up my lifetime allotment in college). But i do usually stock up on the house box wine 4-6 boxes. No problem for me to visit three local stores to do the same.

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I have lived here for more than thirty years and have had no desire to shop at a Makro for at least twenty-five.  Shop somewhere else.

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Makro, dear posters, is a cash & carry outlet and is primarily there to cater to wholesale purchasers. They are probably restricted by law or maybe their own regulations at the very least to the quantities they can sell to none professional customers.

 

In fact, it's quite unusual for such an outlet to even serve the retail market.

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46 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

Mum & pop shops by the box to put in the fridge. 

A single Cold Chang is 50 baht. 

 

That's pretty much the same as buying a box in macro. Maybe a baht difference

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4 minutes ago, Bigz said:

That's pretty much the same as buying a box in macro. Maybe a baht difference

580 a box, buying one single ready cold beer out the fridge 50.

Makro is 20 kilos away. 

Mum and Pops

is around the corner. 

Even ready cold beer in 7-11 is 154 for 3 again just around the corner.

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6 minutes ago, CM Dad said:

I have lived here for more than thirty years and have had no desire to shop at a Makro for at least twenty-five.  Shop somewhere else.

It depends a lot on where you live. Here in Mukdahan, there isn't much choice when it comes to Western products other than the Makro.

 

Of course, I can buy beer everywhere. But most stores carry relatively old beer, while at the Makro it is usually reasonably fresh.

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