Drinks prices in the old days..

[WinnieTheKhwai]

I wonder what drinks prices were like in the old days..

Found a picture: Sang Som Cokes for 25 Baht!!

Oh wait.. Nope, guess that was just last week.

Still pretty good I guess.

[Rooo]

Moved to Pub.

[ATF]

The classic was 3 big bottles of Chang for 100 baht. Chang demolished Singha with that marketing ploy.

[siampolee]

Ah, the long since gone Kloster at 60.Baht a bottle.

My god that was the most expensive premium beer some 20 years since but a nice drink.

As an aside I can recall one went out with 1500 baht in the pocket ate well drank well and even got poontang too plus a little bit of change left for the bus home.

Me, ''Cheap Charlie number ten in those days.''

Edited January 22, 2015 by siampolee

[ThePlant]

25B for a Sangsom and Coke isn't going to break anyone's bank. Seems like good common sense business to me. I bet they get a lot of punters in, taking those prices.

You can still get about 28 shots from a 70cl bottle which costs about 220B ( less trade wholesale)

28 x 25B = 700B gross per bottle - maybe 400B net per bottle - so thats a tidy profit in anyone's book if you can knock out 5 or 6 bottles in a night.

Makes one wonder just what these fools running these bars in BKK (especially in Lower Suk) charging 150B for a shot of cheap vodka/gin/rum with absolutely no one sat in them are thinking of...They say running a bar and making a success of it is tough but only if you are a totally greedy bell end with no idea about basic business doing so.

Sadly though booze has been the prime target taxwise for every tinpot government Thailand has had to suffer since the mid to early 1990s looking to drag as much into their coffers which they can skim from, to line their personal stashes during their short time in office.

I was just talking to Fat Dave about this the other night and the days when a big Chang could be had from 7-11 for 30-35B feel a heck of a long time ago....Even Smirnoff has jumped from 800 last year to 960 this year in 7 and Family.

[mrtoad]

Anyone remember cathouse in Nana where it was 200 baht for drink as much as you want between 4 and 7 think it was Chang, Singha? I'm going back 10 or 11 years ago.

The member Lensta will remover those days.....

[chrisinth]

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The classic was 3 big bottles of Chang for 100 baht. Chang demolished Singha with that marketing ploy.

I remember when Chang was first introduced in the mid 90's, it was 18 baht for a big bottle so we were getting 5 x bottles for 100 baht. This was an aggressive (and very successful) sales drive by the brewery.

It stayed at 18 baht for quite a long time, when I left Pattaya in 1999, the price had risen sharply to 22 baht for a big bottle.................

Edit: It was the only beer in Thailand that ever gave me a 'chemical' hangover. However, in their favour, it was not the reason why I gave up alcohol in 1999.

Edited January 22, 2015 by chrisinth

[welsh1]

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The classic was 3 big bottles of Chang for 100 baht. Chang demolished Singha with that marketing ploy.

I remember when Chang was first introduced in the mid 90's, it was 18 baht for a big bottle so we were getting 5 x bottles for 100 baht. This was an aggressive (and very successful) sales drive by the brewery.

It stayed at 18 baht for quite a long time, when I left Pattaya in 1999, the price had risen sharply to 22 baht for a big bottle.................

Edit: It was the only beer in Thailand that ever gave me a 'chemical' hangover. However, in their favour, it was not the reason why I gave up alcohol in 1999.

Dont remember them changs being that price,,, But that probaly explains why i was stumbling around pattaya,,falling asleep, wetting my pants and eyeing up lady boys in the 90s,,, than God i dont drink Chang any more

[ThePlant]

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The classic was 3 big bottles of Chang for 100 baht. Chang demolished Singha with that marketing ploy.

I remember when Chang was first introduced in the mid 90's, it was 18 baht for a big bottle so we were getting 5 x bottles for 100 baht. This was an aggressive (and very successful) sales drive by the brewery.

It stayed at 18 baht for quite a long time, when I left Pattaya in 1999, the price had risen sharply to 22 baht for a big bottle.................

Edit: It was the only beer in Thailand that ever gave me a 'chemical' hangover. However, in their favour, it was not the reason why I gave up alcohol in 1999.

Dont remember them changs being that price,,, But that probaly explains why i was stumbling around pattaya,,falling asleep, wetting my pants and eyeing up lady boys in the 90s,,, than God i dont drink Chang any more

It used to be dirt cheap, hence the reason why many Thais look down on Chang a little these days and see Leo as the 'posh one'. The price sort of crept up over the years then levelled out around 27/30B for a good while until Thaksin began his campaign of gouging the public in any way he could think of....

[crickets]

Still a pitance compared to australia. 135 baht for a bottle sang song rum is a steal at tesco

[Gonsalviz]

I like Amarit. A long time ago so I don't remember the price. Maybe 20-25 baht in a bar.

[marko kok prong]

The classic was 3 big bottles of Chang for 100 baht. Chang demolished Singha with that marketing ploy.

I don't think Singha have done themselves any favours reducing the large bottle from 630ml to 550 ml but keeping the price the same,i remember back in Oz when cascade changed the stubbie from 375ml to 345 and kept the price the same,there was outcry and eventually they reversed the descision,i cannot see Singha doing that,but i wonder if it has had an impact on sales,whilst i don't rate any Thai beers ,Singha gives me the least worst hangover,with a pure beer such as cascade or european beers i never have one.