{"id":1997,"date":"2011-12-11T11:52:38","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T11:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=1997"},"modified":"2011-12-11T11:52:38","modified_gmt":"2011-12-11T11:52:38","slug":"the-tesco-of-pubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=1997","title":{"rendered":"“The Tesco of Pubs”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I picked up, via my twatter feed, this article in the Daily Fail<\/a>. Now I’m not usually one for the Fail, but this article actually caught my interest, both because it had pub content, and because it mentioned a pub I’ve been meaning to visit for years<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The article in the main is concerned with the JD Wetherspoon chain, and if they’re ‘doing a tesco’ by driving the other pubs out of business or not. From the article:<\/p>\n

\nAndrew Gayle, 49, is facing the prospect of a Wetherspoon opening in the former library building next to his pub, the Waggon & Horses in Oldbury, a small industrial town near Birmingham.<\/p>\n

Oldbury is not a big place and there are already four pubs,\u2019 said Gayle, 49, who has been an SA Brains tenant there for 12 years. \u2018I complained to the council but they took no notice. Times are hard enough anyway and some of the pubs are going to have to close \u2013 that\u2019s the effect Wetherspoon has.\u2019<\/p>\n

At least one pub closed in nearby Stourbridge after a second Wetherspoon pub opened there, while another is up for sale.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Now, I’d be ready to believe some pubs being driven out of business by a ‘spoons. Love them or hate them, you can’t argue with the fact that they serve Ok food and usually decent beer at a low price. I’d question however, that they’ll impact the traditional pub like the Wagon & Horses. A spokesman for CAMRA said:<\/p>\n

\nWetherspoon can have a halo effect where other pubs benefit from people coming into the area, and if pubs can\u2019t compete on price they can certainly compete on atmosphere, events and offering a more cosy, traditional pub experience.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Which I’d agree with. I do use wetherspoons, and they have their good points, but I much prefer a proper, traditional pub- as previously discussed here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I picked up, via my twatter feed, this article in the Daily Fail. Now I’m not usually one for the Fail, but this article actually caught my interest, both because it had pub content, and because it mentioned a pub I’ve been meaning to visit for years. The article in the main is concerned with … Continue reading “The Tesco of Pubs”<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}