Ban on triple offers sees some shoppers buy more wine
The survey, conducted by Accolade Wines, found that shoppers were buying less wine during each visit to a store, but were buying wine more frequently than before.
The number of times so-called “light” shoppers bought wine on a visit to a store was up by a third, the survey concluded.
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Hide AdOverall, it found that wine purchases in Scotland fell by 3.1 per cent in the year to July 2012, resulting in 3.2 million fewer bottles of wine being sold. However, the figure for England and Wales, where there is no ban, was a fall of 2.8 per cent, a difference of just 0.3 per cent, according to the research.