Brut-al
George Leppla
Looking at the advertisement for the local grocery store here in
Shreveport, I see they have Korbel Brut Champagne on sale for $9.99 a
bottle. Same stuff they sell on the cruise ships for $27 to $32.
And the cruise lines wonder why travel agents aren't sending as many
bottles of champagne as we used to.
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Charles
<geo...@cruisemaster.com> wrote:
> BRUT-AL.
>
> Looking at the advertisement for the local grocery store here in
> Shreveport, I see they have Korbel Brut Champagne on sale for $9.99 a
> bottle. Same stuff they sell on the cruise ships for $27 to $32.
>
> And the cruise lines wonder why travel agents aren't sending as many
> bottles of champagne as we used to.
It is the same for the wine they sell. However this should be no
surprise. That is the same that your local restaurants do. The markup
is one of the ways that they make a profit. A three times markup is the
standard for less expensive wine or champagne. The markup for pricier
wine or champagne will be less as that helps sell the more expensive
stuff.
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Charles
J Carnaghie
An old rule of thumb in the food service business is that material costs
should never be more than 1/3 of the sell price. If the bottle of wine
costs the ship $9, the sell price would be around $27. However, in the
volume that they purchase wine and spirits, I would be surprised if that
$27 bottle costs them more than $6.
May everyone have calm seas and gentle winds in 2010,
Cheers,
John in LaLaLand (On the Left Coast)
joseph f Morris
buy thousands of bottles..
Drink hearty (grin)
Live today...tomorrow may never come.
Charles
Morris <JOSE...@webtv.net> wrote:
> What is the wholesale price. the 9.99 still makes a profit. The ships
> buy thousands of bottles..
> Drink hearty (grin)
The wholesale price on bottles sold at liquor stores is usually 65% of
retail price. Don't know if restaurants or cruise lines get the same
wholesale price as liquor stores.
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Charles
Tom K
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Cruise ships probably buy their liquor using their at-sea, or overseas legal
entities, or something like that, which may avoid a lot of the federal taxes
on the liquor. If the wholesale price is 65%, a good portion of that has to
be taxes, which (guessing) they very likely can either mostly avoid, or at
least partially avoid.
I've gotta figure that they pay prices much lower than restaurants.
--Tom
Charles
<tkan...@optonline.net> wrote:
> Cruise ships probably buy their liquor using their at-sea, or overseas legal
> entities, or something like that, which may avoid a lot of the federal taxes
> on the liquor. If the wholesale price is 65%, a good portion of that has to
> be taxes, which (guessing) they very likely can either mostly avoid, or at
> least partially avoid.
> I've gotta figure that they pay prices much lower than restaurants.
I don't know if it is true but I have heard that the cruise lines do
get their alcohol duty free and avoid taxes. Also since they order a
high volume I would guess get a better wholesale price than a single
restaurant or single liquor store.
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Charles
Nonny
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. . . and here I just thought they filled the empty bottles and
recorked them like I do here at the house.
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Nonny
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-hh
> In article <4b426905$0$22543$607ed...@cv.net>, Tom K
In either event, then their likely price for a $10 retail is around
$5, so the 3x markup would put it at around $15, although if we apply
their rate of cork fee, it would have been around $20.
-hh
Brian K
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