jbryant

So when did that rule change then? Just a month or three back the Esso/Tesco metro station near me has started selling booze. Not bad if I need a couple of 4-packs on the way home. Now I've noticed that the local Texaco has a banner outside saying it's now an off-licence!

I thought that there were rules in place that meant booze could not be sold with petrol? I remember an independent petrol station getting closed down way back in my student days at Oxford, and everyone thought that was because they sold beer when they shouldn't have done.

Anyone with any insight into this?

Cheers
Joolz

PS. I'll have a tankful of Stella please

ADP

seems that we are catching up with our foreign neighbours, have been able to buy booze in frog garages for ages

wiltshire_boy

Still banned at Motorway services though.

Nick VR4

Yeah Garage in Aylesbury Texaco sells booze too
I think its pub hours only

Wurzel

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I can by booze in our petrol stations 24/7!!!!

Nick VR4

parts of Europe and USA have been doing this for years

ScoobyWon't

Just about every petrol station in Tenerife has a bar serving alcohol built in. Normally frequented by the local taxi drivers.

BMWhere?

I seem to remember seeing something in the news about a month ago that some motorway service station had gone to the European court with a fair trade case - saying it was unfiar competition that they could not sell booze - they won the case and now service stations across the UK can sell booze subject to off-licence regulations!

Although as Wurzel says, booze 24/7 here in Germany - I'll be stopping off for a 6-pack on the way to a party tonight

dogmaul

been able to buy booze in our bp and sainsburys petrol station for well over a year

Brun

Booze in a Harrogate shell for nearly three years or more.

hail-hail

My local Esso now had lovelrly beer for sale!!!

Pete Croney

Some motorway service stations in France have bars