What to do when you are sitting because of the Corona pandemic to home? In the United States, of the one or the other seems to have found the answer: get drunk. Like the TV channel CNN reported boom in the sale of Alcohol. Also in Switzerland the retailers Coop notes a “noticeable increase in the demand for alcoholic beverages”, as it says on request – both for beer, wine as well as spirits.
Also, the Online drinks retailer of Drinks.ch the Download is running. “Our turnover has tripled,” says owner Alexander Curiger (32) to VIEW. Although the deliveries to catering and trade broke trade. The will, however, be made with the orders of the Private more than betting. “Overall, we are better than before the crisis.”
in addition to alcohol Drinks provides.ch also soft drinks and glasses – and also more than in the past. The staff at the Distribution centre had already been more than doubled. Especially high-risk groups like to order: among the over-65-Year increase in deliveries, according to Curiger to 28 percent.
drink beer or bunkers?
Other retailers are not able to confirm this trend. Aldi about no significant increase in alcohol sales. At Denner, it means that it is too early for a comparison with on-the-Corona-times. And “Drinks of the World”, although recorded a small increase in Online trade. The sales in the shops broken into, The beverage retailer is in the stations present, where a lot less people than usual on the road.
An increase in the sale of alcohol, however, does not necessarily Mr and Mrs watch Swiss now deeper into the glass. Because in the Bars and Restaurants nothing is served, it tends to be the usual evening beer in your own home. And: it May be that the wine is stashed, too, as if it were toilet paper.
Blue cross is expecting more alcohol sick
The blue cross, the addicts advises, expecting, but in the long term, with a more Alcoholic, as speaker Philip says Free. “The awareness that one has a Problem with the consumer, often comes only when life is restored.” The blue cross doesn’t list any additional requests. But already last week warned that the Corona-crisis-creating a “perfect environment for drug abuse”.
Also for alcohol-ill people, the current crisis is very difficult, says Free. “They have now massively more problems.” The blue cross has further expanded its telephone and digital consulting and Advisory services, and performs according to Free, in urgent cases, personal interviews.
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