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Grape wine replacing vyatskih counters with vodka
The shift from spirits to the lungs can talk about wealth vyatchan who can afford to buy more expensive wine.
This statement was made deputy head of the department of trade and consumer services to the Government of the Kirov region Vyacheslav Pentin. According to his office, the first three months of this year (compared with the first quarter last) share a strong alcohol sales declined by polpunkta and amounted to 44.9 per cent. A grape wines have to enjoy strong demand and took to the 38.2 percent mark. 4.6 percent of sales came on champagne and sparkling wines and 1.5 - for cognacs.
Another trend noted Pentinym: vyatskih vodka producers are increasingly close neighbors, are now one in five of the bottle to drink stalls kirovskih stores - not of local origin. Good or bad - is difficult to say. On the one hand, the range is becoming wider, with the customer an opportunity to choose. On the other - it is impossible to trace the quality of imported vodka, which was done in laboratories kirovskih a couple of years ago. But since 2006, in accordance with federal law prohibited conduct such inspections, now accounted for only trust securities accompanying nonresident products.
With the introduction of compulsory licensing specialists predicted that the number of alcohol retailers will decline sharply, but this did not happen. The number of outlets, which permitted the sale of alcoholic beverages, remained at virtually the same level: now in the region realization wine drinks organizations engaged in 1305, hmelnye drinks sold in 4216 shops, cafes and restaurants. Stabilizing vyatskogo spirits market, according to Pentina, said that any abrupt change expected here soon not have to. Vyatka a market alcohol, and each of the players took it a niche that excludes and "eating" small traders larger. Incidentally, the lion's share of sales accounted for Consumer, which sells 44 percent of all alcohol. This is because it has a ramified network of shops throughout the area. Perhaps that is why areas ahead of regional center in the use of heating: the ratio in this "competition" 60 to 40 in favor vyatskih territories.
Pentin also said that since the beginning of work on the new rules (from 2007) in connection with various violations were issued to 249 prescriptions and only 11 times suspended license - each time for violating the order of the declaration. It is now quite hard and requires sellers of alcohol detailed quarterly report: how many of which were sold and how much what left. This, incidentally, allows you to track and the situation with "left" and vodka samogonom in each municipality. And if somewhere official selling alcohol decreased sharply, though not have to drink less, then moving to "left" vodka and samogon. And this is an occasion alert police.

Andrei Andreyev