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09-02-2013, 14:13
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Well, not a lot of interest from blog readers in “Dry January”, with no less than 46% having visited pubs ten or more times just to have a drink, and two-thirds having done it at least five times. Amongst this sample, pubgoing is clearly alive and well. However, as seen with other polls on here, there’s a distinct U-shape to the results, with 28% having done it just once or twice or not at all - although they may well have had a drink elsewhere.
As I said in a recent post (http://pubcurmudgeon.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/a-more-selective-appeal.html), people who want to go to pubs will continue to go to pubs. Whether the population as a whole will do the same is less certain.
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Well, not a lot of interest from blog readers in “Dry January”, with no less than 46% having visited pubs ten or more times just to have a drink, and two-thirds having done it at least five times. Amongst this sample, pubgoing is clearly alive and well. However, as seen with other polls on here, there’s a distinct U-shape to the results, with 28% having done it just once or twice or not at all - although they may well have had a drink elsewhere.
As I said in a recent post (http://pubcurmudgeon.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/a-more-selective-appeal.html), people who want to go to pubs will continue to go to pubs. Whether the population as a whole will do the same is less certain.
More... (http://pubcurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2013/02/wet-january.html)