LETTER: Huge cost of alcohol bans
Loss of sales cost the alcohol industry about 30% of its opportunities in 2020
Just over a year ago none of us could have imagined just how dramatically our world would change. The arrival of Covid-19 in SA was met with an announcement by the national government that the country would be locked down from March 27 2020, initially for a period of 21 days. Businesses were closed, people were confined to their homes — many without any income — and alcohol and cigarette sales were banned.
It was a dark time for SA, and while most of us appreciated the fact that lockdown was protecting our health, we had no idea that the challenges we were facing, as individuals and businesses, would still exist a year later...
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