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The lousy business on the outskirts of the Wiesn: Oktoberfest special prices for beer - supermarket provides justification

2022-09-21T05:50:52.035Z


The lousy business on the outskirts of the Wiesn: Oktoberfest special prices for beer - supermarket provides justification Created: 09/21/2022, 06:59 am By: Andrea Stinglwagner The Edeka receipt from Munich's Tilman Schaich shows a crate of beer for 60 euros. © Private Many traders away from the Theresienwiese use the Oktoberfest to raise beer prices. This now causes trouble for a Munich playe


The lousy business on the outskirts of the Wiesn: Oktoberfest special prices for beer - supermarket provides justification

Created: 09/21/2022, 06:59 am

By: Andrea Stinglwagner

The Edeka receipt from Munich's Tilman Schaich shows a crate of beer for 60 euros.

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Many traders away from the Theresienwiese use the Oktoberfest to raise beer prices.

This now causes trouble for a Munich player.

Munich - Sure, the beer at the Wiesn is expensive - everyone knows that.

Recently, however, beer buyers have to pay special Oktoberfest prices in the supermarket: 2.92 euros for a bottle of light beer - that's how much Edeka near Theresienwiese has recently been charging.

Rip off, scold the customers!

Isn't there a beer price brake?

Oktoberfest: Edeka in Schwanthalerstraße drives up beer prices

Munich-based Tilman Schaich, known for the "speculated" citizens' rental initiative, is annoyed: "The E-Center on Schwanthalerstrasse apparently takes the Oktoberfest as an opportunity to cash in heavily, regardless of residents and regular customers." From one day to the next others the bottled beer price was raised to 2.92 euros.

A carrier would have cost 60 euros with a deposit – three euros per bottle!

When Schaich realized “the usury”, he confronted those responsible for the market.

He simply said that the reason for this was the Oktoberfest.

Schaich complained: A supermarket has to guarantee the supply of the residents.

The answer came back that one could complain to the head office... Tilman Schaich says he returned the crate of beer.

He's pissed off: "In times of crisis, when everyone has to tighten their belts, that doesn't reflect well on the management." It wouldn't be a problem if the supermarket up the street, where pedestrians flock to Oktoberfest, had a kiosk expensive beer would operate.

"But in the normal supermarket in the basement that's all sorts of things."


Annoyed by the high beer prices in the supermarket during the Wiesn: Tilman Schaich.

© Markus Goetzfried

Edeka justifies prices with security and personnel costs during the Wiesn

Our editors did some research: In fact, the individual bottles of Augustiner Hell or Edelstoff, Paulaner Hell, Spaten or Franziskaner at Edeka in the Schwanthalerhöhe Forum cost 2.92 euros, with a deposit of 3 euros.

The Paulaner Münchner Hell carrier costs "only" 40 euros.

And there are also cheaper crates there – 20 bottles of Paulaner Oktoberfest beer for about 17.99 euros.

The press office of Edeka Corporate Communications justifies the high single bottle prices with increased security and personnel costs during the Wiesn.

The question remains: is the market allowed to screw up the price at all?

Yes, says Sonja Neumeier, legal adviser at the Bavarian Consumer Advice Center in Munich.

“Basically, supermarkets are free to set their prices.

As a rule, this is done after weighing up supply and demand.” From a legal point of view, there is no usury here: “In some cases, the price charged in the relevant Edeka branch is more than twice the usual market price, but an emergency situation is not exploited in the beer price.

Nobody is dependent on the beer from the Edeka branch.

But that is necessary for usury.” There is therefore no “beer price brake”.


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Not only in the Edeka is the beer more expensive during the Wiesn

Many retailers rely on the gold donkey Wiesn - as does the snack bar at the main train station, which charges four euros for a bottle of Augustiner, or the shop on Bayerstraße, which charges 3.50 euros.

Other supermarkets stick to more moderate prices.

Rewe at the main train station charges 1.49 euros for a bottle of Augustiner and 1.55 euros for an Augustiner Oktoberfest beer.

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Source: merkur

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