Tough Year, Now What?

Beer Business Daily August 19, 2010Tough Year, Now What?Dear Client:There's no doubt this has been a tough year so far. Only four and a half months left until it's over. For the first six months of the year, beer volumes are down in the two largest off-premise channels, supermarkets (-2.1%) and convenience stores (-3.1%), says SymphonyIRI. Some of this volume, it is thought, is moving to the drug channel as Walgreens gets back into the beer business nationally, and some