Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Communion Wine - Bad for Business

This week`s Church Times (Anglican) newspaper has a report that as of this week, the SPCK Christian bookshop chain will no longer be able to sell communion wine .

The 15% proof Vino Sacro can no longer be bought because of new Government legislation (yawn) which means each single SPCK shop would need to have a £600 licence for selling alcohol and a mandatory two staff members in attendance at all times.
The SPCK shop in our nearest big City is a small shop with one staff member. The costs of employing another member of staff simply to meet the new legislation would be prohibitive and definitely not cost-effective.

I never thought the day would come when Communion was bad for a business......
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2 comments:

Laura said...

unbelievable!

Huw Raphael said...

Behold one reason CSL thought teetotallers were a bad thing.