Link: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-10-07/california-wine-glut-sends-premium-bottles-to-costco-aldi-kroger-at-bargain-prices

Couple this with the empty lines for food trucks at all the big music festivals this year and it’s clear that people on the whole are consuming less…gluttonously.

Perfect timing.- I need to take up drinking alcohol so I can be in a stupor for the rest of Hair Commandant's term in office.

I bet you used to sell a lot to Canada.

Twas my first thought too

People are consuming less... because they're fuckin' broke

I think it's a world wine glut. Here in NZ there have been unpicked grapes for the last 3 years as it was more expensive to pick then to let them rot. There have been vineyards wholly pulled out in the last year or two.

in general younger people arnt doing it for other reasons.

I think alcohol is going out of fashion generally, like people used to flaunt their favorite rye as a way to show sophistication, now people consider not drinking a sign of sophistication.

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Europe as well. Supermarkets still try to peddle US wine here, but it is much less prevalent than it once was.

What if I’m sophisticated, but I also need to drown out the horrors of modern society?

"Hair Commandant"...brilliant!

Well if you have a billion dollars you do ketamine, clearly.

Kink is also right there, best done sober and it will absolutely clear your mind.

I shoot heroin into my taint.

Can confirm, kink is great

Whatever the reason, this is “probably one of the best times I’ve seen in my near 30-year history in the industry for the consumer,”

Alcoholic.

90% of alcohol revenue is from alcoholics.

I'm curious, where more specifically?