{"id":652160,"date":"2010-02-02T17:41:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T22:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10001419"},"modified":"2010-02-02T17:44:08","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T22:44:08","slug":"we-are-too-poor-for-fancy-alcohol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/652160","title":{"rendered":"We Are Too Poor For Fancy Alcohol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/020210-004-cocktail-thumb-300x200-36600.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>The numbers are in for liquor sales in 2009, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-02-02\/liquor-sales-stagnate-as-u-s-consumers-turn-to-cheaper-drinks.html\">last year had the smallest increase in sales since 2001<\/a>, reports Bloomberg. What&#8217;s worse (if you own a high-end liquor company), sales shifted toward the products on the cheaper end of the spectrum, and people bought less at restaurants and other public places. But we&#8217;re not actually drinking less, it turns out&#8211;we&#8217;re just doing more entertaining at home.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-02-02\/liquor-sales-stagnate-as-u-s-consumers-turn-to-cheaper-drinks.html\">&#8220;Liquor Sales Stagnate as U.S. Consumers Turn to Cheaper Drinks&#8221;<\/a> [BusinessWeek]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The numbers are in for liquor sales in 2009, and last year had the smallest increase in sales since 2001, reports Bloomberg. What&#8217;s worse (if you own a high-end liquor company), sales shifted toward the products on the cheaper end of the spectrum, and people bought less at restaurants and other public places. But we&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2759,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2JEI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}