Feeding tourism on the German-Austrian border has received a brother: Pawn Tourism. The reason: In Austria, a beer box with 20 empty reusable bottles has been brought 3.90 euros more since the beginning of February than in Germany.
It is said that entire trailers with boxes have since been driven across the border. What seems to be a bargain and Brouwer costs money and is again increasing the debate about a pedical increase in Germany.
- In particular, the Austrian brewing industry has increased the bottle deposits from nine to 20 cents to date. In Germany it is eight cents. Moreover, the beer box in Austria has been twice as high as in Germany.
- You do not see a conventional deposit bottle on which side of the border it was sold, nor from which brewery it comes. Where the empty bottles go back from the trade is usually determined by the general brewery -specific beer boxes.
- The problem touches the brewers and beverages manufacturers who sell on both sides of the border. If one of their boxes and bottles are purchased in Germany and returned to Austria, the 3.90 euros that the customer wins in their pocket are missing.
- In Germany, too, a debate has been smoking on a pedical increase for years, which is re -initiated by the neighbors’ steps. The background is that the down payment has not been increased for decades. But a change brings various problems. On the one hand, the brewers are delivered that customers consider them a price increase.
Moreover, in such a case, all bottles and possibly boxes in circulation are suddenly worth more. With around four billion bottles in circulation, hundreds of million euros are quickly centered.
- Incidentally, the situation has been very different since the start of the year at the disposable payment in Austria. On the one hand, this is 25 cents at the same level as in Germany, and because the bottles on the two sides of the border differ, they can only be returned to the country of origin.
“People try to enrich themselves”
The effect is still new, but the breweries are already alerted. “In the first few days, the tendency was catastrophic,” says Christian Thiel van de Schönramer -Brewery in Peater. It is 13 kilometers from here to the border. “People try to enrich themselves, at the expense of the brewery and trade. I know a case when someone with a trailer with 50 boxes drove forward on a small drink market. But he didn’t accept that. “
Dealers would have the right to only withdraw usual amounts of bottles and boxes and to reject the withdrawal of products that they do not offer.
Source: Krone
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