This item is about the money you can save drinking at home instead of at a bar. I’ll keep this brief because, let’s be honest, if you’re interested in reading an article solely about the price of bar drinks you might not be on this blog in the first place.
By now you know some things have a much greater price markup than others. Movie theater popcorn (which I actually find salty enough to render Tiger Woods impotent) has a price markup of anywhere from 4,000 to 6,000 percent depending on if you’re paying 5 or 7 dollars for a small tub of salt sprinkled with popcorn.
Drinks at a bar are another huge markup. It doesn’t exactly take an economist to figure out that if you pay $25 dollars for a 24 can case of beer at Wal-Mart and pay nearly three dollars a glass for that same beer at a bar, you might as well drop your pants and bend over. You might be thinking “Goddamnit WCE, I drink so I don’t feel like doing a math word problem, how much is that?” If a bar glass is the rough equivalent of a single can of beer (and that’s being very generous to your typical bar glass which is probably going to be smaller) you’re paying almost three times as much for that same beer as you would if you drank it at home.
That’s three times as much at a bar for something they’re already making a killing off at the store. Yes, there are more people at a bar than there are in your living room, but for most people that just want to have a good time, I’d try nursing the same beer for as long as you possibly can. For people who just want to have a drink, I’d recommend doing it at home. Because getting wasted at bars drinking 6 beers every Saturday night can have you spending almost a thousand dollars more at the end of the year than you should have.