Citation
(2009), "Recession fuels barter boom", Nutrition & Food Science, Vol. 39 No. 5. https://doi.org/10.1108/nfs.2009.01739eab.029
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2009, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Recession fuels barter boom
Article Type: Food facts From: Nutrition & Food Science, Volume 39, Issue 5.
A London pub is helping its customers beat the recession by letting them barter goods and services for beer. But its landlady is going further by calling on Gordon Brown to scrap the pound for the pint as the UK's currency.
“It could solve the credit crunch at a stroke”, suggests Dawn Kolpin, landlady of The Marksman pub in Shoreditch, east London. “It's amazing what you can buy for a pint of beer”.
Kolpin is launching her “Barter-for-Beer” scheme on the same day – 22 April – as Alistair Darling announced his latest budget. It offers an alternative vision for our economic future.
Kolpin, 36, got the idea for the new scheme after advertising last month in the barter section of Craigslist (www.craigslist.co.uk), the local classified ads site (http://london.craigslist.co.uk/bar/1092111013.html) to swap a pub meal for “a small stack of CDs” by anyone from Perry Como to The Pogues.