Takealot won't let you get your buzz on this New Year's

[Hanno Labuschagne]

Takealot won't let you get your buzz on this New Year's

Takealot has inexplicably disabled sales of alcohol on its online store for well over a week.

A MyBroadband reader notified us about the issue and referred us to a Reddit thread where several other Takealot customers were complaining about the lack of alcohol availability on the store.

 

[chickenbeef]

Good, we need less drunkards

 

[TheMightyQuin]

Good, we need less drunkards

Oh shut up!

 

[Bliksis]

Haha. No response from Takealot.

 

[rvZA]

F**k... you had well over a week to walk down to the bottle store, stock up and drink yourself into a coma tonight. Why blame Takealot for your own laziness?!

 

[now05ster]

Haha. No response from Takealot.

 

[boomslang]

Aren't the liquor stores open? You can still get your dop

 

[rvZA]

Aren't the liquor stores open? You can still get your dop

For today's generation it is easier to sit dry, feel sorry for themselves and blame Takealot for this, instead of driving or walking down to the bottle store and buy their alcohol.

 

[WollieVerstege]

There many other apps where you can have same day delivery, no need for Takealot.

 

[Dan C]

F**k... you had well over a week to walk down to the bottle store, stock up and drink yourself into a coma tonight. Why blame Takealot for your own laziness?!

It's not about stocking up, laziness. Don't you comprehend sometimes or never ?

I fill my basket with some booze when I order small items to get FREE shipping.

 

[airborne]

It's not about stocking up, laziness. Don't you comprehend sometimes or never ?

I fill my basket with some booze when I order small items to get FREE shipping.

Logic may be a sharp sword but it’s nothing against @rvZA impenetrable armour of stupid

 

[RichardG]

Aren't the liquor stores open? You can still get your dop

Just order from Checkers 360, Mr D Pick N Pay, Pick N Pay Online, Spar 2 U Tops, etc. Uber eats also has alchol..

Just e-hail there and see civilization you might get lucky and catch an impala there.

 

[r00igev@@r]

Pull into the Saxonwold Shebeen. Drinks on the taxpayers bill.

 

[quovadis]

Someone’s kid ordered alcohol on takealot.

 

[rvZA]

It's not about stocking up, laziness. Don't you comprehend sometimes or never ?

I fill my basket with some booze when I order small items to get FREE shipping.

You know that you can stock up on some energy bars, or butter, or chips, or potatoes even cold drinks to make up enough for free shipping. Our stores are empty, but they are not that empty that you only have to settle on Booze.

 

[backstreetboy]

Free shipping but you have to buy booze to get it?

 

[SauRoNZA]

I’m willing to bet someone forgot to renew their liquor license and they don’t want to make that public.

Probably retrenched the person who did it historically and got a surprise.

 

[Dan C]

You know that you can stock up on some energy bars, or butter, or chips, or potatoes even cold drinks to make up enough for free shipping. Our stores are empty, but they are not that empty that you only have to settle on Booze.

I normally don't eat more than 30 energy bars a day.

 

[Dan C]

I’m willing to bet someone forgot to renew their liquor license and they don’t want to make that public.

Probably retrenched the person who did it historically and got a surprise.

That and I think it could be regional. As licenses are different across provinces.

 

[SauRoNZA]

That and I think it could be regional. As licenses are different across provinces.

Yeah it must be very complex in a setup like this and I’m betting it’s a scrambling **** show now to fix it.

Probably lose millions over the festive…held that red line even further along.