Police raid local shop for premium brands

Police target premium brands

In a surprise raid at a local convenience store in Moston police swooped in and confiscated several cases of Beer, Wine and a quantity of Cigarettes, which they believed to be genuine and took them away for forensic tests after a tip off from a local source.

It is believed this sort of legal trading has been going on for quite some considerable time, but now it is coming to a head because people can no longer afford to pay the prices of these Premium Brands

A Single Mum of two Stacey Skank said” I knew there was something going on with that shop when I went to pick up  my kids Kylie and Ka  from school, I was passing the shop in the afternoon and  noticed a delivery van with a wholesalers name on the side which I thought was odd, the normal delivery van is plain and turns up at night”

 Another local resident Lil the Can said ”How can people survive when shop’s like this are peddling stuff at full price, it’s getting to the point where i won’t be able to buy food at all once I have bought the essentials to live on”.

The Police were unable to provide a full interview but commented, we know times are hard for everybody and we all like fancy packaging, but in these times of austerity people are having to make do with what they can afford and are having to cope with the humiliation of not having the genuine premium brands.

We have heard of instances  when people know they are going to get a visit from friends or relatives, rush into the kitchen and hurriedly start ramming boxes and cartons underneath the kitchen sink and then start to decant their ‘no make’ wines and spirits into the empty branded bottles that they keep in the display cabinet just to avoid losing face.

It just upsets me to think these once proud men and women have been forced to use such measures, the best we can do for them is to keep hunting down these Premium  Brands dealers who are getting wealthy off the backs of ordinary folk who use these products as some sort of status symbol.