Was in Tesco's the other day and saw this sign. Hurray! The Scottish Government is bringing in new legislation that means that supermarkets can only display drink in one area of the supermarket and not beside roller skates,television sets,ice cubes and bacon rashers as illustrated here.

To be fair to Tesco, they have over the past few months increased their non-alcoholic shelves to include ones that don't taste like mouthwash and are placing these drinks on the more prominent eye level shelves. This is the new market in drink and I would guess that in a few years time, we will be taking the same attitude to low alcohol drinks as we do to organic veg; we'll see it as the healthy ethical purchase.

So now that all those bins on the aisles are to be emptied of drink, what is Tesco going to put in its place? My guess is Doritos and mega bars of chocolate..

Scotlands Drink Problem in Pictures

Do you want to know why Scotland has a drink problem? You need look no further than you r local supermarket. This is the scene that greeted me at Tesco yesterday;















Yep, right at the entrance. Three big bins that you can't miss; make it wine, because more women shop in here than men. Put it on the right hand side; most folk are right handed and it'll make it even easier.

Ok. I want to buy a wide screen telly. Oh, there's some wine that I can buy instead. What was it I wanted?
















I promised wee Jamie that I'd get him a pair of roller skates. Oh, there's some wine next to them; really convenient, that'll go well with the skates..




















Right, some bacon for breakfast and a morning snifter to wash it down..

















Nothing like a cheap lasagne full of hydrogenated fats to go with some Chasse du Pape.



















Right, I'll get some ice cubes for the Coke and lemonade that I'm buying. Oooh, wonder what ice cubes are like in wine?
















Why do we have a drink problem? Why is the number of women with a drink problem increasing? Send to Johnny Tesco Walker,The Ministry of the Bleedin' Obvious, Chardonnay Aisle, St Budweiser's-in-the-Square, Glasgow PST ASA NEWT. And the prize is a bottle of wine..