Drink Prices

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I know that pubs are going out of business fast these days but I wonder if they are bringing it on themselves, I say this because over the weekend I offered to drive so that others in our group could have alcoholic drinks whilst I only had Coke out of those postmix dispensers and was absolutely stunned when the barman charged me £2.10 for half a pint or if you like £4.20 per pint,
bearing in mind that there is NO DUTY on soft drinks this is what I call a total rip off as a pint of real ale was selling in the same pub for £2.90 that's £1.30 less than the same measure of Coke or Lemonade, how can pubs justify this?

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Now that is greed!

We never charged for water, soda water or dashes that went into pints (lager and lime etc)