Until the 1970s most of the larger pubs also featured an off-sales counter or attached shop for the sales of beers, wines and spirits for home consumption. In the 1970s the newly built supermarkets and high street chain stores or off-licences undercut the pub prices to such a degree that within ten years all but a handful of pubs had closed their off-sale counters, which had often been referred to colloquially as the jug and bottle. COUNT 5
QSN1 What was the off-sales counter or attached shop for the sales of beers, wines and spirits for home consumption often referred to as?  ANS1 jug and bottle QSN2 In what decade did pubs tend to cease selling alcohol for off-premises drinking? ANS2 1970s QSN3 What was the name of the counter where pubs traditionally sold alcohol to drink at home? ANS3 off-sales counter QSN4 What was a colloquial term for the off-sales counter? ANS4 the jug and bottle QSN5 Along with high street chain stores and off-licenses, what stores undercut pub alcohol sales in the 1970s? ANS5 supermarkets