off-trade

off-trade (uncountable)

1. (Ireland, British) The sale of alcoholic drinks for consumption off the premises.
   • 1998, Pierre Spahni, Swiss Wine Market Report, Woodhead Publishing, page 56:

     Distribution networks are particularly chaotic in the ‘on’-trade which has steadily lost ground to the ‘off’-trade. Estimates for the volumes of wines consumed in public vary wildly but now usually point down towards to 25%.

   • 2004, Kym Anderson, David Norman, The World's Wine Markets: Globalization at Work, Edward Elgar Publishing, page 133:

     The off-trade has been growing at the expense of the on-trade. Traditionally, wide choices of wine have not been available through public houses in the UK. With the growing interest in wine, this absence of good wine in on-trade establishments may have aided the growth in off-trade sales.

   • Lora Jones (2018 March 27) “Pubs in danger: Six charts on how the British drink”, in BBC News‎, BBC

     The volume of beer sold in supermarkets and off-licences (off-trade) in the UK topped the volume sold in pubs, clubs and restaurants (on-trade) for the first time in 2014.

• on-trade

• trade-off, tradeoff