Bringing the bar home: Melbourne’s stage four lockdown boosts booze subscriptions Coronavirus Stephanie Palmer-Derrien 5 August 2020 Subscription startup Whisky Loot has seen a 20% uptick in business from Victoria in the past two weeks alone, as Melburnians bunker down.
Booze subscription startup sees unexpected sales spike, as customers turn to whisky to “tolerate the apocalypse” Coronavirus Stephanie Palmer-Derrien 15 April 2020 As the COVID-19 pandemic, and the ensuing economic effects, hit Australia, Whisky Loot founder Joel Hauer braced for a hit to the online subscription business. But it never came.