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Originally Posted by Williamoforange
Local micro-breweries never had good access to the foreign owned beer store.
No one is being obsessive, people are just tired of puritanical attitude about access in southern/Eastern Ontario. The changes to allow sale in corner store & etc was a good idea the bad thing was both wynnes decision to extend the beer store monopoly which led to the high cost o cancel. The change brought ontario closer to that of Quebec and other provinces, so try another b.s reason to continue to restrict.
Also changing habits outside of this have led to a reduction in bottle sales, so much so moosehead doesn't sell them anymore.
Next your going to tell me you preferred the gov run pot stores.....
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Beer store had a wide selection of both big brands and Ontario micro breweries that grocery stores can't and won't ever match. I always made it a point to buy local and I'm sure many others did too.
Bottles that are reused are the better way from an environmental perspective. It was much simpler to deliver products to a select few beer stores, pick up empties and bring them to the bottling plants. You could make an argument that glass is heavier, so it means more fuel burned, but you're cutting the middle men (recycling truck, recycling centres, higher volume of production of new containers).
I do believe the Government should control activities and substances that are damaging to society. Places like LCBO (I do prefer the Government owned model as opposed to contracts like Beer Store), Beer Store and, an LCBO model for pot, are easier ways to ensure these substances don't get into the wrong hands. I'm sure minors will have an easier time finding the grocery store that doesn't check IDs.
Ultimately, I don't know what the big deal was about driving to the Beer Store. Why was that so inconvenient? Are you honestly telling me $225 million was a great investment to get booze in grocery stores a year early?
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