LCBO Store Employees On Strike!

[Klatuu]

You can find where the money made vs spent by doing a simple Google search for the LCBO financial report.
There you can see that they spend over $1 billion on operations.

Now remove that cost, multiply the proposed additional number of retail outlets liquor could be sold from (which was estimated at about 2000 (there are currently approx. 660 LCBO retail stores...that's where the 3x comes from.

Also, do a simple Google search on alcohol prices across Canada and you'll be pleasantly surprised that they are very competitive in Alberta? You know why? Because there's competition.

Deflection

 

[Skoob]

No thanks, chump. But keep honing your food service industry skills.

But you put more than a couple words together in your response and that my friend is an accomplishment for you!
Will you not accept my congratulations on that achievement?

 

[Skoob]

Deflection

awww...back to single word responses.
You were doing so well...pity.
Get some rest...you must be exhausted.

 

[DesRicardo]

They don't pay more...their prices are one of the best in the country.

From your article, they also have the major retailers operating liquor stores of their own...just separate from the grocery stores.

"Large grocery retailers, including Loblaws, Sobeys and Costco, already operate their own standalone liquor stores in Alberta, often in the same shopping complexes as their grocery stores."

You haven't thought any of this through. Ford wants alcohol in Grocery stores, they don't even do that in Alberta.

You haven't done any research on this.

Your only argument is you hate people that work a low-skill job.

 

[Abjectpatient]

But you have to admit that snow plow drivers don't work in the summer, so it wasn't a terrible guess.

 

[Frankfooter]

Why do you think that's bullshit? (or is that your standard response when you don't want to accept reality?)


Alberta turned from government-run liquor stores to private liquor stores more than 30 years ago. Yet, despite having a fully private retailing system, their provincial liquor regulator returns a larger dividend per capita to the provincial treasury than the LCBO does.
Statistics Canada tracks the annual net income of liquor authorities in Canada and for fiscal year 2022-23, Alberta returned $825,104,000 to the provincial coffers. With a population of 4,645,229 as of April 1, 2023, that means the Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis Commission gave the government a per capita return of $177.62.
https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/heres-the-facts-on-the-lcbos-2-5-billion-dividend

An article by Lilley at the Sun?
He's sleeping, literally, with DoFo's publicity person.

Privatization has lead to higher prices and cutting wages in half.

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www.cbc.ca

Lilley's numbers are bullshit for two reasons:
1) The are flat out wrong, Ontarion makes 5x more than Alberta with only 3x the population.
2) Lilley isn't including the $2.5 in retail profit that the LCBO sends Ontario, just taxes. That's all that's listed in the statscan page.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1810980307908034661

 

[Skoob]

An article by Lilley at the Sun?
He's sleeping, literally, with DoFo's publicity person.

Privatization has lead to higher prices and cutting wages in half.

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www.cbc.ca

Lilley's numbers are bullshit for two reasons:
1) The are flat out wrong, Ontarion makes 5x more than Alberta with only 3x the population.
2) Lilley isn't including the $2.5 in retail profit that the LCBO sends Ontario, just taxes. That's all that's listed in the statscan page.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1810980307908034661

As usual, you call bullshit, I provide a source, and now you discredit the source and present a post from a self-proclaimed leftist union labour hack.

All this because the union wants to provide jobs-for-life to under-achievers over selling some mixed cocktails at private retailers.

So how about getting rid of the LCBO union and keep alcohol sales restricted to LCBO retail stores. That would mean even more money coming to the province right?

 

[Frankfooter]

As usual, you call bullshit, I provide a source, and now you discredit the source and present a post from a self-proclaimed leftist union labour hack.

All this because the union wants to provide jobs-for-life to under-achievers over selling some mixed cocktails at private retailers.

So how about getting rid of the LCBO union and keep alcohol sales restricted to LCBO retail stores. That would mean even more money coming to the province right?

You can't debate the facts, skoob.
As usual.

You're bullshitting.
The debate is over, Tilley is a conservative hack and mischaracterized data for propaganda.

LCBO President Also Sits on Board of Big Business Group Lobbying Doug Ford to Privatize Alcohol Sales in Ontario

Top LCBO executive is in a ‘clear conflict of interest’ and ‘betrayed the public trust’, public accountability advocates and labour leaders say

pressprogress.ca

 

[Skoob]

You can't debate the facts, skoob.
As usual.

You're bullshitting.
The debate is over, Tilley is a conservative hack and mischaracterized data for propaganda.

Sure...you think facts that don't jive with your narrative are propaganda. Just like you think vandalism & arrest events that are reported and confirmed never happened.

 

[K Douglas]

I'd love to know exactly how tax payer money funds us. Really tell me because I don't want to reveal how the LCBOs profits and wages are paid with nontax sources, I want you to try and figure it out yourself.

The taxpayer (i.e. consumer) funds you through the price gouging that exists. Ontario consumers pay more on average for alcohol than any jurisdiction in North America because the LCBO average margin is almost 50%.

 

[Skoob]

I'll just leave this right here as a fitting closure to this thread...

Abacus Data Ontario Poll: LCBO strike seems to have had little impact on Ontario’s political opinions. PCs lead Liberals by 18


https://abacusdata.ca/ontario-politics-abacus-july-2024/