Ontario vastly expanding where booze can be sold in move to modernize alcohol retail market

[onomatopoeia]

Ontario vastly expanding where booze can be sold in move to modernize alcohol retail market

Starting in 2026, Ontarians will be able to buy beer, wine, cider and seltzers at convenience stores, big box outlets, some gas stations and more supermarkets, marking a major overhaul in how alcohol is sold in the province. (click the link above for the full article)

Alcohol sold at gas stations...what could possibly go wrong there?

 

[The Oracle]

I'm with leaving it like it is personally.

 

[tml]

If you need booze theat badly maybe it's time to get some help.

 

[bazokajoe]

I'm with leaving it like it is personally.

I agree.
The big question for corner stores like Circle K and Avondale is what products do they get rid of to make room for beer and alcohol?
I assume they will get rid of low selling products to make room.
Most of these stores are in small strip malls and have no where to expand.

 

[Mr Deeds]

I'm with leaving it like it is personally.

I got to say I agree with you on this I don't think anything good can come of corner store selling booze I think it'll increase crime and minors will be able to get a hold of it a lot easier

 

[bazokajoe]

I got to say I agree with you on this I don't think anything good can come of corner store selling booze I think it'll increase crime and minors will be able to get a hold of it a lot easier

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

 

[Ponderling]

I think that some of it is to keep booze accessible so tax base from it stays stable.

The move to legalize weed and provincial weed wholesale for legit retailers has only made a dint in the tax free curbside weed suppliers most folks and now the younger crowd sources from a lot of the time.

And younger crowd seem to go for weed a lot more than booze from what I see from my young adult kids and their peers.

 

[Not getting younger]

The province is starved for cash, in debt up to its eyeballs, and needs to increase revenue. Would people prefer methods like this to increase revenue, where it’s your choice. Or direct taxation where there’s no choice.

No reason to believe it won’t increase sales. People stop at corner stores, gas stations all the time on the way home, etc.

 

[xix]

Alcohol sold at gas stations...what could possibly go wrong there?

I saw a place like this in NFLD in 2006, not even gum was sold just petro and alcohol/beer.

Also up north in Ontario in small villages ( or outside Grimsby) most gas station are a cross of petro/LCBO/BEER.
So what is the big Fuzz?

Go to or stop at any small town of under 1000 people and you will probably see it.

 

[SaturnFan]

Ontario vastly expanding where booze can be sold in move to modernize alcohol retail market

Starting in 2026, Ontarians will be able to buy beer, wine, cider and seltzers at convenience stores, big box outlets, some gas stations and more supermarkets, marking a major overhaul in how alcohol is sold in the province. (click the link above for the full article)

How convenient - just before the next provincial election scheduled for June 4, 2026.

 

[Not getting younger]

How convenient - just before the next provincial election scheduled for June 4, 2026.

“Maybe”
But I suggest you do some factual research on the provinces financial position.

You can start here when he considered selling the LCBO and other measures that reduce revenue.

Moody's downgrades Ontario's credit rating

Moody's downgrades Ontario's credit rating

www.bnnbloomberg.ca

Then move to here.

Financial Accountability Office of Ontario | Publication

This report provides an update on Ontario’s credit rating as of January 2023.

www.fao-on.org

.

Then move to Boomers, immigration and healthcare…read a recent FAO etc.

Don’t like some things? Don’t make the beds and whine about the consequences

 

[bazokajoe]

How convenient - just before the next provincial election scheduled for June 4, 2026.

From what I've heard the contract with the beer store expires in 2026. Apparently their is a clause in the contract that requires the government give 1 years notice before any changes.
Not sure if it's true, just going by what I heard.

 

[onomatopoeia]

How convenient - just before the next provincial election scheduled for June 4, 2026.

The, (still unfulfilled) election promise to allow beer and wine sales in corner stores arguably made David Peterson the first Liberal Premier of Ontario since 1943, (1985).

 

[Ceiling Cat]

Alcohol sold at gas stations...what could possibly go wrong there?

Beer and wine have been sold at grocery store, convenience stores and gas stations in Quebec for many years. If someone will buy at a gas station and drink it imminently, he can just as easily buy it at the LCBO and drink it outside. I knew a guy that was an alcoholic in high school, when we were in our late 20s I was told he even kept a stash of booze hidden under the glove box in his car. I was told by another high school acquaintance how he would suddenly stop the car and start to dismantle the glove box to get at the booze to get his booze fix. He had several DWI infractions and could not be caught with booze in the car. You can not stop chronic boozers.

I was buying my Christmas booze this year and saw so many people ( men and women ) run into the store and grab a bottle of 375 ml from the small bottle rack and run to the cash register. I am betting most of these bottles were consumed within hours.

 

[onomatopoeia]

Yada, Yada... I knew a guy that was an alcoholic in high school, when we were in our late 20s ...Yada, yada.

I was 16 when I graduated from high school, but that's grade 11 in Quebec.

At that time, the minimum age there to purchase things was when you had the balls to try. I bought my first Playboy, (April, 1974 issue), a few days before my thirteenth birthday, and I was 14 when I first bought a mickey bottle of Bacardi. Sales clerks in Montreal didn't give a shit; their job was to sell bottles of alcohol, not to enforce morality. My father used to send me on my bike to buy his pipe tobacco when I was eight, and the cheap bastard used to send me with exact change.

 

[Nickelodeon]

I think the big difference we'll see is in places like Walmart and Costco. In the US they have huge wine, beer and hard alcohol footprints in store. Assuming that the taxes issues aren't an inhibitor.

 

[lomotil]

Ontario vastly expanding where booze can be sold in move to modernize alcohol retail market

Starting in 2026, Ontarians will be able to buy beer, wine, cider and seltzers at convenience stores, big box outlets, some gas stations and more supermarkets, marking a major overhaul in how alcohol is sold in the province. (click the link above for the full article)

Alcohol sold at gas stations...what could possibly go wrong there?

The selection of beer currently available at the Beer Store and wine at the LCBO cannot be easily matched at gas station, convenience stores or by even supermarkets and big box outlets.

 

[Ceiling Cat]

I was 16 when I graduated from high school, but that's grade 11 in Quebec.

At that time, the minimum age there to purchase things was when you had the balls to try. I bought my first Playboy, (April, 1974 issue), a few days before my thirteenth birthday, and I was 14 when I first bought a mickey bottle of Bacardi. Sales clerks in Montreal didn't give a shit; their job was to sell bottles of alcohol, not to enforce morality. My father used to send me on my bike to buy his pipe tobacco when I was eight, and the cheap bastard used to send me with exact change.

Did you grow up in Park Ex or the Old Italian district near St. Laurent and Jeam Talon E.?

 

[Vinson]

I think 30 years ago you could buy beer at the convenience store in Montreal.

 

[JohnnyWishbone]

I think 30 years ago you could buy beer at the convenience store in Montreal.

Yep. I remember in 1992 when I was 16 I used to do that in Montreal