Alberta liquor stores are privately owned businesses and income depends upon their sales. Grocery stores are largely owned by American companies ,income from liquor sales goes to a foreign country not to Canadians. We should support Canadian businesses not foreign ones.
Dennis - 10 years ago
Time to get into the 21st century. The problems that liquor can cause are not driven by the location of its availability but by misuse. The concept of the corruption of minors by having liquor in supermarkets is also false. In many other parts of the world this has been common practice for many years and there is no evidence that it leads to increased drinking or problems (it doesn't decrease those problems either). Being able to buy your beer and wine at the same checkout as your bread and milk is fine and convenient. And yes the "independent" liquor retailers would be hit - well in Alberta they've been coddled by their government friends, maybe now it is time for some real competition to give the consumer a better deal.
Alberta liquor stores are privately owned businesses and income depends upon their sales. Grocery stores are largely owned by American companies ,income from liquor sales goes to a foreign country not to Canadians. We should support Canadian businesses not foreign ones.
Time to get into the 21st century. The problems that liquor can cause are not driven by the location of its availability but by misuse. The concept of the corruption of minors by having liquor in supermarkets is also false. In many other parts of the world this has been common practice for many years and there is no evidence that it leads to increased drinking or problems (it doesn't decrease those problems either). Being able to buy your beer and wine at the same checkout as your bread and milk is fine and convenient. And yes the "independent" liquor retailers would be hit - well in Alberta they've been coddled by their government friends, maybe now it is time for some real competition to give the consumer a better deal.