Time to end alcohol retail monopolies in Ontario, report says
The “quasi-monopoly” LCBO and The Beer Store have hosed Ontario consumers long enough, a C.D. Howe Institute report says.
full story HERE
i have listened to people over many years, well over a decade talk about the beer store, they thought it was a provincial/crown corp just as the lcbo is. WRONG!! i have over and over told people that this is a privately owned company that got exclusive retail rights to all beer sales in our province, unbeleivable!!! labatts/molsons/sleemans are the 3 companies awarded this lucrative right and subsequently labatts and molsons have been sold to foreign conglomurates who still hold this monopoly, low key, hiding in dark corners like rats and laughing all the way to the bank. this is allowed by the provincial governement regardless which party was/is in power??? how can this be? every retailer in this province that passes regulation should be allowed to sell all alcohol, those ridiculous adds/comercials last year by the beer store were nothing but propoganda, if we dont see or control the sales, there will be a epidemic alcoholism and underage drinking, really?? same buddies who own our provincial 407 hiway own the eclusive rights to sell/retail beer. stop the insanity!!
The “quasi-monopoly” LCBO and The Beer Store have hosed Ontario consumers long enough, a C.D. Howe Institute report says.
full story HERE
i have listened to people over many years, well over a decade talk about the beer store, they thought it was a provincial/crown corp just as the lcbo is. WRONG!! i have over and over told people that this is a privately owned company that got exclusive retail rights to all beer sales in our province, unbeleivable!!! labatts/molsons/sleemans are the 3 companies awarded this lucrative right and subsequently labatts and molsons have been sold to foreign conglomurates who still hold this monopoly, low key, hiding in dark corners like rats and laughing all the way to the bank. this is allowed by the provincial governement regardless which party was/is in power??? how can this be? every retailer in this province that passes regulation should be allowed to sell all alcohol, those ridiculous adds/comercials last year by the beer store were nothing but propoganda, if we dont see or control the sales, there will be a epidemic alcoholism and underage drinking, really?? same buddies who own our provincial 407 hiway own the eclusive rights to sell/retail beer. stop the insanity!!