The Beer Store

[Spokes]

The Beer Store

[Spokes]

Feel free to continue discussing the beer store here.

[Drake]

Down with the Beer Store. Down with monopolies. Down with Socialist liquor policies.

[schooner77]

It does seem like a way of thinking that has long since passed, like the old Sunday shopping law.

[MidTowner]

I'm not saying I feel really strongly about this (I do not picket places that open Sunday, or even always avoid shopping on Sundays myself), but I sometimes pine for the Sunday law. It's of course restrictive, but it's not based in capriciousness: giving all workers one day of rest to spend with their families and what-have-you is a positive. I think that giving "consumers" the ability to take one day off from retail is not entirely negative, either. But I'm only musing here; please don't take me for some kind of fuddy duddy. I understand the change has been made, and there's no putting the tooth paste back in on that one for sure.

I'm not sure how much longer the Beer Store will be around, but I think that socialist liquor policies will persist a while yet in Ontario. I can't see any catalyst on the horizon that would encourage a government to make the move away from them.

[Markster]

Man, the downtown Beer Store had quite the crowd milling about this morning waiting for it to open at 10am!

[BuildingScout]

I'm not sure how much longer the Beer Store will be around, but I think that socialist liquor policies will persist a while yet in Ontario. I can't see any catalyst on the horizon that would encourage a government to make the move away from them.

I don't see what is socialist about liquor regulations that were pushed by the religious conservative temperance movement in the 1920s and includes a privately owned beer monopoly.

[BuildingScout]

It's of course restrictive, but it's not based in capriciousness: giving all workers one day of rest to spend with their families and what-have-you is a positive. I think that giving "consumers" the ability to take one day off from retail is not entirely negative, either.

Well the vast majority of the work force still gets Sunday off, but this is straying far off topic so I'll stop here.

[MidTowner]

I'm not sure how much longer the Beer Store will be around, but I think that socialist liquor policies will persist a while yet in Ontario. I can't see any catalyst on the horizon that would encourage a government to make the move away from them.

I don't see what is socialist about liquor regulations that were pushed by the religious conservative temperance movement in the 1920s and includes a privately owned beer monopoly.

I should have put it in quotation marks. Drake said "socialist liquor policies" in an above post (I think at least partly tongue-in-cheek) and I was referring to that.

I don't think we will see a big change to the way LCBO and Beer Store and alcohol in general run in this province for a while.

[Drake]

Tongue in cheek for sure. I call it (LCBO) socialist mainly because it is a state run, state controlled economic entity where private ownership is outlawed... except you know... for the Beer Store which is a capitalist cabal preying on our lack of choice. (more tongue in cheek)

[Markster]

So the LCBO is communist, while the the Beer Store is fascist!