Private Liquor Stores = More Deaths?

Yeah, ever since privatization in Alberta, it's been a veritable Mad Max wasteland here. Corpses everywhere. The only retail left are the liquor stores. We make Detroit look like Xanadu.

Garth, brilliant comment. I know ever since privatization of beer, wine and liquor sales in Alberta, my personal consumption has skyrocketed! The bottle pickers come by daily to keep my place tidy and because there's an outlet on every corner (just like Starbucks) I never have to push my shopping cart very far to fill it up.

Cripes. Talk about being caught between a rock, a hard place, and a swamp!

Here in Eastern Ontario we have the LCBO monopoly; 12 miles east in la belle province it's the SAQ that has sole distributorship of booze; and to the south of me on Akwasasne, there's cheap booze...but I'd rather spend my money on a guy who pays taxes and contributes to society than someone who doesn't.

So, I guess a fellow just has to schnapp to it and find a local entrepreneur!

Saskatchewan has an entrenched union based liquor store system. We have brutal prices and as many fatalities from drunk driving as anywhere else.

Perhaps we could treat adults as adults.

The privatization of liquor stores in Alberta is one of Ralph Klein's lasting legacies. It is hard to remember as it has been so long. One store downtown is now one in every strip mall.

One of the effects of my visiting Florida frequently (cheap beer in every gas station and grocery store) is markedly reduced consumption of alcohol when I come back to BC. Some of the wines in FL are less than 1/3 the price they are in BC and even cheaper if they happen to be a 2 for 1 sale at the local grocery store. Jaegermeister is dirt cheap in FL and one can buy it prechilled unlike in BC. Tequila is very cheap in FL and I just wish I could bring back more with me when I return.

While I really like having a cold beer on a hot day, I like supporting commie unions even less so I'm in my boycott liquor stores mode now.

Haven't patronized a liquor store in Ontario in years. We drink wine and get it from Magnotta wine stores. No LCBO markup and it's good stuff. It's a two hour trip to get it but well worth the drive. The cost is about 50% less.

Once upon a time the free press and comedians would mock such baby talk propaganda mercilessly.
Now the press grovels for the advertising money and the PC morons that are allowed airtime as comedians, agree with the propaganda.
An obvious response would be to point out that all Pennsylvanian Liquor agency employees must be complicit in selling booze to the drunk driver involved,they hold the monopoly, hence they caused the fathers death.
State pushers of death, dealing liquor to the hapless automobile drivers, impairing their judgement, causing death of innocents.
Pathetic add as well.

We pass through Pennsylvania snowbirding twice a year. A few years ago they were talking about selling beer in gorcery stores. However, one had to sit down in front of a TV camera which would send your picture to a government [unionized] employee who would check your driver's licence and image to verify if you were of legal drinking age.

That is only one of their loonie ideas. Their on and off ramps for major highways were probably designed by the Taliban.

Aren't there already laws against drunk driving and age restrictions for purchasing alcohol? These things aren't applied because...?

It's often noted that Manitoba has higher income tax rates than Saskatchewan.
However, they have higher beer prices. An eight pack of a major brand is at least five bucks more. And it's even higher once the vendors switch from the day price to the night price after the government stores close for the day.

Also, SK prices beer on a per unit of alcohol basis so the budget beers with higher percentage are more expensive than regular major brands.

I probably despise union liquor store employees more than most folks but that's my problem.

However, one LCBO employee did earn a little respect from me one fine day. I had broken my leg and after two months in the house, a road trip was in order to our local LCBO outlet. I told the Missus to go ahead as I would hobble in on my crutches on my own time.

There was a sole gentleman running the checkout with no other employee in sight. Once I made it past the doors avoiding the wet spots and managed to push my way through the stiles, I headed over to the ryeski aisle where the Missus was. Despite having five fellas lined up waiting to checkout, this employee came around the counter and asked me if I needed any help. I declined and thanked him for his concern.

OK...I now grudgingly accept that not all unionized liquor store thuds are bad, surly people. While I still despise the liquor and beer store cartel thuds, I now accept that there are shining lights who do show some humanity.

And this past Friday, a 26er of Royal Reserve was $24.65 at the LCBO while at some place in Edmonton(Liquor Barn/Great Canadian Liquor Store????), the same bottle was advertised for $18.99. I am getting so tired of the rectal pillaging by these union thuds.

Next on the list will be:
Private vehicles = More Deaths?

Oh CRAP!!! I hope no one in Sask finds out that a whole lot of us are getting much cheeper boozer in Alb............... naw - I won't give that info up.

We are governed FOR the 1%. Unfortunately, it's for the stupid 1%.

Someday we will get it, and will be governed for the 99%.

Lived for some 10 years in Osoyoos. Sorry to say, never bought a beer in Osoyoos liquor store.

Six pack of Miller or Busch was less than $3, no deposit, no tax in the end of the world hillbilly town (the Americans call their towns "city" regardless of the population count) of Oroville, or bar just across the border, total distance @2km.

If you don't know, you can bring back a six pack regardless of the time you spent there. So you can tell the 'mericans that you are going to pick up a six pack, they would just laugh. Of course they new us.

I've never bought liquor in Canada; mind you, I've only emptied three bottles in the last 15 years... I make my wine at an on-site place for between three and four bucks a bottle and have a glass every every dinner time for less than the price of juice. I don't like supporting unions or government kleptocracy under the guise of "sin tax".

This ad could also say that the Pennsylvania death rate is low (if it really is) because of exorbitant alcohol prices.

Almost all of my beer/liquor money is spent in North Dakota rather than Sask. Costs down there can be 25% - 40% less on the stuff I buy. The absurd SLGA pricing model/sin tax means that Sask doesn't want my money.

Also, if you'd like to see what booze goes for in the US, check out www.bevmo.com

It'll give you a good idea of how much we are gouged here and all the tasty stuff we can't get.

oh no, they better not move to flordia.

What is really hilarious in Canada is buying evil cigarettes or tobacco - it is cloaked behind locked doors or has a black (signifying death, I suppose!) tarp draped over the smokes (a lock on the tarp) and clerks make a long hike, yards from the cash register, to unlock the black tarp/ door, fetch one of the packets, re lock the door and saunter back to the cash register (two to three min trip; sometimes more if the ONE key is at another cash register). Next customer wants cigarettes also...repeat performance. Of course it is only one pack because most smokers do not buy cigarettes from the gument - too much tax).

Stores must have a 'special' license to sell this legal product(tobacco) which cannot be 'legally' consumed anywhere but in the back forty with a 400 foot cement pad surrounding the smoker (unless, of course, that person happens to be a North American Indian, then that person can blow smoke at the Prime Minister inside the parliament buildings in Ottawa! - See the pow wow after the 'hunger' strike by the Attawopiscat chieftien) and the msm turns their hypocritical heads on their pivoting necks to look the other way - the smoking chiefs with the PM were caught on camera, however, by Sun News and the photo was at Sun News website - I linked to it here, at SDA.

The booze/tobacco antis are so fanatical that they are not just pathetic, they are slap stick humour!