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Originally Posted by calgarywinning
It's clear the law has changed but how will this effect pricing? BC liquor pricing in comparison to Alberta is usually 20% to 30% higher on everything. Then you pay GST and Provincial on top of that.
I have many friends in BC who load up on Alberta booze whenever they pass through. Just a little side topic the media isn't addressing.
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I don't think it will have any affect on price, places still cannot sell alcohol for less than what the bc liquor stores sell for.
And in the end this is all moot, because they aren't adding any licenses... for there to be a new liquor store inside a grocery store, they will need to acquire one or use an existing one
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But he said that would mean grocery stores wanting to sell booze will have to convince existing liquor stores to move in.
Simpson said he doubts liquor stores will agree to do that.
"If you have a liquor store next door to a Safeway or a Save-on-Foods — a three- or 4,000-square foot liquor store in the same mall — are you going to give that up to put a kiosk that might be 500 square feet inside that food retailer? It doesn't make any sense," he said.
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