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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
I know when they allowed Safeway and Superstore to start selling booze there was a lot of "they'll sell it cheap to get rid of the little guy and then burn us", but that didn't happen.
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Actually Rouge, it did happen, not all because of the grocery stores getting into the booze business, but because of fairly natural consolidation in the business. Take the little liquor place near where I live...it went from an independent, to a Willow Park, to a Liquor Barn, to closed. Liquor privitization was sold as being an opportunity for small business, but it's large groups, be they the grocery stores or the Liquor Barns that control most of the market.