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Originally Posted by Julio
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.
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Shows what I know.
But really, that is just one store. I'm sure there are more like it and I knew they all wouldn't survive, but many of them did. I may have been travelling in alco-socialists circles at the time, but me and my cronies made a point of buying from the little guy. We were convinced that Safeway and Superstore would undercut everybody, and take a loss doing so, until they were the only game in town and would be able to charge whatever they pleased.