B.C. liquor laws to allow alcohol in grocery stores Spring 2015

I'm really not sure what the point of this would be...

Saves on gas, none of those nasty nagging trips to the corner liquor store. Now you can buy a 12 pack when you pick up your TV dinners and bag of Dorito's.

I agree it's stupid idea especially since they aren't going to increase the number of liquor licenses which means that someone's gonna get rich selling theirs to the local Walmart or big box Grocery Store.


The BC Liberals are bound and determined to garner revenues through addictive behaviour and when you combine this easy access to alcohol theory with their gambling strategy you can see it plain as day.

You'll be able to look at the price of a steak next summer and go aw fuck I'll buy a two-four and a can of tuna and save five bucks...

You can buy booze in many US states from gas stations, in Alberta it's common for a liquor store to be owned by the grocery store, share a wall with the grocery but be a different store that sells alcohol.

Banks sell insurance in stores right beside their branch banks and share identical brand markings.

The idea that you need to sell one product in one store and another in a different store is comical, and just another proof of the stupidity of Concernocrats.

It just seems completely ridiculous to me in an age where cigarettes and lighters have to be kept hidden from minors, so as not to influence them (or so the story goes), but they can walk down the grocery store isles and grab a case of beer and that's just a-okay.

We're being ruled by retards.

eh? You may want to read up on the rules for this change before commenting.

I did not notice the link within the article outlining that until you just said that. That actually does make a bit of difference. Thank you. It's not quite as stupid now.

Having lived most of my life in Qu�bec, I have trouble understanding why it's taken so long for this to come about... and why the outrage.

We've had beer in d�panneurs, grocery stores and gas stations for at least 40 years now... wine at least 20 and probably longer than that. You can get them at Cosco too. They've started offering other alcoholic beverages too, such as coolers and ice cider.

I don't have an issue with it, per se. I just found it odd to make such an issue over the visible sale of cigarettes and lighters, and then allow alcohol to be sold in the same retail spaces. Seemed hypocritical.

Good argument... was the hiding of tobacco products a Federal or Provincial decision?

I believe federal, but regardless...

What an oxymoron of regulations. So here`s the question. If these requirements happen to be true, how are Clarks Clowns going to stop the biggest of the box stores, Costco and SuperStore from selling booze?

These stores meet all the requirements as laid out by the Gov't. 75% of their sales is food and they're over 10000 square feet which means that the "No Big Box Stores will sell booze" is utter crap spewed from the mouth of people who have become experts at spinning everything they say to mean something else completely.

So if they're gonna allow the sales of booze in stores that sell groceries why not let the little guy make a buck to? Why just restrict it to the ones who'll pay outrageous amounts for a current liquor license? There are alot of smaller food stores that would love nothing more than having the ability to stock a few cases of beer and some wine to supplement their income but this mishmash of double speak appears to be eliminating them from the windfall that some of the big chain stores will garner.

Goddam it this is BC.
It's setup so if you don't know who you sure ain't from here gets to sell and no one else does.

All I have to say is, It's BC. A province that loves moronic regulations even more than Ontario.