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[sebberry]

The white ones?  Yikes, that's a lot of tile to rip up and fix.

[Bingo]

The white ones?  Yikes, that's a lot of tile to rip up and fix.

 

Yes and with Christmas only 5 months off, hope they git'er done soon.

[zoomer]

Yah, those things are chipping and cracking all over the place, you can easily spot a couple dozen on a quick walk through with marker pen x's on them.  I guess they gave up replacing them at some point. 

[Bingo]

New 8,400 square foot liquor store is being stocked and is set to open this weekend.

 

[Mr_E_Squirrel]

Is there not enough private liquor stores in the area? I cannot remember the last time I was in a Gov't liquor store..8500 Square ft that rent is going to be face melting. I guess that means Thrifty foods cannot carry liquor if they decided to .

[G-Man]

They couldn't anyways as there is a liquor store at Shellbourne and North Dairy already.

[Mixed365]

Ya, I wonder what is going to mean to traffic that goes into Hillside Liquor. 

Question - Can private liquor stores carry certain brands or limit edition brews that Gov't cant?

[Mr Cook Street]

Ya, I wonder what is going to mean to traffic that goes into Hillside Liquor. 

Question - Can private liquor stores carry certain brands or limit edition brews that Gov't cant?

I think it is probably more a case of seeing what the BC Liquor Store carries, and then differentiating yourself. They could stock more micro-brews, seasonal etc and find some different value wines that the BCL wouldn't bother with.

[jonny]

Will this be another near useless BCL where you can't buy a cold beer and the only beers they sell are of the multinational variety?

[VicHockeyFan]

It's hard for me to understand what the plan is here, for the government stores.

 

Do they have a strategic plan - that we can see - telling us how and when they like to expand, open new or renovate existing stores?

[VicHockeyFan]

Will this be another near useless BCL where you can't buy a cold beer and the only beers they sell are of the multinational variety?

 

As much as a few might not like it, that is what sells in liquor stores.

[Mixed365]

As much as a few might not like it, that is what sells in liquor stores.

This isn't entirely true. I have a friend who works in a liquor store and he said they will sell out the day of a specific micro-brew. Purchasers literally memorize the day the shipment comes in and come grab it before it sells out - Phillip's Crooked Tooth to name an example. 

[lanforod]

This isn't entirely true. I have a friend who works in a liquor store and he said they will sell out the day of a specific micro-brew. Purchasers literally memorize the day the shipment comes in and come grab it before it sells out - Phillip's Crooked Tooth to name an example. 

I doubt they sell near as much micro-brew as they sell the big mainstay beers like Budweiser, Canadian, Coors, and to a lesser extant, Kokanee and the european major brands Heineken, Stella...

[thundergun]

Although in volume multinationals still put through more volume their share of the market has been dropping with the uptick in locally and independently brewed beer. I would assume in places like Victoria this is much more pronounced than elsewhere.

Edited by thundergun, 21 October 2014 - 09:49 AM.

[Mike K.]

If you go into any liquor store they'll have heaps of Bud, Blue, Kokanee, Pabst, Lucky, Canadian, etc, available in six, 12, 15, 24 and 48 packs. The micro brews are stored in single rows along the wall. Collectively, as in all micro brews, they might sell as many as they will Buds in a given week but beer-by-beer or by brand it's a tiny amount.

[sdwright.vic]

This is a new Signature store format and rumored from my source to have refrigeration.

[LocalMom]

It supposedly opened yesterday and keeps the same hours (or longer) than the mall - so YAY for a Sunday BC Liquor Store other than Oak Bay and Langford!

[gumgum]

I don't understand why there are private liquor stores, government liquor store and now grocery liquor. I assumed with the new legislation, it was a further attempt to kill the Gov liquor store union; but then come these new Signature stores. Either I am missing something or this province is ass backwards.

Edited by gumgum, 21 October 2014 - 06:49 PM.

[AllseeingEye]

I doubt they sell near as much micro-brew as they sell the big mainstay beers like Budweiser, Canadian, Coors, and to a lesser extant, Kokanee and the european major brands Heineken, Stella...

I tend to agree with this and the follow on post by Thundergun; I just returned from the 14th Annual Boys "Leave Yer Wives, Kids and Dogs at Home" Whistler sojourn, this year consisting of  7 well educated gentlemen averaging 52 years young. Of the seven aforementioned bodies four were, for lack of a better term. "beer drinkers" (I'm a vodka guy). Of the four the suds of choice were, respectively, Lucky Lager (there is admittedly just no accounting for some people's taste); Coors Lite (even worse); Budweiser (ugh) and the ever present Kokanee. Not a micro brew in sight and, interestingly, not one of them is a resident in or of Victoria either. These guys are all white collar professional types, averaging 6-figure salaries. They are all well educated academically, and yet to a man drink what micro-brew aficionados would certainly consider inferior "multinational" beer. Labatt's in fact was sponsoring an event in the Village and in spite of wet damp and rainy weather was doing very well 'thank you very much' in terms of flogging their product. Micro-brews may be popular in Oak Bay or Fairfield but then again neither is exactly representative of "the world" either.

[RFS]

^they just need to be educated I think most people would come around