[Northern Light]

Crazy expensive! You can get the same Molson 30 pack in Buffalo for $25 lol

https://www.premiergourmet.com/molson-canadian-30-pack-cans-068213034120.html

That's in USD, right?

If so, that's $33.94CAD

Still a bunch cheaper to be sure, but not quite as extreme as it first looks.

The principle difference is excise tax, particularly provincial.

This graphic is six years old now......but very illustrative:

Based on the above, the difference is about .67c on each can.

A difference of $16 for a 24 in the example above, and if you extrapolated that to 30 its an extra $20 in tax in Canada embedded in the price.

Brewer's Retail and LCBO markups account for most of the rest.

 

[gabe]

That's in USD, right?

If so, that's $33.94CAD

Still a bunch cheaper to be sure, but not quite as extreme as it first looks.

The principle difference is excise tax, particularly provincial.

This graphic is six years old now......but very illustrative:

View attachment 601858

Based on the above, the difference is about .67c on each can.

A difference of $16 for a 24 in the example above, and if you extrapolated that to 30 its an extra $20 in tax in Canada embedded in the price.

Brewer's Retail and LCBO markups account for most of the rest.

Still a good deal even after the exchange rate! I have actually seen beer cheaper than that at the discount stores. Of course usually it's all corporate swill.

 

[Towered]

7-11:

 

[Northern Light]

A handful of additional supermarkets have been granted full wine/beer/cocktail licenses; some will not be effective until the end of November.

Longos Liberty Village
Davidson's Loblaws City Market at Yonge/Lawrence
Mike's Independent City Market on Peter Street
and not at all downtown......
But the Food Basics on Sandhurst Circle (Woodside Square Mall)

***

In general, so far, it looks to me like Metro will roll out booze sales to all of their properties (Metro and Food Basics) where space permits.

Longos appears to be going chain-wide for the full line stores, but will also do the mini-store in Brookfield Place.

Sobeys will see sales at all full-line stores, and some urban fresh locations.

Loblaws will have sales at most/all Loblaws branded outlets, but so far rollout to No Frills seems very light. But, the No Frills at Dufferin Mall has a license.

Independents: A1 Premium and Bestco have picked up licenses.

Walmart is going fairly wide and has 3 stores in Scarborough w/licenses, but does not appear to have obtained one for Gerrard Square or Dufferin Mall.

No sign of any licenses for Whole Foods

 

[Towered]

A handful of additional supermarkets have been granted full wine/beer/cocktail licenses; some will not be effective until the end of November.

Longos Liberty Village
Davidson's Loblaws City Market at Yonge/Lawrence
Mike's Independent City Market on Peter Street
and not at all downtown......
But the Food Basics on Sandhurst Circle (Woodside Square Mall)

***

In general, so far, it looks to me like Metro will roll out booze sales to all of their properties (Metro and Food Basics) where space permits.

Longos appears to be going chain-wide for the full line stores, but will also do the mini-store in Brookfield Place.

Sobeys will see sales at all full-line stores, and some urban fresh locations.

Loblaws will have sales at most/all Loblaws branded outlets, but so far rollout to No Frills seems very light. But, the No Frills at Dufferin Mall has a license.

Independents: A1 Premium and Bestco have picked up licenses.

Walmart is going fairly wide and has 3 stores in Scarborough w/licenses, but does not appear to have obtained one for Gerrard Square or Dufferin Mall.

No sign of any licenses for Whole Foods

The No Frills at Lansdowne and Dundas has had beer and wine for years. Surprised there's nothing for Walfart at Dufferin Mall given the demographics...

 

[evandyk]

Maybe they think it's not necessary as a draw given there's already an LCBO and Beer Store in the mall? They won't be making much money off of sales, so it probably only makes sense for those big stores as a way to get people into the store to spend money on other stuff.

 

[AlbertC]

The No Frills at Lansdowne and Dundas has had beer and wine for years. Surprised there's nothing for Walfart at Dufferin Mall given the demographics...

Nothing is going to convince the old Portuguese guys in the area to change their booze buying habits from the Beer Store to Walfart!

 

[bearcat]

Didn't Loblaws stop selling alcohol at a bunch of its stores not too long ago? Like the one near Bathurst and Queen. And I think the FreshCo on Bathurst north of Dundas also stopped selling alcohol.

Some Toronto grocery stores have cut beer and wine sales. This is why

A handful of grocers in Toronto have stopped selling alcohol due to rising levels of theft and razor-thin margins.

toronto.ctvnews.ca

Do you think them getting a license means they will actually start selling alcohol at all licensed stores? Does the new licensing allow them to charge more than the LCBO, like convinience stores? I guess if that's the case it makes sense for them to bring alcohol sales back, with higher prices to make up for previously low margins and theft.

A handful of additional supermarkets have been granted full wine/beer/cocktail licenses; some will not be effective until the end of November.

Longos Liberty Village
Davidson's Loblaws City Market at Yonge/Lawrence
Mike's Independent City Market on Peter Street
and not at all downtown......
But the Food Basics on Sandhurst Circle (Woodside Square Mall)

***

In general, so far, it looks to me like Metro will roll out booze sales to all of their properties (Metro and Food Basics) where space permits.

Longos appears to be going chain-wide for the full line stores, but will also do the mini-store in Brookfield Place.

Sobeys will see sales at all full-line stores, and some urban fresh locations.

Loblaws will have sales at most/all Loblaws branded outlets, but so far rollout to No Frills seems very light. But, the No Frills at Dufferin Mall has a license.

Independents: A1 Premium and Bestco have picked up licenses.

Walmart is going fairly wide and has 3 stores in Scarborough w/licenses, but does not appear to have obtained one for Gerrard Square or Dufferin Mall.

No sign of any licenses for Whole Foods

 

[Northern Light]

Another new mini-No Frills is coming..........this one to Mt. Pleasant and Eglinton in a former Shopper's Drug Mart:

Opens Thursday November 14th.

 

[khris]

Any idea when the one on Shuter St. will open?

 

[Northern Light]

Any idea when the one on Shuter St. will open?

They have their permits, but hadn't started fit out as of 2 weeks ago.

So not sure.

I think Esplande is due up next, and Shuter will follow, but don't hold me to that.

@Bibi L should be keeping an eye on that location.

 

[mburrrrr]

They have their permits, but hadn't started fit out as of 2 weeks ago.

So not sure.

I think Esplande is due up next, and Shuter will follow, but don't hold me to that.

@Bibi L should be keeping an eye on that location.

Church and Esplanade NoFrills is supposed to open in mid/late December as per a contractor on site a few weeks ago.
Sheetmetal going in now, shelves and coolers are on site.

Selfie stick reaching above the paper window covering late Saturday and go figure, people were working in there.

 

[Northern Light]

Church and Esplanade NoFrills is supposed to open in mid/late December as per a contractor on site a few weeks ago.
Sheetmetal going in now, shelves and coolers are on site.

View attachment 609253

Selfie stick reaching above the paper window covering late Saturday and go figure, people were working in there.
View attachment 609254

That sounds about right, by look, its about 4 weeks for physical fit-out, then you have some training on site, plus stock up, that's about 3-4 days, so that's second week of December or so .

 

[RGB_11]

That sounds about right, by look, its about 4 weeks for physical fit-out, then you have some training on site, plus stock up, that's about 3-4 days, so that's second week of December or so .

I wonder what Metro thinks of all this? This new No Frills won't be all that far away...

 

[Northern Light]

I wonder what Metro thinks of all this? This new No Frills won't be all that far away...

The market here is growing rapidly, that Metro does very good numbers, I don't think it will phase them any.