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The details announced included criteria that would prevent both smaller convenience stores and big box stores from stocking booze.
"We're going to go with bigger than convenience stores, so not the corner stores," Attorney-General Suzanne Anton said Friday. "[And] smaller than general merchandise stores, so not department stores or big box stores."
Participating stores will be required to show that around 75 per cent of their sales are from food products, and their store is at least 10,000 square feet. There will be no minimum size requirement for the liquor retail space within the grocery store.
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.
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