Another tipping question...
May 10th 2007 | 1:14 am
#46
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Re: Another tipping question...
I think so. Last year I compared Wolf Blass Yellow label at 5.99 in Tescos and $16odd in NLC stores. $16 feels more to me here than GBP5.99 did in UK certainly. There's also less choice here even in the more metropoliton stores but that's almost certainly a Newfoundland thing rather than a Canadian thing. (Although the liquor store on Water St in St. John's is on two levels and has a very extensive wine cellar.) I miss the buy 5 get one free offers from Tescos as well. Here getting a buck off a bottle is a big deal.
May 10th 2007 | 1:16 am
#47
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Re: Another tipping question...
Contrast that with Applejack's Discount Liquor Barn which looks like a K Mart but keeps wines discounted 50% to $1500 or Trader Joe's, the home of the excellent Two Buck Chuck California Cabs. What we need isn't beer in corner stores; it's wine in Loblaws, President's Choice Chardonney.
May 10th 2007 | 1:19 am
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Re: Another tipping question...
Two floors of elborate shop fittings. Unionised staff with benefits. Service when they feel like it. The LCBO is very much a government department.
Contrast that with Applejack's Discount Liquor Barn which looks like a K Mart but keeps wines discounted 50% to $1500 or Trader Joe's, the home of the excellent Two Buck Chuck California Cabs. What we need isn't beer in corner stores; it's wine in Loblaws, President's Choice Chardonney.
Contrast that with Applejack's Discount Liquor Barn which looks like a K Mart but keeps wines discounted 50% to $1500 or Trader Joe's, the home of the excellent Two Buck Chuck California Cabs. What we need isn't beer in corner stores; it's wine in Loblaws, President's Choice Chardonney.
Then you will see 5 bottles of wine for $5 :P
May 10th 2007 | 1:22 am
#49
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Re: Another tipping question...
Unfortunately alcohol sales in Canada are largely a provincial government run monopoly so Tesco's wouldn't be allowed to open a shop and sell wines. Nor would Loblaws, etc etc. No competition means no price discounting. It's the Canadian way.
May 10th 2007 | 1:27 am
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Re: Another tipping question...
There's more to it than that, the Liquor Control Board of Ontario really is as much about control as about sales, there's a strong moralist current in Ontario; not so much born again or neo-con as always Presby.
May 10th 2007 | 1:28 am
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Re: Another tipping question...
Two floors of elborate shop fittings. Unionised staff with benefits. Service when they feel like it. The LCBO is very much a government department.
Contrast that with Applejack's Discount Liquor Barn which looks like a K Mart but keeps wines discounted 50% to $1500 or Trader Joe's, the home of the excellent Two Buck Chuck California Cabs. What we need isn't beer in corner stores; it's wine in Loblaws, President's Choice Chardonney.
Contrast that with Applejack's Discount Liquor Barn which looks like a K Mart but keeps wines discounted 50% to $1500 or Trader Joe's, the home of the excellent Two Buck Chuck California Cabs. What we need isn't beer in corner stores; it's wine in Loblaws, President's Choice Chardonney.
May 10th 2007 | 1:28 am
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Re: Another tipping question...
(Not that I think that is always a good thing!)
May 10th 2007 | 1:31 am
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Re: Another tipping question...
May 10th 2007 | 1:36 am
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Re: Another tipping question...
For once, I'd like to see Walmart succeed.
My local Costco sells booze. It's no cheaper than anywhere else, which is a bit telling, and the wine section has an SAQ sign on it, which is also a rather clear sign as to who's in charge.
My local Costco sells booze. It's no cheaper than anywhere else, which is a bit telling, and the wine section has an SAQ sign on it, which is also a rather clear sign as to who's in charge.
May 10th 2007 | 1:37 am
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May 10th 2007 | 1:42 am
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Re: Another tipping question...
If you smoke then that may be a harder adjustment, generally Canadians don't drink much and are very sanctimonious about cigarettes, though they are huge stoners. Luckily, everyone in the food service business smokes and drinks.
May 10th 2007 | 1:45 am
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Re: Another tipping question...
Well I HAD quit up until I got some Canadian smokes left infront of me the week before last...
Now I'm back to 30 cups of coffee a day and too many cigs!
Don't drink much? - Clearly I know the low brows, no brows and ignorami of Toronto then?
haha..
May 10th 2007 | 1:52 am
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I'm not sure I agree about the drinking. It's certainly true that "session" drinking is less common here but I think that there is a lot of drinking going on in the home. My local gas station stocks more beer than my local supermarket. Two more gas stations within a half-mile radius also carry vast stocks. Stroll around my neighbourhood when it's nice and the garage doors are open and you'll see the stacks of 24s.
May 10th 2007 | 1:55 am
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