LCBO / The Beer Store

[Northern Light]

Latest round of Beer-selling grocery stores is out.

https://news.ontario.ca/mof/en/2018...stores-authorized-to-sell-beer-and-cider.html

Of note for our urban-minded lot:

Metro College Park
Metro Front Street
Freshco Vic Park and Gerrard
Loblaws at Moore and Bayview
No Frills on Lansdowne
No Frills on Carlaw
Longos on Laird
RCSS at Don Mills and Steeles
Fortinos on Lawrence West

 

[Northern Light]

As per a different discussion thread, the Metro at College Park is overcrowded at it is; to both find shelving room and room for additional customers ........

I hope an expansion/reno is contemplated.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

As per a different discussion thread, the Metro at College Park is overcrowded at it is; to both find shelving room and room for additional customers ........

I hope an expansion/reno is contemplated.

The place is falling apart, has the surliest staff and forget about getting fresh baked goods before 8 in the morning.

AoD

 

[Towered]

The best No Frills in the city is going to sell booze - perfect!

 

[TransitBart]

Where will we drop the empties when the beer stores all close?

 

[PinkLucy]

The best No Frills in the city is going to sell booze - perfect!

Which one is that?

 

[DSC]

Where will we drop the empties when the beer stores all close?

They collect the empties for a fee and a far better solution (for the customer) would be that you could always return things for the deposit to the place you bought them. I am surrounded by LCBOs but live in a Beer Store desert!

 

[gabe]

Where will we drop the empties when the beer stores all close?

In the rest of the modern world, people take their empties back to the bottle return machines at the grocery stores. You can get either cash back or store credit.

 

[innsertnamehere]

Which one is that?

Gerrard/Carlaw? I don't find it particularly better, than, say, Front/Sherbourne. Gerrard/Carlaw has become my preferred location now that Front/Sherbourne has axed its free underground parking though. I don't particularly care for fighting for a parking spot in the tiny surface lot. Gerrard/Carlaw is a pretty big store though, bigger than any other No Frills I can think of.

Lansdowne is pretty nice as well, but i've only been once or twice.

 

[PinkLucy]

In some states, empties just go into recycling.

 

[Fritter]

In some states, empties just go into recycling.

It happens here too. I knew someone who worked for Millar waste, and supplemented his income by picking out Beer/Liquor bottles out of curbside blue bins. Millar frowned upon this practice, as they lost money, but employees still did it.

 

[Skeezix]

It happens here too. I knew someone who worked for Millar waste, and supplemented his income by picking out Beer/Liquor bottles out of curbside blue bins. Millar frowned upon this practice, as they lost money, but employees still did it.

The men and women who rummage around in blue bins on residential streets on recycling day are the most obvious sign that people toss some of these bottles away.

 

[Northern Light]

In some states, empties just go into recycling.

@PinkLucy and @gabe are both on point.

If the objective is recycling as opposed to reuse, then putting the contents in your blue bin is just fine; with automated machines being an option which can provide
some cash-back for those who wish (the benefit for gov't/retail being accurate sorting and low contamination rates.)

If, however, the objective is reuse then that's different, and blue bins are not really workable.

It should be noted there is no reuse currently for wine bottles, liquor bottles or beer cans. Reuse is limited entirely to beer bottles.

 

[PinkLucy]

The states that I am familiar with don't offer cash back, so bottles go in the blue bin because there is no other choice.

 

[lenaitch]

I was on a bike trip last summer in eastern Ohio (Appalachia) and we stayed at a hotel that was offering free beer and tacos (gotta love US liquor laws). As we were cleaning up I asked where the recycling was for the beer cans - I got a blank stare. No diversion of any kind; all into the landfill.