“Doug Ford is trying to distract voters with a reckless pledge to put beer in corner stores,” the Premier of Ontario tweeted Tuesday. “It’s not safe and it’s not sensible, unlike our balanced approach to adding beer and wine to grocery stores.”Convenience stores: reckless. There are hundreds of convenience stores, corner stores, general stores and other kinds of retail operations in rural areas of Ontario that are licensed to sell beer, wine and liquor. But to ascribe those results to the retail model itself — convenience store, supermarket, private liquor store, public liquor store — is absurd. Some of us, that is, see very little conceptual difference at all between beer in supermarkets and beer in convenience stores.

Source: National Post May 23, 2018 21:52 UTC