B.C. Wine Can be Sold in Grocery Stores April 1st
Justice Minister Suzanne Anton Video courtesy Government of BC Prince George, B.C. – No fooling, grocery stores in B.C. will be able to stock 100% B.C. wine on their shelves as early as April 1, 2015. This is the first phase of the liquor in grocery store model, while phase two will see existing VQA stores and independent wine stores able to relocate or transfer their license to an eligible grocery store, as long as the license is only used to sell 100% B.C. wine. These licenses are not subject to the one-kilometer restrictions, allowing more flexibility and choice of locations when moving into a grocery store. A limited number of new licences will also be made available specifically for the 100% B.C. wine-on-shelves model. Details on these licences will be available in the new year. To ensure continued health and public safety protections, all off-the-shelf wine transactions will need to be done at designated registers, staffed by employees who have Serving It Right certification and are at least 19 years old.
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Grocery stores will be able to stock wine, but will they have any say in how it’s priced? I’m guessing no.
And they can only sell 100% B.C. Wine? Who comes up with this stuff?
100% BC Wine only… probably because a BC winery owner gave up his seat for Christy to run in Kelowna after losing her own Pt Grey seat. Wink wink, nudge nudge.
Someone must think that BC Wine is a vastly inferior product to invoke such a protectionist policy to support it.
Just allow all liquor to be sold in grocery stores like the rest of the world and get rid of the army of public service bureaucrats that work controlling liquor in this province. You’d save millions on salaries.
One of my friends has been working in a BCLB store for 30+ years. Obscene wage and benefits doesn’t even begin to describe what he makes for stocking shelves, and taking bottle returns.
Funny rules, one can buy wine, beer, spirits at the willow river store
As lame as it is, at least it’s a step in the right direction.
And yes, BC wine is inferior at its competing price point.
Pylot, that’s exactly what I’ve been saying for years!!
I like your thoughts there Pylot
I had similar ones.
Hopefully they stock silver sage!!
So let’s have everyone make minimum wage and no benefits.
No seamutt, let’s not have everyone make minimum wage and no benefits but let’s make it make sense. When a person on clean-up or stocking shelves or government clerk makes as much or more than a university grad, teacher or tradesperson, there’s something wrong in all that.
Booster, a university grad who choose the soft sciences.. Sociology, psychology etc make what’s it’s worth..not much. You can’t compare all university grads to each other.. To huge of a variance. Trades make such a huge difference can’t really use them as an example.. Teachers make about $75,000 .. So now anyone who really knows the true wage of a worker of 30 yrs for the government makes..please let us know so we can use real numbers instead of just saying they make to much and their benefits are to good.
Clark makes well,over $100,000 a year plus $500,000 on her visa that we pay.. Guess that’s okay though, even though she supposedly works for us…
I have no idea how the BCLC pay structure works, but I would be very, very surprised if any ‘worker stocking the shelves’ made more than $60K. The vast majority of employees in the BC Public Service earn less than $60K a year from what I’ve seen.
Posted on Friday, December 19, 2014 @ 1:06 PM by Pylot Project
“100% BC Wine only… probably because a BC winery owner gave up his seat for Christy to run in Kelowna after losing her own Pt Grey seat. Wink wink, nudge nudge.”
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Or maybe because a former minister is building a winery in PG as we speak
Posted on Friday, December 19, 2014 @ 5:13 PM by seamutt
So let’s have everyone make minimum wage and no benefits.
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Thats their ultimate goal!
Posted on Friday, December 19, 2014 @ 7:12 PM by Booster
No seamutt, let’s not have everyone make minimum wage and no benefits but let’s make it make sense. When a person on clean-up or stocking shelves or government clerk makes as much or more than a university grad, teacher or tradesperson, there’s something wrong in all that.
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No, whats wrong is the price of alcohol.
Here is some true numbers taken from the government contract online
Starting wage for a gov employee is $28,405 per year
Max wage which takes 165 grades above starting wage is $87,932
Not bad..but not great.. Figure a tradesman makes the same if not more than top gov employee after getting their ticket.. 4-5 yrs..
Because P Val asked….
My friend makes $58K/yr, 6 weeks holiday, benefits package a person could only dream of, and a full indexed pension when he retires at 55, which is only 4 year away.
His wife works for CMCH for the same 30+ years, $82K/yr, same holidays, benefits and indexed pension. Part of her benefit package is free iPhones, up to 5 per family. No I’m not making that one up.
Should have read CMHC
Pylot posted: “My friend makes $58K/yr, 6 weeks holiday, benefits package a person could only dream of, and a full indexed pension when he retires at 55, which is only 4 year away.”
Wow – for a job that is EASIER than a cashier at save on. Our staunch union supporters must love paying taxes. I find it humorous that one of the most diehard “rah rah pay them lots go union” guys above is also complaining about the price of alcohol. Lol – maybe we should pay them in fairy dust?
Pylot, 58k a yr after 30 yrs seems fine. Same with the 82k.
Posted on Friday, December 19, 2014 @ 9:12 PM by Dragonmaster
Posted on Friday, December 19, 2014 @ 1:06 PM by Pylot Project
“100% BC Wine only… probably because a BC winery owner gave up his seat for Christy to run in Kelowna after losing her own Pt Grey seat. Wink wink, nudge nudge.”
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Or maybe because a former minister is building a winery in PG as we speak
Just a lucky coincidence. ☻
The automated cashiers make nothing interceptor, except take the jobs of real people.
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