"Good thing there's a monopoly"
“Unionized employees at the SAQ are launching a four day strike that will shut down Quebec liquor board stores for the weekend.” Says the Montreal CBC site.
The SAQ is Quebec’s government owned liquor monopoly. Non-SAQ stores can sell only bad wine and some beer. (No, really, there’s a list of approved wines that others can sell. Its all bad.) They do an ok job with it, but they get way too much (50-60% of each store, as I recall) French wine. When asked why, they explain that that’s what sells.
Maybe if they go on strike, it will lead to legalized competition in liquor sales.
We can hope.
Damn, I’m out of scotch!
1) Hoho, it is to laugh. So the most corrupt government north of the Rio Grande would give up it’s monopoly on liquor sales? The other option is to legislate the employees back to work. I know which option I think they’ll take.
2) ‘Cybot … hoho, it is to laugh. I just picked up a bottle of Springbank last week.
What? Louisiana has a monopoly on liqour sales?