A new survey by the Convenience Industry Council of Canada found that revenue on all products in convenience stores was up 12 per cent this September in Ontario compared to last fall.
Source: Ontario’s convenience stores were in trouble, until beer and wine sales. Now revenues are surging
tl;dr:: up 13% yoy weekdays, 33% for weekends (and presumably 3rd day on a long weekend?); replacing the declining tobacco revunue; small retails can’t take large deliveries (min delivery cases from TBS:48, TCBO:15; no mention of bottle return upcoming and how that will cut into profits.
i think small retails need to reduce stock, simplify; and maybe there could be a machine that takes bottles/cans/plastics and crushes and compact and makes it easier to be a bottle return operation. it sucked when we did it in the 80s at mom&dad’s mac’s milk at Oxford & Richmond, London, Ont.. and it’s still a Mac’s!!! or maube not; this pics is from 2022, and show closed; website goes to circlek.com
but circlek.com doesn’t show it. maybe they bought it for future store, or as eliminate the competition?
need to drive buy next time we’re in London. or ask mom?
