{"id":34381,"date":"2024-05-29T18:43:45","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T22:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=34381"},"modified":"2024-05-29T18:43:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T22:43:45","slug":"is-the-beer-store-finished-experts-say-retail-operations-will-likely-close-as-corner-stores-start-selling-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=34381","title":{"rendered":"Is The Beer Store finished? Experts say retail operations will likely close as corner stores start selling beer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/6654c205d5e16.image_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"221\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">The Beer Store counters that it will &#8220;adapt and thrive,&#8221; by expanding its distribution fleet to service the new retail outlets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/business\/is-the-beer-store-finished-experts-say-retail-operations-will-likely-close-as-corner-stores\/article_a6f2ac48-1c37-11ef-bb10-c3ec718f14d9.html\">Is The Beer Store finished? Experts say retail operations will likely close as corner stores start selling beer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>and there was much rejoicing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>As part of the \u201cearly implementation agreement\u201d announced Friday, The Beer Store \u2014 which currently has 440 stores across the province \u2014 has to keep at least 386 stores open until July 1, 2025. From July 1, 2025 through the end of that year, they have to keep at least 300 open. The following year? There\u2019s no minimum store count mandated.<br><br>\u201cFrom and after Jan. 1, 2026, TBS shall be entitled to close any retail location as determined by TBS in its sole and absolute discretion,\u201d says the agreement.<br><br><br>The new agreement also gives The Beer Store the right to operate the Ontario Deposit Return Program until the end of 2030.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Beer Store counters that it will &#8220;adapt and thrive,&#8221; by expanding&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[51,1989,147],"class_list":["post-34381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-beer","tag-doug","tag-ontario","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34384,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34381\/revisions\/34384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}