Question for my fellow Canadian friends: where can you buy spirits and liquor in Canada? I imagine at local liquor stores like in the U.S.A. but not sure. Can you buy beer and wine at grocery stores?
53' Stude said:EVERYWHERE.
Seriously, within a 10 minute drive from my house there are about 20, yes, TWENTY liquor stores. These include Costco, grocery store chain stores and independents. Grocery store liquor stores MUST be separate from the regular grocery store.
We used to have government owned and operated liquor stores, but they were privatized many years ago.
Now we have legal marijuana stores too ...
But they all have to sell from the same catalogue of products. That's why there's no 'store brands' of alcohol or (legal) marihuana in Canada. And producers can't really together with liquor retailers and do cross-promotions (ie: "get your Brand X liquor from chain store Y") with those archaic (and quite frankly, abusive) government wholesaling monopolies in place.