The same tax dollars will still be returned.
Ontarians won’t be on the hook for legacy pension plans.
Corner stores seem quite capable of reusing tobacco sales to minors.
Joe’s corner store would be just as able to purchase whatever you’re looking for.
Do you seriously think, with regulations, that corner stores would sell a fucking six pack to an impaired guy for a buck in profits if the fine for doing so was like, $50,000?
Honest to God.
Yeah, me too.
So once I just said, in all seriousness, “I don’t know. What was I looking for?”
Generally, because the boss demands it and they’ll be penalized if they don’t.
Wow! Where do you find these employees to ask? The only employees at the stores I visit seem mostly to be either at the checkout counter or hidden in the back room.
No, I couldn’t find any prop wash in your cleaning supplies aisle.
I’m still a fan of good pensions for everyone, and a fan of good wages, which provincial liquor stores tend to provide, unlike Joe’s corner store. If a job’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well, and it’s worth getting paid well to do it. So I buy my booze at the gov’t stores and avoid the private stores. But I’m polite to all the clerks I encounter, because it’s a tough job and they can’t fight back. As to whether a private store would take a risk and sell something illegally, well, they do keep getting caught in sting operations, so yeah, some of them do. And while Lenin apparently never said it, there is some truth in the observation that “capitalists will sell you the rope you hang them with.”
Hee. Our Home Depot is the worst. They either actively avoid your eye and run the other way, or ask if you need help and then can’t direct you to the right place. :smack:
But I know the feeling. I started work at Jo-Ann Fabric with essentially no training and would be paralyzed with fear when someone turned toward me with “Where can I find the…”
Indeed. And my points stand: the government liquor outlet (speaking of the LCBO in Ontario, where I and Leaffan (I believe) both live) is best equipped to prevent liquor sales to minors and drunks, and as the largest single institutional purchaser of liquor in the entire world, they can offer selection and amenities that no one else could.
Additionally to the points already made, do you seriously think that an untrained stoned doofus making minimum wage in some corner dump to support his dope purchases and a don’t-give-a-shit attitude about the world is going to be your best gatekeeper in the critical matter of liquor sales – sales to a teen or a drunk who might then be driving? I know it works at the LCBO because I’ve seen it – kids being carded, kids being declined, and drunks sent away empty-handed.
ETA: Though I would concur with Leaffan that the union representing LCBO workers is rather aggressive and getting somewhat beyond reason. And apologies to all for the hijack, I don’t think we need to hear any more about liquor sales. 
Yes, but after all that, does LCBO stock what you drink?
IOW, Did you find everything you were looking for?
Once the cashier at a restaurant asked if everything had been okay. Well, I had an issue with the waitress, so I told her “No, it wasn’t”. She was surprised, then asked me if I’d like to speak to the manager and I said “Yes”.
Yep! 
They have a great site where you can browse or search the product catalog, and a useful feature where you enter your postal code and for any given product they list all the stores within any arbitrary distance that has it in stock and the current inventory level in each. It’s very useful for their limited-supply one-time wine purchases.
I can usually find someone without a problem, unless it’s at Target. I can never find someone at Target.
I’m also the type who spends 20 minutes looking for it myself before I actually ask.