The Beer Store owns a monopoly on all 12-pack and 24-pack beer sales in the province.
liquor sales
May 30, 2023
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Alberta’s liquor product selection has grown from 2,200 in 1993 to more than 31,000 today.
May 10, 2014
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Much of Canadas current approach to liquor retailing has its roots in Prohibition-era attitudes towards wine, beer and spirits.
February 15, 2014
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Its been two decades since the Alberta government exited the business of selling beer, wine and spirits to consumers.
September 8, 2013
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Twenty years ago the Alberta government swiftly and boldly threw open Alberta's markets in beer, wine and spirits. The result has been a success story of intense competition, added convenience and thousands of new jobs.
Other provincial governments have never imitated the Alberta accomplishment. But that has much to do with local politics and mythmaking from vested interests, not facts.
July 14, 2012
2:00AM
Anyone who recently visited Alberta for the 100th anniversary of the Calgary Stampede might have noticed something unusual about the province: not a single government liquor store.
Alberta does have a plethora of private stores, unlike say, Ontario, where I once drove around Cambridge for what seemed forever to find any shop, government or private, to buy wine for a dinner with relatives.
If youre lucky, your politicians will one day imitate Alberta. To that end, heres how Albertas private sector model came about.