Dear Editor
I’m wondering why the B.C. Liquor Stores treat the New West market as second-class.
Neither of the two government outlets carry my beer of choice in six-pack cans (Phillips Blue Buck, if you’re able to print this), but this beer can be found in every Vancouver outlet that I have gone to. Yesterday, I went to the government liquor store at the mall at Royal and Columbia, having decided to get a six-pack of another, more common beer. But, lo and behold, they didn’t carry this beer in six-pack cans either.
I asked the clerk why their stock of six-pack cans was so deficient, and he told me that they focus on 12-packs rather than six-packs, because they make more on the larger size. Strange, as New West seems to have the only outlets where this factor is a priority.
I then drove to the B.C. Liquor Store at Highgate in Burnaby (Kingsway and Edmonds), and bought a six-pack of cans of the beer I initially wanted (Phillips Blue Buck). Burnaby, it seems, is a step up from New West, at least in the eyes of B.C. Liquor Stores.
Harvey Wolfson, by email
