nickw wrote:I've actually got no real conception of what 10,000 square feet looks like in grocery store form. Does anyone have a better idea, using stores in the downtown Toronto area as comparables?
nickw wrote:I've actually got no real conception of what 10,000 square feet looks like in grocery store form. Does anyone have a better idea, using stores in the downtown Toronto area as comparables?
Masterplan wrote:I should open a 'grocery' store. Get a couple racks of non perishable foods. Set the prices unreasonably high so nobody buys them, and thus I don't have to worry about restocking them too often. Then start just selling beer...
Wonder what the minimum standard to be considered a grocery store is?
cratez wrote:Farm Boy and Longo's might hold some promise, but the rest will likely stock as much macro beer as they can get away with.
nickw wrote:I've actually got no real conception of what 10,000 square feet looks like in grocery store form. Does anyone have a better idea, using stores in the downtown Toronto area as comparables?
Cass wrote:I really did contemplate submitting a bid with a grocery store idea. But it was clear that they wanted real stores, and the rules imposed (size of store, etc.) prohibited the type of place I'd want to open (a small neighbourhood store, a la Publican Quality Meats in Chicago). It's classic Ontario, locking out any kind of entrepreneurial possibility within the business of beer when it comes to retail. Yet another time I have to say "It's a shame" with beer here.
spinrsx wrote:can someone remind me, will this grocery store stuff result in any type of NEW beers that we won't/don't have at the lcbo/beerstore?
Craig wrote:spinrsx wrote:can someone remind me, will this grocery store stuff result in any type of NEW beers that we won't/don't have at the lcbo/beerstore?
No. Everything they sell has to come from the 'BO or TBS.
There's a chance that a grocery chain could go get an import license and start bringing in exclusive offerings (which would still have to come through the LCBO, but wouldn't hit LCBO shelves) but we haven't had any indication yet that any grocers are planning to bother with that.
BlackRedGold wrote:Craig wrote:spinrsx wrote:can someone remind me, will this grocery store stuff result in any type of NEW beers that we won't/don't have at the lcbo/beerstore?
No. Everything they sell has to come from the 'BO or TBS.
There's a chance that a grocery chain could go get an import license and start bringing in exclusive offerings (which would still have to come through the LCBO, but wouldn't hit LCBO shelves) but we haven't had any indication yet that any grocers are planning to bother with that.
So a grocery store couldn't go to an Ontario brewery , say Bellwoods, and ask them to start supplying them through the LCBO?
admviolin wrote:nickw wrote:I've actually got no real conception of what 10,000 square feet looks like in grocery store form. Does anyone have a better idea, using stores in the downtown Toronto area as comparables?
Can we use Rabba foods as a unit of measurement? I think 10k square feet would be about two Rabbas
Even the smallest No Frills I can think of exceeds 10k. Maybe about the size of a Shoppers Drug Mart?
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