The Bar Towel

Just wondering what people do to return empty bomber bottles to TBS. It is easy to return regular 12 oz bottles but putting them right back in the cases they came. But what do I do with the 40 or 50 500 ml- 750 ml bottles that I have sitting in the basement right now? How do you guys bring these back?

I NEVER buy beer at TBS, so returning them little by little each time I go to grab new beer isn't really a possibility...

They have black boxes you can put them in once you get there. Or you can stick them in pretty much any old box and they'll usually take that. Some people have had bad experiences trying to bring back bottles that were not purchased in ON, but I don't think it has ever happened to me. They wouldn't recognize anything but Corona or Coors Light anyway, so it's all foreign to TBS folks.

It's illegal to encourage you to nick a few of those milk crates from Nielson or Sealtest. Even though they're just lying behind stores for the taking, they belong to the dairy. But I have heard those are ideal for carrying wine bottles and bombers.

Oh yeah and divided wine/spirit cartons from the LC are perfect also, the TBS will recycle those for you too if you like. Remember that containers over 630 ml have a depost of 20 cents, not ten cents!

I usually grab an empty wine box or two on my way out of the LCBO.

Streets wrote:I usually grab an empty wine box or two on my way out of the LCBO.

I thought about that but i would need 5 or 6 of those right now.

Thanks for the tips guys.

I mostly use recyclable shopping bags

icemachine wrote:I mostly use recyclable shopping bags

When you do that, do they just take your word for how many empties you are returning? I had though of doing that as well but wondered if they would insist on counting each bottle?

I take them out of the bags and stack them in the black bins, separating the 10c/20c bottles. I use 3 different TBS for returns and never have a problem

Streets wrote:I usually grab an empty wine box or two on my way out of the LCBO.

I usually grab one on the way in, fill it with some wine a couple 650 or 750 ml bottles of beer and I'm done. I hate the way bottles roll around in the cart or basket. Then I save the box and when its full of empties the whole thing goes back to TBS.

I saw a guy one time putting bottles from the cart onto the cash desk and he just caught the 1.5l bottle of red wine on the edge of the desk. It exploded and the mess and spray was unbelievable.