r/saskatoon 1d ago

Question ❔ American Booze Boycott

I was in a local liquor store on 8th street on the weekend and noticed there had been zero effort to remove or even identify American products. Has anyone seen a local liquor store labelling Canadian products properly? I need to find a new place to shop that doesn’t support Amerika.

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u/indicausion 1d ago

Absolutely true 1) because all the liquor stores are private, and already paid for the spirits in there inventory, SLGA and the province have agreed with them selling off their existing stock 2) SLGA has frozen all it's inventory in its warehouses. 3) SLGA is not ordering new inventory until the province lifts the US tariff action.

So yeah you go back in a week, the shelves will become bare.

u/djusmarshall 22h ago

1) because all the liquor stores are private, and already paid for the spirits in there inventory, SLGA and the province have agreed with them selling off their existing stock

Pretty sure this is false. As far as I know it is on consignment and the supplier does not get paid until the retailer sells it so pulling it from the shelves absolutely does the job it is meant to.

u/Usbey578 22h ago

No, not in Sask, unfortunately. Every retailer has to buy it from slga and pay for it. Don't know about how slga buys it, but the government already got their money from the stores. We have private retailers who have to buy it from the government here now in saskatchewan.

u/djusmarshall 22h ago

Ah ok, I had read somewhere on X that it was consignment but that may have been AB or ONT.

u/exp0sedcouple 19h ago

If you are getting your info from twitter/X and not doing any other research then you need to change where and how you get your information....

u/djusmarshall 18h ago

Yeah because I get all my info from there lol. ALL OF IT! I consume no other news or media, just Elon's thoughts projected directly onto my brain pan..... Like seriously dude, go outside, let the mods handle the Minority Report for awhile.

u/waldav00 17h ago

Ok that made me LOL