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‘QUEEN!'S Cross maneger Dave Crown worries about
the impact of Sunday liquor stora openings.

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The LDB alo plans to open
its Orchard Park store in
Kelowna on Sundays. Its all
part of a scheme to introduce
Sunday openings in) what the
LDB terms “high density
tourist areas,”

Dave Crown, f man-
ager of the Queen's ss pub
and beer and wine store: in
Upper Lonsdate, doesnt think
Park Roval is any such thing,

“There's no way it qualifies.”
he said. Crown said the province
signed an agreement with the
B.C. Liquor Licensee and
Retailer's Assexiation (BCLE-
RA) in fanuary of 1999,
promising that it would only
offer Sunday openings in key
tourist. areas like Whistler,
downtown Vancouver, and
downtown Victoria, and would
not open any branches on
Sundays if there was a chance
local beer and wine stores would
be aflected.

Pasieka said she wasn’t aware
of any signed agreement. She
stid several recommended
changes had been made to
liquor ticensing after an inde-
pendent review last year.

She said the changes are
intended to update liquor
eensing in the province, reduce
red tape and bring B.C. more in

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he with liquor policies in other
provinces. “We are not.” she
said,
policy change.”

Park Royal is one of eight
stores in the province te open
Sundays, and was seen as “the
ently liquor store on the way to
Whistler, Sechelt, and the tourist
attractions you can get to from
the North Shore,” said Pasicka.

Said Crown, “To was most
upset to bear the government
was charging ahead with Sunday
openings. There's an unques-
conable impact (on beer and
Wine stores), We can’t compete
with the LDB.”

Said Al Reidlinger, co-owner
of Sailor Hagar’s pub and store

in Lower Lonsdale, “It's sort of

another nail, We took a real hit
last vear when they started tak-
ing credit cards.

“They haven't adjusted the
discount to compete on a fair
basis. They give us. a 10 per cent
discount. In any retail business,

it's hard to five with that kind of

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nience away, what's left?”

Pasicka said there were no
plans to reduce the discount of
stock tor beer and wine stores.

She said the Sunday oper:
ings are only from noon to 6
pam. and are intended to “aug:
ment and improve customer
service, The beer and wine
stores offer refrigeration --
most of our stores don't. We are
the only retaifer who sells spirits,
and we have a wider variety of
products.”

Crown said the BCLLERA
has had no response to letters
sent to former ministers lan
Waddell, Jov McPhail, and tor-
mer LDB general manager Jay
Chambers. The assoviation has
bow cequesied ain urgent meet-
ing with the LDB.

OF business at the Queen's
Cross this past Sunday, Crown
sud, “Is was sower, But it was
only the first: weekend, In
Whistler (where nwo branches

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are pew open Sundays), the
beer and wine stores are down
50 per cent.

“The LDB has much more
product, and they sell liquor,
which we don't have. They also.
have cred card use, which they
didivt ue te have. “They have
become aur main competition.
[es totaly unfair that our sole
agent by design becomes our
main competitor.” Crown said
the BCLURA wants Park Roval
and Orchard Park te stay closed
on Sundays and statutory holi-
days. He said the association
would prefer to settle the maner
with the LDB, burt is also pursu-
ing legal opinion.

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