Dear Editor:
I really appreciated your article "Liquor Changes on Tap for Grocery Stores" in the North Shore News Feb. 9. I appreciated your thorough discussion and realistic look.
My view: I say no to liquor sold in grocery stores. It is totally unnecessary. Most liquor stores are already within a short range of grocery stores. I agree, it would raise the liquor price to consumers and limit choice.
Independent stores would go out of business.
Government policy by survey or referendum is flawed. Just because government had a public survey that many people thought it was a good idea, doesn't make it so.
Perhaps the public survey was incomplete.Were people asked if they want to buy liquor in McDonald's restaurants? A&W restaurants? 7-Eleven stores? Community centres? Movie theatres? Gas stations? Office buildings? Book stores? Libraries? Sidewalk street vendors? Mail order delivery?
People don't need just one store to buy everything: gas, clothes, books, groceries, liquor, hamburgers, sandwiches, milk, baby food, prescriptions, postage stamps.
Merrilee Miller
North Vancouver
