Dear Editor:
I read with interest the May 18 article concerning a potential new wine store at the Onni development and the concern of local liquor store owners.
Comments were made as to the increased availability of wine being bad and causing social ills.
Surely increased competition and resulting consumer choice is a good thing?
Having lived in another country where liquor is available at every supermarket, off-licence and corner store people are not running wild on the streets because of it. Merely enjoying the “free market” economy.
Maybe the “social ills” comment is just a way to deflect potential increased competition? It’s 2016 and time to embrace change.
Blaine Barden
North Vancouver
Editor’s note: City of North Vancouver council voted 5-2 on June 20 to allow Liberty Wine Merchants to open at 1308 Lonsdale Ave.
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