The luxury of buying beer and wine in a grocery store may not be coming to Prince George.
In the guidelines announced today by the province, grocery stores within 1 kilometre from an existing liquor store are not allowed to sell booze.
All 4 Save on Foods’ in PG and Superstore fall under that category right now.
Minister of Justice Suzanne Anton says sales will be also restricted to grocery stores over 10,000 square feet;
“In order to define a store as a grocery store, you need to find out how much of it is grocery. The easiest way to do that is simply with the receipts from the till. We don’t have a final number but it will be somewhere around 75% of receipts from grocery”
Big box stores such as Costco and Walmart won’t make the cut.
The grocery stores would have the option to buy out surrounding liquor licenses but it remains to be seen if that will happen.
Save on Foods was not available for comment.
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