sf wrote:

> Forget about what I posted before.... I just remembered an experience
> I had in Victoria BC a couple of years ago. I was in a wine shop
> looking at vast isles of wines I wasn't familiar with and saw a well
> dressed man going quickly down the isles putting a few of this and a
> couple of that in his cart. He certainly knew what he liked, so I
> asked him for some advice which he gave me (and I enjoyed the wines).
> It turned out he was a local restaurateur stocking up for the evening.
> I didn't ask him if that was the way he usually shopped or if he was
> between deliveries.

It is pretty much the same here. The beer store delivers beer, but wine
and liquor are purchased at the government liquor stores. This goes back
to what I suggested in another post about how restaurants would need a
healthy return of vintage bottles that they had to cellar and in which
they had a lot of money tied up for years. But restaurants don't do that
here. They offer a limited number of red and whites, and when stocks run
low they scoot over to the LCBO to pick up some more. They need to make
some profit, but 100-200% narkup is a bit excessive, especially on the
more expensive wines.