Breaking News: NDP pledges to up beer prices!
Добавлено: 30 апр 2009, 10:03
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In what the industry is calling the NDP's "six-pack attack," private store owners are warning an NDP win on May 12 could increase the price of a half-sack of suds by three dollars! Private beer stores currently account for 55 per cent of all the brew sold in B.C. and James has vowed to jack up their wholesale costs by six percentage points. (Private wholesalers receive a 16-per-cent discount on government store retail prices. The NDP wants to roll that back to just 10 per cent.)
"It would mean a $12 six-pack could jump to $15," Kim Haakstad, executive director of the Alliance of Beverage Licensees of B.C., told me yesterday. "I think this is the first time in a history a political party has run a campaign on a promise to increase beer prices."
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In what the industry is calling the NDP's "six-pack attack," private store owners are warning an NDP win on May 12 could increase the price of a half-sack of suds by three dollars! Private beer stores currently account for 55 per cent of all the brew sold in B.C. and James has vowed to jack up their wholesale costs by six percentage points. (Private wholesalers receive a 16-per-cent discount on government store retail prices. The NDP wants to roll that back to just 10 per cent.)
"It would mean a $12 six-pack could jump to $15," Kim Haakstad, executive director of the Alliance of Beverage Licensees of B.C., told me yesterday. "I think this is the first time in a history a political party has run a campaign on a promise to increase beer prices."
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