{"id":916,"date":"2015-12-16T15:21:12","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T15:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.torontorentals.com\/blog\/?p=916"},"modified":"2015-12-16T15:22:50","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T15:22:50","slug":"which-toronto-grocery-stores-sell-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.torontorentals.com\/blog\/which-toronto-grocery-stores-sell-beer","title":{"rendered":"Which Toronto grocery stores sell beer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years, Europeans have had the luxury and convenience of picking up a bottle of wine or a six-pack of beers alongside the cheese and lettuce and eggs for tomorrow&#8217;s breakfast. Finally, Torontonians can grab beers at a few of the city&#8217;s grocery stores.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, 58 grocery stores and markets across the GTA were selling beer. Gone are the days of having to find a beer store to stock up on suds for watching the game on Sunday and for those Friday night pre-drinking get togethers with the guys.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, none are downtown \u2013 yet. But that&#8217;s set to change with more than 450 grocery stores planning to sell beer in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s where you can grab beer at Toronto grocery stores:<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Loblaws<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>17 Leslie St.<\/li>\n<li>50 Musgrave St.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Real Canadian Superstore<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>2549 Weston Rd.<\/li>\n<li>51 Gerry Fitzgerald Dr.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Coppa\u2019s Fresh Market<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>4750 Dufferin St.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Galleria Supermarket<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>856 York\u200e Mills Rd.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Toronto Star <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/queenspark\/2015\/12\/15\/beer-arrives-in-ontario-grocery-stores.html\" target=\"_blank\">gives itself a fair bit of credit<\/a> for getting beer into Toronto grocery stores. They published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/queenspark\/2015\/01\/26\/time-to-take-ownership-of-the-beer-store-cohn.html\" target=\"_blank\">this piece<\/a> slamming the Beer Store&#8217;s almost-monopoly on Ontario beer sales, and calling out the politicians who let the monopolization happen.<\/p>\n<p>Awesome fact: Loblaws is dedicating 50% of its shelf space for beer to local craft breweries, and the mandated amount for all grocers selling beer is at least 20%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, Europeans have had the luxury and convenience of picking up a bottle of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[220],"class_list":["post-916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-toronto"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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