{"id":38025,"date":"2017-04-17T01:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T05:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=38025"},"modified":"2017-04-07T09:35:27","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T13:35:27","slug":"qotd-the-dubious-value-add-of-the-lcbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/04\/17\/qotd-the-dubious-value-add-of-the-lcbo\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The dubious &#8220;value add&#8221; of the LCBO"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The liquor board\u2019s cocktail recipe of the month, offered on its website, is for \u201cgin and lemonade,\u201d which you make with a shot of gin and some lemonade. The gin is cherry, so there\u2019s that. Its three recommended beers of the month are themed for the hockey playoffs. They are \u2014 I am not kidding \u2014 Molson Canadian in a bottle, Molson Canadian in a can, and Molson Canadian in a larger can. The value the LCBO\u2019s adding that a private retailer couldn\u2019t is not obvious.<\/p>\n<p>David Reevely, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/news\/canada\/canadian-politics\/david-reevely-lcbo-union-uses-governments-rhetoric-against-it-in-brewing-labour-battle\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;LCBO union uses government\u2019s rhetoric against it in brewing labour battle&#8221;, <em>National Post<\/em><\/a>, 2017-04-06.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The liquor board\u2019s cocktail recipe of the month, offered on its website, is for \u201cgin and lemonade,\u201d which you make with a shot of gin and some lemonade. The gin is cherry, so there\u2019s that. Its three recommended beers of the month are themed for the hockey playoffs. They are \u2014 I am not kidding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[831,6,84,41],"tags":[210,395,428,469,87],"class_list":["post-38025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-cancon","category-government","category-quotations","tag-beer","tag-lcbo","tag-marketing","tag-monopolies","tag-ontario"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9Tj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38026,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38025\/revisions\/38026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}