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Greater Freedom for Licensee Retail Stores

Written by Mark Hicken
Thursday, 03 December 2009 00:51
Effective Dec 2, 2009, licensee retail store (LRS) licenses (the newer private retail store licenses) have been uncoupled from the liquor-primary (LP) licenses with which they were formerly required to be associated. See this story on WineLaw.ca for details. This change will allow greater freedom for LRS operators to move their operations and/or transfer them to other parties. We may see an increase in the transfer of LRS licenses ... perhaps even to a supermarket operator?