A Visit to a Manitoba Liquor Store

 Actually, I drove the rental to the Manitoba Liquor Control Store near the Brandon Canadian Tire and the Brandon Crmerery.

Manitoba has Liquor Communism whereas Communist China does not. You can buy beer in grocery stores and convenience stores in China; not in Manitoba.

When I said this to some Manitobans, one of them defended the government control of liquor on the grounds that there was riff-raff in Manitoba that would go crazy.  I didn’t see any social problems caused by having liquor more freely available in China, I replied.  I was then told that this was because the government was Communist Dictators.

To enter the MLCC store, I had to show ID to a clerk sitting behind a glass window.  He buzzed me into the store.  He told me that the MLCC had been doing this for two years because of theft problems.  The theft I had been told by others was like that I heard of taking place in California.  With staff not being allowed to confront the thieves, individuals with back packs or gangs were entering the stores and taking as much as they could carry.  Some would scream at them.

The store I went to in Brandon had a good selection, was tidy and had friendly staff.  I was annoyed however that I couldn’t buy a single can of Sleeman’s Honey Lager.

Are Manitobans not civilized enough to not have a MLCC?

Later, I wax at the Brandon Walmart and heard a few people using expletives.