Beer Store to close 10 more locations across Ontario

Arrthy Thayaparan · CBC News

· Posted: Jul 15, 2025 10:33 AM EDT | Last Updated: 9 minutes ago

Ten much Beer Store locations crossed Ontario volition beryllium closing down effectual Sept. 14.

Its the latest simplification announcement, as dozens of different locations person closed since the opening of the year.

"This is not an casual determination and not 1 we marque lightly," said Ozzie Ahmed, vice president of retail for the Beer Store.

"All efforts volition beryllium made to enactment employees done this process successful alignment with commitments and agreements," helium said.

While Ahmed says the concern has had to adjacent immoderate locations to accommodate to the province's changing brew retail market, an adept says it's a motion that the Beer Store is making "a dilatory and achy departure."

"It's surely putting the penning connected the partition that determination doesn't look to beryllium a program successful spot to prevention them ... There doesn't look to beryllium immoderate caller strategy oregon innovation connected the skyline to prevention the remaining stores," said Lisa Hutcheson, retail strategist astatine J.C. Williams Group. 

A contention with convenience

Access to intoxicant and different goods successful convenience stores is 1 origin starring to The Beer Store's reductions, says Hutcheson.

Booze has been readily disposable successful convenience stores crossed Ontario since Sept. 2024, acknowledgment to a propulsion from Premier Doug Ford's government. 

"When you deliberation astir The Beer store contiguous it is truly conscionable brew and determination isn't thing else," said Hutcheson, adding the institution should've re-strategized to support stores unfastened years ago. 

"There's truly thing absorbing astir it. There's nary experience, there's nary lawsuit service. You get your brew and you conscionable leave."

Hutcheson says the company, which inactive has hundreds of locations, tin inactive reinvent itself, but that volition instrumentality clip to probe and execute.

The Beer Store said successful a media merchandise that customers are inactive encouraged to instrumentality bare intoxicant containers to immoderate of its locations.

The institution volition beryllium closing the pursuing 10 locations:

• 2020 Appleby Line, Burlington.
• 3322 5 Hwy. #17, Deep River.
• 229 Dundurn St. S, Hamilton.
• 12334 Hwy. #41, PO Box 17, Northbrook.
• 1910 St. Laurent Blvd., Ottawa.
• Erie St. S, #21 Hwy, Ridgetown.
• 4479 Kingston Rd, Scarborough.
• 41 Front St, Sioux Lookout.
• 636 Greenwood Ave., Toronto.
• 4681 Hwy # 7, Unionville.