Busier stores, but lost LCBO sales: Local distillers and brewers brace for impact of strike

Distilleries can only sell hard alcoholic drinks like vodka, gin and whiskey attheir retail stores, in bulk to a local restaurantor through the LCBO. Butbreweries or wineries sellingcider, wine and beer have theflexibility to also sell their productsat eligible grocery and big-box stores.