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Garrett Thienes, who is also a town councillor, runs the upscale Harvest Eatery with his wife Kristy in the community of about 1,700.

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thought privatization would be great we going to get a local owner and they going to want to work with the local guys in town. Our success (would be) tied together but that hasn been the case at all, said Thienes.

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have zero liquor (experience), he confirmed.

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If Thienes needs a bottle of a 15 year single malt whiskey for example, he has to order a case.

six bottles at $112 a bottle. I don know a lot of restaurants that go through six bottles of Macallan (scotch whiskey) in a year, even in the city, he said.

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can just bring a couple bottles in. We a little canada goose coats on sale leery of bringing certain things in if they going to be too expensive. If the price is within reason, it not a problem. to SLGA spokesperson David Morris, shipping full cases uk canada goose of product to liquor retailers is a standard practice for consumer goods.

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cheap Canada Goose retailers, including SLGA stores, uk canada goose outlet will sell individual bottles to commercial customers like restaurants. It up to individual retailers to decide. Thienes was able to order a single bottle from the Shaunavon SLGA store. If Canada Goose sale it wasn in stock, SLGA would arrange for a store to store transfer of one bottle. cheap Canada Goose

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He said it a shame that money isn being spent in Shaunavon.

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canada goose deals help us or get out of the way and let us manage ourselves. are 46 new private retailers since the privatization model was rolled out in mid 2016. SLGA also operates 36 retail liquor stores in the province canada goose deals.