Ontario grocery stores stumble over empty booze return crisis
Friday, May 30, 2025, 8:21 am
Ontario grocery outlets are facing scrutiny for largely ignoring their duty to accept empty alcohol containers, leaving the future of the deposit return program hanging in balance. Critics question enforcement and program sustainability as stores seem too busy to play their part.
Very few Ontario grocery stores accepting empty alcohol containers are doing so, leaving the future of the deposit return program in question as The Beer Store closes locations.
TORONTO — Very few Ontario grocery stores that are required to accept empty alcohol containers are doing so, leaving the future of the deposit return program in question as The Beer Store closes locations across the province. Only about 70 grocery stores — ones that are more than five kilometres…
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