The day before the strike LCBO’s were busy as bar owners and other stock piled purchases just in case there was a strike. The LCBO report over 60 million dollars in credit card / debit card sales on this date. A record sales day better than any day just before Christmas.

I did visit a local LCBO on the eve of the strike date, I wanted to pick up a bottle of wine that will be July’s Wine of the Month at Essex Wine Review. I could have picked it up at the winery but seeing all of the action at the LCBO was worth it. It was busy at the Round House LCBO in Windsor when I dropped in around 4PM but lines at the cash register were only 2 to 3 customers deep. Not too bad. Many of the bar owners must have been in and out much earlier in the day.

While at the LCBO, I also picked up a bottle of Dan Aykroyd’s Chardonnay (Discovey Wine Series). It’s a VQA wine for just under $15. I plan on opening this wine on the weekend and will post a review here.

Gary