Mac’s Commits to Creating New Jobs

Mac’s Convenience Stores would create 1,600 full-time positions if or when the Ontario government allows convenience stores to sell alcohol.

June 27, 2013

TORONTO – Mac’s Convenience Stores announced earlier this week that it would create 1,600 new, full-time jobs if allowed by the Ontario provincial government to sell alcohol at its 547 Ontario stores.

"We want to provide good-paying jobs for hard-working people right across the province," said Tom Moher, vice president of operations for Mac's in Ontario. "And of course, we want to provide our valued customers with a one-stop shopping experience. They're continually telling us that they want to be able to purchase beer, wine and spirits at Mac's."

The announcement comes after the release of an Ontario Convenience Stores Association (OCSA) study that concluded the province would receive increased revenue if alcohol was permitted for sale at convenience stores. A previous survey by the OCSA found that 67% of Ontarians are in favor of being able to buy alcohol at convenience stores.

"The people of Ontario are telling their politicians that it's time to modernize alcohol retailing in this province," Moher said. "Many of our stores are in rural Ontario, which needs jobs. We want to provide them."

Moher said that the private sector can build facilities for the sale of alcohol, saving the government money. He pointed to Mac’s new store in Thamesford, one of the company’s two stores in Ontario that are permitted to sell alcohol, as an example. The store cost $3 million to build. 

"We in the private sector can build facilities for the sale of beer, wine and spirits," said Moher, "versus taxpayer investment in bricks and mortar…We're experienced, responsible retailers of alcohol throughout Canada, the United States and the world.”

The company operates 665 stores in Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador, which can sell beer. It also sells beer at 3,000 stores in the United States and 1,400 in Europe.

 

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