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The problem is determining tax status by who sells it, rather than the product itself. Why should a sub sandwich be tax free at Superstore, but taxed at Mom & Pop's corner convenience store? What happens to retailers who provide prepared meals that are meant to be reheated at home? Are they taxed if standalone, but tax free if they relocate inside a Safeway?
It's the wrong question. The question is: "Are there small retailers that won't benefit from this bill?"
Joy's was my primary store for like 6 years. The older Korean couple who own it are lovely people.
God, this tax cut just keeps getting dumber and dumber. I don't know how people who supported high sugar beverage taxes, etc. could possibly justify this other than pandering to the North American anti-tax mentality. The original CBC article's example of a "win" under this tax cut was a man who paid about $6.50 of PST on about $300 of groceries. What a waste of everyone's time and money.
Put the PST back up the 1% the PC cut off and stop begging for federal funds.
Is Joy’s that convenience store on River Ave? There’s also Quick-e Mart down the block, another convenience store which is also probably not going to benefit from this change.
Yep, that's the one.
Damn we have 4 Winnipeggers on various federated apps, that's more than I thought there would be.
Yeah man, there’s at least, like, 6 or 7 of us lol. I’ve been trying to get this and the Manitoba community more active for a bit, but so far Ive had more success on the Manitoba community (see the difference in activity levels between this and this post to see what I mean). I’m happy to go wherever the action is though. I think there might be Rexit soon over the Reddit age verification thing so nows a good time to be tryna grow the communities
I wouldn't complain about more activity. Sadly I'm exclusively a commentor, I essentially never post anything. I'll sub here and I think I'm already subbed to the manitoba one.
Hey no worries. Comments are always welcome!
I'm not sure what you mean by "legitimate," but I'm in a bit of a grocery desert that's only served by the big players. But there are loads of corner stores and convenience stores in the city.