Dragonlady
Designing Woman
- Dec 1, 2012
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There’s always someone in every organization ( right down to bowling leagues) bitching about how money is spent
In Ontario, the liquor stores are government owned. When I was a teenager, you went in, filled out a slip with your order on it and handed it to a clerk at the counter who went into a back room and came back with your purchase. There were no bottles on shelves to look at, and you "browsed" a list of products available.
By my 30's there were bottles on shelves but the stores were very basic. About 20 years ago, the LCBO (Liquor Control Board of Ontario), started redesigned all of their stores to make them more nicer and taxpayers went batshit over the expense of upgrading the liquor stores. What a waste of money! Except that the newer, prettier stores, made more money. People liked going to them. So the redesigns continued.
An American friend complained that the City of Philadelphia made the new library too nice. What a waste of money! He was all for a new library until he saw how fancy it was. There's one in every crowd.