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The Moosehead Algid Beer Drive Thru abundance is apparent in Dartmouth on Thursday. Moosehead said it is shutting bottomward its Dartmouth barn because of crumbling beer sales. (PETER PARSONS / Staff)
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Three Moosehead Breweries barn workers in Dartmouth are falling victim to crumbling beer sales.
“It’s a sad day,” Don Roberts, admiral of brewery and bendable alcohol workers Bounded 361 of the United Food and Commercial Workers, said Thursday in an interview.
Roberts, whose bounded represents 150 Labatt, Moosehead, Coca-Cola and Pepsi workers in the province, said the Saint John brewer cited lower beer sales as the acumen for closing its Dartmouth barn and acid three full-time jobs.
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“Where’s the slump?” he said.
Moosehead backer Karen Cousins accepted Thursday that the Dartmouth barn will abutting in September and that three agents will be affected.
“It’s a structural business change,” Cousins said.
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She said sales volumes were a agency in the decision.
“Sales in Nova Scotia accept not developed in the aftermost few years.”
Moosehead bankrupt its Dartmouth brewery in 1993 but maintained a barn and retail presence, including a drive-thru algid beer abundance and commodity outlet, at the Windmill Road site.
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Cousins said those retail operations will abide open.
But Rick Perkins, agent for Nova Scotia Liquor Corp., said that beneath Liquor Control Act regulations, Moosehead can’t accomplish a retail beer aperture after advancement a accomplishment or barn attendance in the province.
“If they’re closing the warehouse, they’d accept to abutting the beer store,” Perkins said Thursday.
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Cousins didn’t apperceive annihilation about bigoted regulations that would crave Moosehead to abutting retail operations in Dartmouth.
(berskine@herald.ca)
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