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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 10, 2026
Bolton, Ontario – All Beer Store retail locations will be closed for Family Day, Monday, February 16th, 2026. Stores will reopen with regular hours of operation on Tuesday, February 17th.
“I want to wish customers and our employees all the best for a safe and fun Family Day long weekend,” said Ozzie Ahmed, VP Retail. “We encourage customers to visit one of our locations to shop Ontario’s best selection of ice-cold beer and return empty alcohol containers so you can be long weekend ready.”
The Beer Store Customer Experience Centre is also closed for Family Day, reopening on Tuesday, February 17th.
For more information on store hours, please visit our website at www.thebeerstore.ca.
NEW – Empty Return Locator
The Beer Store launched a new Empty Return Locator to make it easier than ever to find a Beer Store or alternative retailer that is accepting empties.
Consumers can find the locators on the Beer Store’s website. Visit www.thebeerstore.ca/where-to-return-empties. From the homepage of www.thebeerstore.ca, in the navigation bar select ‘Returning Empties’. This menu will drop down, then select ‘where to Return Empties’.
“We want to make empties easy for consumers. We know people want to return their empty alcohol containers for reuse, recycling and to get their deposit money back,” said Ozzie Ahmed, VP Retail TBS. “We’re making it simple and convenient to find Beer Store and other authorized locations.”
Empty Returns
The Beer Store encourages customers to continue returning more than the 1.6 billion alcohol containers we process annually to one of our local TBS locations or an empty return dealer located close by. The following alcohol containers purchased in Ontario can be returned to collect your deposit back: beer, wine and spirits bottles, aluminum cans, plastic bottles, tetra packs and kegs. To help ensure that customers can still purchase beer and return empties, we encourage customers to use one of the following resources:
To find the closest Beer Store location, please visit our website at www.thebeerstore.ca/locations.
To learn more about The Beer Store’s sustainability efforts and why returning empties is beneficial for your community, please see our latest Stewardship Report Delivering Circular Solutions for Ontario. Visit Stewardship Report | The Beer Store.
About The Beer Store
Owned by Ontario-based brewers and named one of Canada’s Greenest Employers 2025, the Beer Store is an integrated business including Ontario’s largest beer retailer, the convenient location for returning empty alcohol containers and leading beverage distributor. The TBS logistics division has 26 points of distribution strategically located across the province to meet the needs of customers.
The Beer Store proudly distributed over 3 million hectoliters of beer to over 13,000 retail and convenience customers in 2024. The Beer Store is deeply committed to responsible sales and not selling to minors or people who are intoxicated. More than 2.1 million customers were challenged in 2024. It is also one of the greenest retailers in the world, annually collecting for reuse and recycling approximately 1.6 billion beverage alcohol containers, including beer, wine and spirits. The Beer Store employs thousands of hard-working Ontarians with well-paying full and parttime jobs.
Media Contact
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