About Us

With nearly a century of commitment to sustainability and thanks to our recycling and collection system, The Beer Store has played a key role in communities across Ontario. In collaboration with brewers, commodity buyers, and Ontarians, we ensure that we take back more containers than we sell by accepting all alcohol containers and packaging across the province through both our Empty Return Program and the Ontario Deposit Return Program, established by the province of Ontario and facilitated through our business.

Since its inception, The Beer Store has worked with communities to collect over 170 billion containers from ending up in landfill sites. More impressively, we reuse and recycle approximately 1.6 billion containers every year.

We take corporate social responsibility seriously, and make sure that every beer we sell is a responsible sale. A key component of Responsible Sales is the identification checks we conduct through our 'WE ID' program, where staff requests identification from customers who appear to be 30 years of age and younger, as well as the refusal of service to individuals with any signs of potential intoxication. Upon hiring, all Beer Store employees undergo comprehensive training and retraining on Responsible Sales practices, emphasizing the importance of refusing service to underage Ontarian individuals to ensure the safety of our communities and staff.