Yonge and Summerhill, what the heck?!

While their selection of beers is excellent in comparison to most LCBOs, they had one shelf that was right in front of a window, literally. The back of the shelf had something that could block out sunlight, but the window is wider than the shelf, and sunlight very obviously reaches many bottles around the sides and even those in front of the shelf that are in open-sided boxes. Massive skunk risk, and they had to do it with some quality stuff, too.

Panil Barriquée (Italian/Euro version) is one of the high end products they have practically exposed to the sun, and it sells for $14.05. I felt awful when I saw some guy rush in there and grab two of them. I would've said something, but he was wearing headphones and was practically running a marathon within the store.

I find that a lot of employees at the LCBO are quite ignorant of beer and beer preservation. Have you ever heard of someone reserving a bottle for you, yet it was stored sideways and in front of a large window the size of two bedrooms (Kennedy and 401)? Man, the LCBO needs to give out some beer lessons to its employees. How the heck do they pull off stuff like this?!

 

That seems like a very bad justification for the potential spoiling of product. I would piss myself if I got home and found out my vintage/rare/quality beer was skunked due to careless positioning.

At least put some freakin' blinds in front of the window or something. Really, the LCBO shouldn't be THIS incompetent, for goodness' sake.