Your handful of friends will be no match to the tsunami of calls the LP's will be getting particularly tweedmainstreet.com from the white collar working class citizens of Canada. Also keep in mind the thousands of shareholders that will be supporting their company. Then seeing the next wave of product lined up on my he shelves of retail stores or distribution centers. It's all fact not even an opinion at this point.
I suppose you would have said in 1933 (end of US prohibition) that drinkers will not buy from big beer and spirit companies but that they would stay with their local moonshiners, stay with the friends and friends of friends ...... but did that happen...? I see some of your friends still surviving, however, the majority of consumers have shown that they prefer to buy from the larger manufacturers producing clean regulated products.
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