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LCBO Data Scraping

One SKU in Ontario now has more than one price surface, and they answer different questions.

The LCBO is Ontario's Crown retailer, with a province-wide retail price and per-store inventory. From 1 April 2026 it became the exclusive wholesaler of beverage alcohol in Ontario under a cost-plus model built from landed cost, wholesale mark-up, applicable charges, container deposit and tax. Retail and wholesale are separate surfaces, and the deposit is its own line rather than part of the price. Jurisdiction, channel and the price surface sit on every record, the SKU key carries vintage or age statement, format and ABV, and no age gate is passed by misrepresenting who is asking.

A shelf price, a price plus deposit and a wholesale price are three numbers. Confusing them is the usual error.

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lcbo_sample.jsonl LIVE FEED

{"price_surface":"retail","price":44.95,"deposit":0.20,"currency":"CAD"} {"price_surface":"wholesale","price":"as published"} {"store_id":"as published","in_stock":12,"policy_event":"exclusive wholesaler","event_date":"2026-04-01"}

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LCBO at a glance

How we handle LCBO specifically

Platform-specific handling, not a generic retail template pointed at a different domain.

Retailer: Ontario Crown corporation
Retail price: Province-wide
1 Apr 2026: Exclusive wholesaler for Ontario
Wholesale: Cost-plus structure
Deposit: Its own line, not the price
Stock: Per store
Convenience and grocery: Separate retail channel since 2024
Refresh: Daily on stock, on change for price

Platform specifics

Retail, wholesale and deposit

These are the reasons a LCBO dataset needs its own handling rather than a shared retail schema.

Price surfaces

Ontario expanded alcohol sales beyond the board's own stores, so a complete provincial view now needs more than one retailer even though wholesale runs through one.

price_surface — retail, wholesale.
deposit as its own field, never folded in.
store_id and in_stock for inventory.
policy_event with dates for structural changes.

Channel expansion, and what we do not do

Channel expansion

Convenience and grocery listings are a different retail channel and are collected separately where they are in scope. See our SAQ page.

Price surfaces

Per-litre normalisation is carried beside the observed price rather than replacing it, and the jurisdiction that produced the price stays on the record, as the wine, spirits and liquor hub describes.

What we do not do

Fold deposits into price, present a wholesale figure as a shelf price, use a trade login, or collect licensee or customer information.

Scope

What we collect on LCBO, and what we do not

The right column matters more than the left. Anyone can list fields; the limits are what tell you whether the dataset will hold up.

✅ What we collect

Price surface on every record
Deposit as its own field
Province-wide retail price
Store inventory separate
Structural changes dated
Other channels collected separately
Per-litre beside observed price
Public pages only
Daily stock refresh

❌ What we do not, and why

Deposits folded into price
Wholesale shown as retail
Trade logins
Licensee or customer data
Channels merged

Core LCBO fields

The full dictionary is agreed during scoping. These are the fields specific to this platform.

Field	What it is on this platform
sku_key	Brand, expression, vintage, format, ABV
price_surface	retail, wholesale
price / price_per_litre	Observed and normalised
deposit	Separate line
store_id / in_stock	Inventory
category / subcategory	As published
abv_pct / volume_ml	As labelled
origin_country	As published
policy_event / event_date	Sourced
listed / delisted_at	Presence
source / captured_at	Per record

Use cases

What teams do with LCBO data

Provincial pricing

One SKU across surfaces.

Inventory mapping

Stock across stores.

Policy tracking

Structural changes with dates.

Channel comparison

Board stores against other retail.

The 24-hour sample — run on your sources, not ours

Send us a LCBO item or category list. We run real collection against it and return the output within 24 hours, with the platform-specific fields populated so you can check them yourself rather than take our word for it.

Real extraction from your actual sources
Returned within 24 hours
Coverage and QA note included
You keep the data either way
No card, no trial clock
Named engineer on the call

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How we engage

Three ways to engage us

Same collection pipeline and QA underneath. The difference is who holds the schedule and how the data reaches you.

Managed service (most common)

We own the collection, the QA and the delivery. You receive clean data on a schedule and never touch a scraper.

Dedicated engineer assigned to your account
Site changes fixed by us, not reported to you
Scheduled delivery to your warehouse or S3
Named contact on Slack or email

Best fit: Teams who need the data, not the infrastructure.

API access

The same collection pipeline exposed as an authenticated REST endpoint your systems query directly.

On-demand and scheduled endpoints
Rate limits agreed to your load profile
Sandbox keys for integration testing
Versioned schema with deprecation notice

Best fit: Product and engineering teams building on live data.

One-time or project extraction

A defined pull for a specific question — market sizing, diligence, a pitch, a one-off audit.

Fixed scope agreed in writing upfront
Single delivery with full QA report
Methodology documented for your records
Converts to managed if you want continuity

Best fit: Research, strategy and diligence work with a deadline.

Pricing

Every engagement is quoted individually, because the honest answer depends on your scope: how many sources, how many records, how often, and how the data reaches you. We scope it with you, run a free pilot on your own sources, and then quote a fixed monthly figure — no per-request metering and no overage billing when volumes move. Request a quote and you will have a number after one call.

LCBO is usually collected alongside its competitors

Almost nobody buys a single platform in isolation. LCBO data becomes useful when it sits next to the competitor set on one schema, refreshed on one schedule, so a price index or availability comparison is genuinely like-for-like.

That is what wine, spirits & liquor data covers, and a LCBO-only engagement can be expanded into it without rebuilding. If you already know you need several platforms, start there instead — it is the same pipeline and usually the better scoping conversation.

FAQ

LCBO data scraping: frequently asked questions

Platform-specific questions, including what cannot be collected here.

One province-wide retail price, with a separate wholesale surface.

No. It is a separate field.

The board became the exclusive wholesaler under a cost-plus structure.

No. Public pages only.

Where they are in scope, as a separate channel.

It depends on surfaces and store coverage.

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