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Talk of selling wine in grocery stores has been going on for a while, with Governor Paterson supporting the move as a means to raise revenue for our depleted deficit. Liquor stores may not be behind his bill, but who else amongst us doesn't want the convenience of stocking up on Franzia when loading up the shopping cart? Besides, Fresh Direct and 35 other states are happy to serve up wine with your groceries. Well, according to the Daily Politics, advocates for the sale of wine in grocery stores have taken to the internet with a new ad campaign.
A spokesman for New Yorkers for Economic Growth and Open Markets addressed the revenue-producing proposal, saying the sale of wine in grocery stores is "the answer staring everyone in the face." And as another wise man once declared, "Alcohol: the cause of and solution to all of life's problems."
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legalize Marijuana and tax it. Everyone who wants to smoke it already has no problem buying it on the black market.
Don't they already sell marijuana in grocery stores? I guess it depends on which neighborhood you live in.
I wonder what kind of swill grocery stores will carry - I'm betting I see a lot of labels with kangaroos on them.
I can't wait to go to the supermarket and stock up on beluga caviar and Thunderbird.
Marijuana in grocery stores will go a long way toward eliminating the deficit. Legalize locally grown marijuana and tax it. The federal government has no Constitutional authority to regulate marijuana that is grown and sold in-state.
Uh...why would wine and liquor stores support it? This ad is ridiculous. I don't really have an opinion but why the fuck would they say they support it, it makes no sense.
I have been under the impression that most wine store owners oppose it. The only way they benefit is if other restrictions are lifted such as the rule restricting ownership to a single store. But how many current owners have ambitions to run a chain of stores? And how many stores do we need if the grocery stores are selling wine? Seems like there would be fewer wine stores and with even fewer owners. And how that breaks the "monopoly" of the "wealthy liquor industry" is beyond me. Seems like they would be pushing the same wine on fewer store owners. It seems probable that grocery stores are only going to want recognizable brands so there will be less incentives for distributors to work with smaller vineyards (the reason environmentalists are said to be behind the bill) The only way I see the liquor industry hurting is if more sales go to cheaper brands (Two Buck Chuck?) which is what I assume grocery stores will be inclined to stock.
This is a terrible idea. I can't even begin to imagine how many small business owners this would put out of business. And then to boot, it would increase the profits of big chain grocery stores.
Do you hate small businesses? Do you hate diversity of selection? Do you hate your neighborhood? Then this might be the thing for you, while you wait for them to knock over the historical architecture & build a sea of Wal-Marts.
Selling wine in grocery stores is going to lead to "a sea of Wal-Marts"? Maybe we should go in the opposite direction and prohibit grocery stores from selling meat and cakes so a sea of butcher shops and bakeries open up.
Wow, you're not engaging in hysterical exaggeration at all, are you?
Uh, actually, per Dr. Zippy's joke...well, no, I don't think I am exaggerating. I would say to yes, see how the deli counter at the grocery store knocked butchers into obscurity, giving use mass produced cold cuts instead of actual...well, cuts. That might be a little esoteric though, so I suggest you go hit up some wine shops in Pennsylvania. See, there aren't that many. So.
i am an unrepentant beer snob, so i am indifferent to this proposal. talk amongst yourselves.
sorry but idgaf about small businesses. it is annoying as hell to track down a wine store (which often have annoying/weird hours) when i just want a simple cheap bottle of wine to cook with.
I can't imagine where you live and/or work in this city that you don't have a wine store that is convenient to you. And more importantly, cheap cooking wine is already sold in grocery stores here.
Just so you know, "cooking wine" and "wine to cook with" are two very different things.
Cooking wine typically has high levels of salt as a preservative and to render it undrinkable. This also makes it useless for cooking.
"To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems."
I was in a supermarket last weekend in Mass, last weekend, where some are now allowed to sell wine -- it was terribly organized and too brightly lit. I've had similar mediocre experience in California. I'd rather stick to liquor stores.
How does this benefit the state? I'm not going to buy anymore wine than I do now -- will anyone else?
-- oh, did I mention I was in Mass. "last weekend"?
A sure sign I'm ready for this weekend! LOL
Grapes are good for the health. Enjoy life and stay healthy.
The more you eat the more you fart.
Having been born and raised in CA, I don't see how or why East Coast and southern people put up with these archaic liquor laws. Only being able to buy liquor in liquor stores (and the even more egregious restriction on sunday sales!!) It's downright un-american.
I'm used to wine being sold in supermarkets in addition to a few liquor stores.... (Europe)
I think Supermarkets should have the right to sell wine, but yes, it will kill most liquor stores, and therefore kill variety, because a supermarket will not stock 50 versions of red wine.
I'm all for small shops that sell one thing (bread, cheese, meat), but supermarkets WILL sell wine.
Liquor stores will have to brand their inventory as something more special then....
The selection in grocery stores will be crappy, and only yokels who who nothing about wine will buy there. Everyone with taste will still go to specialty shops. Just because they sell cheese at the supermarket doesn't put cheese shops out of business, right? Or bakeries?