I have a good friend that has made millions of dollars owning liquor stores. I use to give him hell for complaining all the time about laws, regulations and rules they place on him, when his family had made a small fortune on it.....I figured it was the cost of doing business. Then I seen them start allowing every little shop to sell beer...then it was liquor, then it was it could be sold on the floor with no special precaution to prevent kids from stealing it, then cashiers could be 19 and unlicensed to sell, etc.
In other words, the retailers brought this on themselves. They are just like the nasty liberal gun grabbers. Give them a foot and they will ask for a leg, give them that leg and they will want both legs....you get the point. You have liquor stores that paid $500,000 for a liquor store permit to protect their "territory" from competition so they could recoup costs spent on permits and building stores. Keep in mind you can't just buy the permit and keep others from having it, you must open a new store within 5 years! That's another $500,000...so now you have $1,000,000 invested to just protect your livelihood. Then "your" store is for only those 21 and above, your clerks have to be licensed, the state controls what else you can sell in "your" store.
Grocery stores already have an unfair advantage that shouldn't exist. They should be required, at a minimum, to follow the same rules as a liquor store, which existed long before the grocery retailers were allowed to sell booze on an open floor by unlicensed cashiers. If a Kroger's cashier gets 3 DWI's, Krogers can still sell...if the liquor store owner gets 3 DWI's...he loses his permit that he invested $1M in. Grocery retailers can sell beer at a loss...a liquor store has a mandated minimum price they have to sell at....kind of like the cigarette minimum price.
Grocery stores could have eliminated this had they agreed to play by the rules....but they don't want to play by the rules. They want to have their cake and eat it too.
Right now there is only 2 things that keep liquor stores in business....cold beer and loyalty. I don't personally drink myself and could care less what happens with this either way. But just looking at it from a common sense, un-biased view.....I can see why the liquor stores fight this stuff like they do.
Imagine a FFL costing you $100,000 to sell guns, then a few years later them allowing every little shop to sell them with a $100 permit and no background check....that's probably how these businessmen feel. Just my 2 cents....and it aint worth that.
http://www.ibj.com/articles/30888-hendricks-county-hotspot-for-package-liquor-permits
In other words, the retailers brought this on themselves. They are just like the nasty liberal gun grabbers. Give them a foot and they will ask for a leg, give them that leg and they will want both legs....you get the point. You have liquor stores that paid $500,000 for a liquor store permit to protect their "territory" from competition so they could recoup costs spent on permits and building stores. Keep in mind you can't just buy the permit and keep others from having it, you must open a new store within 5 years! That's another $500,000...so now you have $1,000,000 invested to just protect your livelihood. Then "your" store is for only those 21 and above, your clerks have to be licensed, the state controls what else you can sell in "your" store.
Grocery stores already have an unfair advantage that shouldn't exist. They should be required, at a minimum, to follow the same rules as a liquor store, which existed long before the grocery retailers were allowed to sell booze on an open floor by unlicensed cashiers. If a Kroger's cashier gets 3 DWI's, Krogers can still sell...if the liquor store owner gets 3 DWI's...he loses his permit that he invested $1M in. Grocery retailers can sell beer at a loss...a liquor store has a mandated minimum price they have to sell at....kind of like the cigarette minimum price.
Grocery stores could have eliminated this had they agreed to play by the rules....but they don't want to play by the rules. They want to have their cake and eat it too.
Right now there is only 2 things that keep liquor stores in business....cold beer and loyalty. I don't personally drink myself and could care less what happens with this either way. But just looking at it from a common sense, un-biased view.....I can see why the liquor stores fight this stuff like they do.
Imagine a FFL costing you $100,000 to sell guns, then a few years later them allowing every little shop to sell them with a $100 permit and no background check....that's probably how these businessmen feel. Just my 2 cents....and it aint worth that.
http://www.ibj.com/articles/30888-hendricks-county-hotspot-for-package-liquor-permits
