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Even with State run liquor stores, people would buy their food with the State Debit Card and then run by the liquor store for their booze. Now they can one stop shop and save some gas!! It is ecologically sound!!
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Guns get attacked all the time what about all the people alcohol kills?
Alcohol is a drug in my book and i liked it better when the drugs were sold out of a drug house. Now while at safeway i can watch all the people who turn to alcohol to comfort them buy whatever it is they need to get through life. Cool we can see who pays for there food with food stamps and then pays cash for booze . Im glad for the tax and hope it goes up. Guns get attacked all the time what about all the people alcohol kills . way to go washington . sorry i had to rant
Someone mentioned more employees in the store to cover liquor sales? Yeah right,
The albertsons by me had very limited selection, not sure if/how these big box stores will be carrying the smaller, less known brands. If they cannot move it by the case per day, they are not gonna carry it.
They won't and they shouldn't. Just like you go don't go to a department store for specialty guns, you don't go to a supermarket for specialty liquor. The supermarkets will offer day to day convenience on the popular brands while specialty shops like BevMo that stock more sizes and more boutique brands will be coming very soon. Each retailer is going to offer something different to satisfy different customers. That's free enterprise.
But bullets taste horrible and the buzz is painful.I'm glad you asked. Alcohol has always been a good way for governments to pacify the unwashed masses. Sure, some people will die due to its use, but not enough to warrant prohibition and lose its revenue and appeasing effect on the populace. As long as we have our Big Macs, Starbucks, and booze, we will keep plodding along like the servile and productive peasants our overlords desire. We have already had prohibition in this nation and it did not work. I don't want to imagine how much worse it would be if it were to happen again. Violence is already on the rise as people become more desperate in these economic times. Were there to be no alcohol, rioting would surely ensue.
Firearms, however, are demonized as dangerous, and dangerous they are. But the danger here is not to the individual; rather the corrupt government who would seek to prevent personal ownership. As has been said before, armed people are citizens, while the unarmed become subjects.
Though I see your point, there really is no direct comparison between the two and their usefulness to our government. Perhaps if firearms were more of a significant source of revenue to the government, we wouldn't worry about having to defend our RIGHT to have them. Then again, I wouldn't want to give them any ideas.
See, you're not the only one who can rant.......
OMG... a see a new chain-store coming... LIQUOR WORLD!!! Imagine 30,000+ sq. ft. of liquid fire n' gold!!
They could even offer a room for card games out back... I can see the slogan now, "liquor in the front, and poker in the rear!"
And yet marijuana is still demonized and illegal.
Never heard of BevMo? and I thought this new deal required a store to be over a certain size
bevmo, bens, etc etc. they will come to washington soon. first they have to wait until they can use their distributors who sell to them for much less. second it is the state that is inflating your liquor prices still but after a year that will change. third why is it that if it isn't your cup of tea you don't see it as a personnal right of others. fourth i wonder if i buy liquor at costco i have to pay state sales tax since i live in oregon.
the real drawback and nobody seems aware or maybe washington is different than oregon. since the state liquor stores are priced the same no matter where they are. so if you lived in a small out of the way rural area your liquor price was the same as if you live in the big city. i have to assume that will change.
Congratulations Washington!! I know it is a shorter drive to Wa than Ca, and quite possible I'll have a better selection than here in Or, too!!
Someone explain to me what the State Government is doing running a retail business anyway!