Beer at the grocery store
Can anyone tell me again why we can't buy beer in the grocery store or at convenience stores? What is the rationale again? The grocery store is allowed to sell beer, but they aren't allowed to sell beer in the grocery store - they have to put it in another building in the parking lot.
Like that Marda Loop Safeway -- after you buy your groceries from Safeway, you have to walk across the parking lot to buy your beer from Safeway.
Also, I heard some chain (Liquor Barn or Depot I think) is trying to take over a lot of liquor stores in town here and get such a market share that they'll be able to crank their prices up because there won't be anywhere else to go.
Does anyone know anything about this? It doesn't seem very likely because there are so many liquor stores, but I know they bought all them Willow Park Liquor Stores and the prices definitely went up.
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