05th Dec 2002
Booze on Sundays and Wine in Supermarkets
One thing we’ve had trouble getting used to in NY after four years in San Francisco is the so-called blue laws by which you can’t buy liquor in NY on Sundays and you can only buy beer in supermarkets, not wine. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and the state is now considering ending those restrictions to raise taxes.
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I feel that wine in supermarkets will hurt the small business man. Don’t the supermarket owners make enought money? Where does the greed end. How many of us could ever open a supermarket when looking into a business? Most of us just do not have that kind of money to lay out. However many of us could open a wine and liquor store. Haven’t we put enough small businesses out of business. Save some for the regular guy. People who have opened wine and liquor stores opened them knowing the strict rules and thus felt they could make a go of it, they have spent years giving it all they have to try to build a business and now stand to loose it because of the greed of already very wealthy people, the owners of these chains of liquor stores. As the law is now each wine and liquor store is owned by an independent owner. By law no one may own more than one wine and liquor store. Sounds fair to me, gives so many people the opertunity in the line of business. Put wine in supermakets and kill the American dream for most of these people. If you put wine in supermarkets you will fatten the wallet of very wealthy people and make poor the small business man. Don’t do it!!