Everybody's for small business, until something comes along that will save them 5 cents or 2 minutes.

$100,000 for the initial license?

What's that gonna do to the small grocers? And if they don't participate, they lose business to the big chains that can easily afford it. And the mom and pop liquor stores, like Witchy says. Employing 5 to 10 people who need those jobs everywhere across the state.

I understand, in places like VA and NC and SC...where you have to find a state ABC store to get liquor only, that it makes sense to allow grocers to retail beer and wine. That shit's a pain in the ass. They're 10's of miles apart, and hardly ever open...ridiculous.

I don't know how much more convenient it can be than being able to buy all alcoholic beverages at the same place/same time, like we already have.

I'm not gonna lose sleep if this passes, but I think it's bad and unnecessary legislation, and I'd vote against it if it was up to me.

Looking down, I haven't seen this many people actively viewing the same thread for a while. At 10 am.

What a crew.

Looking down, I haven't seen this many people actively viewing the same thread for a while. At 10 am.

What a crew.

I have to go into work for a few hours but after that i am so drinking tonight,anyone anyone??

I sorta like how convenient private liquor stores are in DE. Sure beats the State Stores in PA!

We've moved around quite a bit, and every state has had some peculiar rules regarding alcohol.
Colorado - no liquor sales on Sundays. Grocery stores can sell 3.2 beer.
North Carolina - ABC stores. Unmarked, inconvenient, and limited hours. They sold the hard stuff; you could get the wine and beer at the grocery store. Still quite a few dry counties down there. And there aren't regular bars - there are clubs where you have to buy a membership to drink there. And their drinks are all portioned from those little airplane liquor bottles. REtarded.
Missouri - everything in the liquor store! Beautiful thing.
Maryland - private liquor stores.
Utah - Kegs are illegal.

I love our local liquor store (mad props to Branmar Liquors!!!), so I agree that I wouldn't want to see them lose business.

Raptor shops there too. Maybe we should just have TD meet up there, and skip the middleman.

i work right there and dont think i have ever been in there...lol

most i have went to are mugs on 40, the plce next to the old wawa across from honda east on 40 and the place on moores lane next to citgo...

Chase their prices are great and all the employees are very nice.
And I have so many Chevis Regal glasses and coasters. They are always giving me free bottles of new wine to try. Great people.

I will be there today sometime. running errands (have to get some Bratwurst at Shop Rite on 202) Any suggestions on a great beer to wash it down? I am normally a Michelob Ultra/Coors Light/Blue Moon drinker. But I want to try something else. Sorry for getting off topic for a moment.

If you like Blue Moon, you'll probably like Shiner's Hefeweizen.

Hefeweizen (Hef-ay-vite-zen) recalls the classic beers of Bavaria as a true unfiltered wheat brew. This beer captures old-world Munich Malt, wheat grist used in a scant 1% of all brews worldwide, orange and lemon zest in a frothy classic example of bottle-conditioned beer. Adding clover honey and yeast just before it's bottled touches off a unique, secondary fermentation process inside every keg and bottle before its final release from the brewery.

I will have to try it. Is there only one Hefeweizen or are there multiples? I know I have seen it before, and I have a few friends who drink it.