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I don't drink Bud and I don't go to convenience stores so I could care less either way.
Whole Foods has some petition to allow them to sell liquor. I couldn't understand the petition. Something about 3 licenses. What licenses? A&P sells food and liquor and pharmaceuticals and flowers. Why can they do it but not Whole Foods? Could it have been a local/town thing?
Legend has it that the reason NJ has these laws is because of the mafia. The laws prevent chain stores from selling booze, otherwise, the mafia would take over the entire racket in the state.
The Shop Rite I go to sells beer. The Whole Foods in Montclair used to sell beer and wine. When they stopped and I asked why, an employee told me they were only able to sell it at certain stores, and Montclair was no longer one of them. I'm not sure what the story is with their petition. King's in West Caldwell also sells beer and wine.
NJ requires a liqour license to sell any type of alcohol. Other states only require the license to sell hard liqour (Rum, Vodka, etc). Liqour licenses are very expensive and very hard to come by. Some towns have a limit on the number they will give out at any one time. So if you want to open a liqour store or bar in a town that has its max number already you either have to buy it from someone else or you are SOL.
Also, some towns put ofence marks against a license based on how may times you have gotten in trouble. If you buy a license from someone else you also inherit their offences. After a certain number a town can revoke your license or your business/property ins will skyrocket.
As a source of income, wouldn't it be beneficial to separate into two licenses, one for beer/wine, one for hard liquor, allow beer/wine to be unlimited, liquor to be limited, to allow for packaged good sales at miscellaneous stores?
Would likely offset some of our muni taxes. I'm ok with it. I have no problem with hard liquor either, but then again I blame people, not products, for stupidity.
Yes! Having grown up in a state where you can drive through a barn to buy beer and wine, I think NJ has it all wrong. I used to feel like such a lush whenever going into a liquor store to buy wine. I've gotten over it, but it is a pain not to be able to pick up beer and wine in the grocery store, at the very least.
I've only been to one Whole Foods that didn't sell liquor in this state.. it was in Bergen County. Just figured it was just a weird Bergen thing, like their blue laws...
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