A new wine bar opened on Main Street in Flemington earlier this month bringing together two local businesses in a collaboration designed to draw visitors downtown ....
AntonioHayes, who sponsored bills to allow beer and wine sales in groceries and other stores ...Pamela Beidle (D-Anne Arundel) worries that expanding beer and wine sales will hurt small-business owners.
Specifically, 65% of the stores’ sales would have to come from food-related products ... Previous attempts to allow the sale of wine in grocery stores were made in 2008-2009 under then-Governor David Paterson ... Wine is 'not just another grocery item'.
If New York lawmakers decide to allow wine sales in grocery stores, they could be uncorking an array of unintended consequences ... able to handle the hit from another 20% or 30% decrease in wine sales.”.