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Posted Jan 07, 2010 @ 10:30 AM
A proposal to allow the sale of wine in grocery stores and other retail outlets is attractive at first blush. An extra revenue stream for supermarkets, extra convenience for shoppers and extra money for the state, as businesses would have to pay an additional fee to stock wines. And the wine industry — including vintners just south of Monroe County in the Finger Lakes — would benefit from the added availability of its products.
Everybody benefits, right? Well, not exactly.
Left out in the cold would be the primary folks who now sell wine in New York: liquor store operators.
Numbers don’t lie. There are about 2,400 liquor stores in New York. Their owners estimate wine sales make up between 60 and 75 percent of their profits. They would have trouble competing with the broadened availability of their signature product among an estimated 19,000 retailers in the state — the number that would be eligible to sell wine under the proposal.
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