KEPPELER: In (New York) vino, veritas?

It's always nice to see a civilian (non-grocery or liquor store oriented writer)  that has looked at all the facts and arrived at the conclusion that wine in grocery stores is a bad idea, even if it means less convenience than what could be had if it were so.  Here is  such a gem:

"Sure, you’ve got your one-time influx of license fees, but we all know how quickly those would simply be subsumed by the black hole that is state government. Do you really think it will show up in any way that matters? I don’t.

It’s not going to hurt the behemoths all that much if they don’t get wine sales. And it’s not going to help the real people working at them very much if they do.

I rather doubt it would ever translate into raises for the rank-and-file workers and managers that need them. It’s going to translate strictly into greater corporate profits. And I think that most of us know that, what corporate gets, it doesn’t give back.

And I can’t see it translating into more jobs. The big chains might hire a wine expert or two, chainwide. Maybe add an employee or so at the bigger stores — but mostly, I’d guess, the work is going to fall right onto the mostly overworked-and-underpaid employees who are there already."

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