Sunday Liquor Sales!
Posted on April 14, 2008
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One bill down, one to go…(eventually anyway)
The Sunday Sales bill was quick and appeared to pass too easy. I know it has been a long time coming, but today Gov. Bill Ritter finally signed into law a bill that would allow liquor sales on Sundays. Beginning July 1st (or July 6th which is actually Sunday), consumers will be able to go to their local liquor store to purchase their craft beer. That’s one small step for man…
The story is how fast grocery and convenience stores are rallying to be able to sell full-strength beer instead of the 3.2% ABV stuff they’re pushing on people. Thus, the battle continues…
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Having lived here pretty much my whole life, it’s going to be a strange feeling walking into a liquor store on a Sunday. It’s definitely more convenient than planning my drinking earlier in the week.
Cheers!
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Found your site while searching for other Colorado beer blogs. Good to find another Colorado beer enthusiast.
I’m personally excited about Sunday liquor sales. There have been way too many times that I wanted to buy brew on Sundays and found myself without some of my favorite brews (craft beer that is). I simply wouldn’t even consider buying 3.2 beer from a grocery store. I’m hoping that this law will phase out the need for 3.2 beer in this state. I fear that grocery stores and convenience stores will lose out on this new law and will end up losing revenues, however, even if they could stock up on full strength beer, they simply don’t have the shelf space to compete with full service liquor stores. I’m afraid that liquor stores would simply go out of business if they ever had to compete with large chain stores. Imagine if Wal Mart, King Soopers and Safeway all had huge liquor sections. They could buy in bulk and put liquor stores out of business. Liquor store owners are limited to just one license and can’t buy in bulk like big chain stores could. So perhaps its a good thing, otherwise our favorite corner liquor stores and all of their owners would close up.
I’m with you on the 3.2% beer. My wife recently took a tour of the Labatt Brewery in Canada and they showed the group some 3.2% beer and the tour guide couldn’t believe they still have to brew it. She explained some of it was probably slated for Colorado.
As you know, the grocery stores will probably end up just selling the “yellow” stuff anyway and not much local craft beer, so it would give the liquor stores a chance to specialize a bit. It will be interesting to see what comes of it.