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Woohoo!! Liquor at Costco!!!
AAAANDDD according to King5, 1183 passed!!!!
Now we can all get our booze with our regular grocery shopping.
Re: Woohoo!! Liquor at Costco!!!
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I was thinking earlier - how convenient...
For the 3 x a year I buy liquor! We are not a big hard alcohol family here.
Woo hoo! I'm really excited for this.
(spoken like a true alcoholic)
hello, i guess i'm in the minority here! i'm anti-1183, and am really disappointed in washington state. was lower prices and convenience really *that* important? now liquor will be seen as a "regular" item you pick up in the grocery store...which i don't think it should be. i think there needs to be stricter regulations and regular cashiers at your local grocery store shouldn't be able to sell it.
but oh well. alcoholics, rejoice!
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The prices aren't that much lower. Last fall's initiative was going to significantly reduce the price of alcohol, but this year it might be 20 cents lower, at most.
The initiative calls for a 17 percent fee from retailers on all liquor sales, as well as other fees from distributors. The fee was developed in response to opponents of the 2010 measure who previously argued that the proposal would have cut millions of dollars from state revenue. In fiscal year 2010, the state of Washington received an estimated $302 million from selling liquor.
http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Washington_Liquor_State_Licensing,_Initiative_1183_%282011%29
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But there are sales on beer and wine now... And liquor stores do discount discontinued liquor. So, as it stands now alcohol gets discounted all of the time.
The price can't get driven down by much more because of the added supplier fees. Last fall's initiative was going to make alcohol cheap (like in Arizona), but this fall the prices will be about the same.
There's some population density algorithm that was made for this. The store has to be a certain square footage per population of the area before they're allowed to sell liquor.
I actually think that it helps against excess consumption, rather than hinders it. When I lived in California, we didn't stock a huge liquor cabinet. If we had a party where we wanted margaritas, etc., we just grabbed some tequilla at the grocery story while we were getting the rest of our party supplies. We didn't have to worry about how much we had on hand, because we could always make a quick run to the store for more.
In Washington, everytime we go to the liquor store, we buy probably 6-7 bottles of liquor (we'll go for tequilla, but because we're there and it's out of the way, we also grab some vodka because we may be low on that, gin, everything else). We end up stocking a lot more on hand, and because we have it in the house, it ends up being consumed a lot faster.
1183 really benefits the occassional alcohol drinker, the one who just wants to grab some gin for a party, etc.
Also, the additional revenue from not funding the liquor stores not only increases money for our state, but also allocates additional money to enforcement, etc.
i do feel bad about this too.
This, especially the bolded part.
I'm glad WA voters have finally voted progressively on the liquor issue.
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A lot of other States sell it in grocery stores and it hasn't led to any drastic increase in alcohol-related incidents. If you really want alcohol, there are a lot of places to get it already, and you can get pretty drunk of beer and wine if you want to. Teenager's already know how to get it. Alcoholics will find a way. I think that 99% of the people that will benefit are regular people like us who need to grab something.
BTW, I live near some Native American stores, where you can get liquor 24-hr a day already. It won't be any different than that, except more locations.
This reminded me of another issue that could be legalized and fix that problem:
Legalize POT! And then tax the crap out of it! And then the old liquor stores could become Marijuana stores.
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THIS!
I'm not pleased it passed. With all the budget shortfalls, losing that extra revenue is really going to hurt. With Costco dumping 22 MILLION DOLLARS behind the initiative, it stands to reason that there's an insane amount of profit they would expect to make in one year alone with it's passing. Plus, I have a good friend who will now be loosing her job with the Liquor control board.
Besides, liquor stores have REALLY lightened up in the past 10 years: longer hours (I think 10pm is reasonable) and open on Sundays. I like going to the liquor store and having it all in one place, comparing brands and pricing, seeing what's new. Feeling safe and secure with a nice chatty police dude there and looking for new baby bottles for my collection. The law requires the stores to be at least 10,000 square feet...and now I think selection and offerings are going to be less with the competing shelf space. We'll also lose the cool functionality of the quick and easy search on the liquor control board's website to find out exactly what locations are carrying a specific bottle.
ETA: Of the 8 liquor stores in Kitsap county only 2 are open on Sundays and the closest one to me is almost 45 minutes away.
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