What has been your experience so far with the state’s new privatized liquor sales?
What has been your experience so far with the state’s new privatized liquor sales?
Let us know what you have seen in terms of selections available, convenience or how the new vendors compare with previous state liquor stores. Your responses may be a part of future coverage.
Send replies to john.gillie@thenewstribune.com with LIQUOR SALES in the subject line of email.
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In Sunday’s News Tribune
More small stores in Washington would be allowed to sell liquor under a proposal Wednesday from the state Liquor Control Board.
A group representing the owners of Washington’s former state liquor stores says unfair competition is smothering their business and they want the Legislature and the Washington State Liquor Control Board to enact new rules to put them on an equal stance with larger competitors.
State Liquor Control Board officials said Friday that 10 businesses in Kennewick, Pasco, West Richland and Benton City were cited for selling alcohol to minors after they failed compliance checks.
Board spokesman Mikhail Carpenter told the Herald the checks were performed on 19 businesses Feb. 14.
The board's compliance checks involve sending a person between the ages of 18 and 20 into places that sell alcohol -- using their own valid driver's licenses or identification cards -- and having them attempt to buy alcohol.
Early this year when the state put its network of liquor stores on the auction block, many small-business people saw it as their path to prosperity. Now, six months after liquor sales were privatized, many of those once-eager bidders, who collectively paid the state more than $31 million for the rights to the state’s former stores, have discovered their adventures in retailing are a road to ruination.
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