Tennessee’s Joint Study Committee on Wine in Grocery Stores meets Tuesday afternoon to discuss its main mission, news site tnreport.com reports.
Chaired by bill-supporter state Sen. Bill Ketron (R-Murfreesboro), the committee will hold a public hearing on selling wine next to beer in grocery stores across the state.
Tnreprts.com says:
“For three years now, proponents of bringing Tennessee’s retail wine laws in line with 33 other states have been pushing the issue in the Legislature. For three years they’ve come up empty.
“Largely responsible thus far for vanquishing vino drinkers’ visions of greater choice are the Tennessee Wine and Spirits Retailers Association and the Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of Tennessee, who’ve lobbied heavily against allowing supermarkets to compete in the retail wine market.”
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“One strategy Ketron and his allies are employing to try and cobble together more political support this time around is to invite some of the traditional foes of grocery store wine sales to belly up to the bargaining table.
“Retail liquor store owners tend to labor under some pretty onerous restrictions themselves, said Ketron, so it’s probably time to consider reforming a whole range of the state’s three-quarters-of-a-century-old booze-business laws.”
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