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| Written by Editorial Board | |||
| Friday, 05 March 2010 09:00 | |||
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A bill has been introduced in the Kansas Senate to allow liquor sales in grocery stores. This is a complex issue that, as state Sen. Pat Apple said, which will require long looks at both sides before a decision can be made. The addition of liquor sales in grocery stores would devastate liquor stores. Even with the additions to the bill that would allow liquor stores to sell other goods, such as tobacco and snack food, liquor stores would have a hard time competing with grocery stores. On one hand, liquor should have been allowed in grocery stores already. Outdated laws from the Prohibition era prevented that and led to the development of countless small-business liquor stores dotting the state. At this point, grocery stores would not have enough to gain from the change in regulations to justify the damage that would be done to the livelihoods of hundreds of liquor-store owners who have come to rely on the revenue from their small shops. It’s unfortunate that it’s come to this and that the restrictive law was ever maintained. We simply face a situation that is now better left untouched. Perhaps a compromise will be reached in the future, but hurting small businesses now, in a down economy, is irresponsible.
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