Making customers go to extra lengths to buy alcohol would remove the temptation to include booze on their weekly shopping lists,
People who pop into the supermarket with a budget are attracted to cheap food offers and therefore spend more on alcohol.
“Massachusetts currently allows corporations and individuals to hold up to 9 liquor licenses. The concern is that supermarkets and their allies have introduced H414, H319 and H318 to create unlimited licenses for food stores to sell alcohol beverages. England, having learned the hard way, offers great insights into the outcome from unlimited licenses as they seek to repeal alcohol sales at food stores. 9 licenses are enough. if anything, Massachusetts should revert back to 7 licenses to prevent marketplace control of alcohol retail within the state.”
