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Wednesday, November 01, 2006 - Wassailling at the Supermarket
 Well, unless you have no television, no radio, don't read the paper, and have lost all sensational function besides, maybe, smell, you know that next Tuesday is election day. Hopefully, you also know that not only is the governor's seat up for grabs (or shall we say, the graceful enaction of our benevolent democracy?), but that a number of propositions will appear on the ballot, as well. Included in this glorious list of democractic fodder, is Proposition 1, or "Initiative Petition A," which states: This proposed law would allow local licensing authorities to issue licenses for food stores to sell wine. The proposed law defines a “food store” as a retail vendor, such as a grocery store, supermarket, shop, club, outlet, or warehouse-type seller, that sells food to consumers to be eaten elsewhere (which must include meat, poultry, dairy products, eggs, fresh fruit and produce, and other specified items), and that may sell other items usually found in grocery stores. Holders of licenses to sell wine at food stores could sell wine either on its own or together with any other items they sell. It seems that a lot of the advertising devoted to this proposition tries to define the issue as either "consumer choice" (good for capitalism), or "irresponsible sales practices" (good for teens). Although watching small mom&pop liquor stores suffer is bad enough, especially in this lovely enclave of locally-supported business and agriculture, sometimes it's nice to be able to pick up a bottle of red when the only store open is Big Y. It might be the only reason some would shop at the Big Y... Photo taken from redirete's photostream on Flickr.
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