1. Why don’t you just continue to open adjacent package stores like is currently being done?
2. How can you claim this will raise an additional $55M in tax revenue over 5 years when the Commonwealth only collected a total of $13M on wine sales in 2007 and Kentucky wines are exempt from wholesale taxes?
3. Do you believe that wine sales will double by allowing you to move your wine inside the store instead of having an adjacent store? Won’t you only be taking the sales away from current package stores?
4. How can you claim that this will not hurt small family owned package stores when you are asking that we change the rules dramatically after 75 years of business and force them to now compete with large grocery corporations? How will this be any different than what happened to the small mom and pop grocery stores that have been put out of business by the mega grocery stores.
5. How can you claim there will be more jobs created because the wine has to be delivered and stocked? Kentucky law requires that the wine is delivered to you by the wholesaler and don’t you already employ people to stock your current shelves?
6. Why should you be allowed to have minors work in your stockroom and aisles stocking your shelves when package stores are not allowed the same opportunity?
7. Isn’t it true that no state has passed this legislation in 23 years and that many of the states that permit this have done so since they established their liquor laws at the end of prohibition?
8. Are you aware that in 19 of those 34 states, the state itself is the wholesaler or package retailer instead of independent businesses that would have to compete with grocers?
9. If this is about helping Kentucky wineries and grape producers, why have grocers carried few or no Kentucky wines in their package stores? Some states that allow wine in grocery stores only allow wines produced in that state to be sold. Would you be in favor of that restriction? If not, would you be in favor of saying that all grocers that get a wine license must carry all Kentucky wines requested by a Kentucky winery? This is what would really help Kentucky wineries and grape producers.
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