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News & ArtsThursday, August 18, 2011
Booze State Liquor Stores to Give Away Up to One Free Shot of Liquor
Posted by Dominic Holden on Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:22 AM
The Washington State Liquor Control Board wants you to know that beginning September 1 they'll toast to a "win for both consumers and producers" by kicking off a one-year pilot project to let you sample hard liquor in stores. Not any liquor, mind you, just the liquor that companies want to promote. And not in every store—just 30 of them, including a few stores in Seattle. You can have a sample no larger than 1/4 of an ounce and no more than four samples.
The liquor board heralds this occasion—smashing the vices that have for too long bound our liquor sales by prohibition-era mores—as a "valuable opportunity to taste spirits in a controlled environment."
A whole ounce of alcohol in a "controlled environment." Hallelujah!
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Today, I am calling on all the citizens of Seattle to insist on a new streetcar line that goes to "a few stores in Seattle", and/or, bar cars on existing lines.
Hear my voice, repeat after me, BAR CAR!
Hear my voice, repeat after me, BAR CAR!
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@3 get one of the local cab or car service companies to do a charter tour kind of thing.
Going to assume that this pilot project will target the stores that do not have a reputation for chronic inebriates loitering outside the door. Or those with low sales of 50ml bottles. Same dif.
Going to assume that this pilot project will target the stores that do not have a reputation for chronic inebriates loitering outside the door. Or those with low sales of 50ml bottles. Same dif.
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They should just use the ACCESS buses and do late night bus service from drinking centers to neighborhoods.
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@4, yes, high class drunks.
@7, that is an idea.
A few decades ago I took amtrac from North Dakota back here and was able to drink while the train passed through Montana.
@7, that is an idea.
A few decades ago I took amtrac from North Dakota back here and was able to drink while the train passed through Montana.
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It's funny that when the WSLCB really sits down and thinks about how they can do their jobs better, the best they can come up with is "let the liquor companies take over". This hearkens back to the bad old days when you had to ask for your liquor from the clerk, with no bottles visible to you besides the ones the liquor companies illegally paid to display on the wall rack behind them.
Here's a tip, WSLCB: SERVE YOUR CUSTOMERS FIRST.
Here's a tip, WSLCB: SERVE YOUR CUSTOMERS FIRST.
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Isn't that one of the arguments against privatization, that it will allow liquor companies to pay for placement in stores? How is this any different?
the ones the liquor companies illegally paid to display on the wall rack behind them.
Isn't that one of the arguments against privatization, that it will allow liquor companies to pay for placement in stores? How is this any different?
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I used to be in favor of privatizing the state liquor monopoly until I realized 2 things:
1. Prices will not drop significantly, for we are all accustomed to the present gouging and the liquor tax itself surely won't be reduced.
2. The newly-privatized profits will go directly and exclusively into the pockets of store owners, not to providing private store employees even the very modest wages and health benefits enjoyed by present WSLCB workers.
Basically, until we smarten up as a country, state, and/or city in terms of income inequality and access to health care, I pretty much have to come down against putting a bunch of people out of living-wage jobs to benefit large retail chains that pay shit and offer unaffordable benefits (if that much.)
1. Prices will not drop significantly, for we are all accustomed to the present gouging and the liquor tax itself surely won't be reduced.
2. The newly-privatized profits will go directly and exclusively into the pockets of store owners, not to providing private store employees even the very modest wages and health benefits enjoyed by present WSLCB workers.
Basically, until we smarten up as a country, state, and/or city in terms of income inequality and access to health care, I pretty much have to come down against putting a bunch of people out of living-wage jobs to benefit large retail chains that pay shit and offer unaffordable benefits (if that much.)
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