Port Angeles Liquor Store Moving; Other Area Stores Closing
The liquor store in Port Angeles will be moving in mid-November to 116 Race Street. Two liquor stores in Sequim and Port Townsend, both owned by the same person, will be closing.
Competition from supermarkets and other chain stores, plus the new 17% tax on all liquor, has made owning a liquor store much less lucrative, and with a lot more risks.
Well, I guess this is an improvement over the old state-run liquor stores. "We" voted for the Costco Initiative last year; we must have known what we were doing.
Competition from supermarkets and other chain stores, plus the new 17% tax on all liquor, has made owning a liquor store much less lucrative, and with a lot more risks.
Well, I guess this is an improvement over the old state-run liquor stores. "We" voted for the Costco Initiative last year; we must have known what we were doing.
posted by Tom Harper at 12:33 PM
17 Comments:
I still shop at the private store even if it means paying a little more. They have a much better selection and they post the register price instead of the deceptive pre-tax price that the grocery stores use.
I thought they would make money, no matter what. People LIKE to drink!
I only went in there once after a bunch of idiots forced the state out of the liquor sales. Too expensive in there, was more no matter how the prices was posted.
But I've pretty much stopped buying hard liquor after a bunch of fucking idiots voted to get the state out of liquor sales, it was one thing a fucking government was doing right, to a point.
Booze is cheaper in other states but here the liberals need money to pay for programs and booze is how they got some of that money.
And they put a loophole in it all so they're still raking in the money.
Anyway, I think the new location will close within a year.
I still shop at the private store even if it means paying a little more.
Well, you may be a liberal, but I'm a fucking bum. I've noticed that liberals also shop at Walfart, I notice their bumper stickers when I'm there.
My God, what a shocker!
I mean, come on people, the initiative was spelled out and people whining about the rules probably voted them into law. Didn't they think about the consequences? DIdn't they do due diligence to see what they were getting into?
I suppose these idiots are going to want a bailout now. Since the gubmint "deceived" them and all.
Nice try tea party asshole/liar. No mention of deception nor government bailouts in the article.
8 months sober. Booze almost killed me. Today I have recovered my life back and my family has there husband and father back. If you are a normal drinker then the high cost won't hurt you. If you are a heavy drinker and need it to live life and make life work for you, go seek help. Not only will you get your life back you will say a lot of money. Praise God.
Corporate consolidation of power and money, right here in Port Angeles.
The little independents are driven out of business by the big box corporate types. As if any small business owner can buy the TV ad time to convince voters to do what they want!
Just more of the same.
Not a liberal and I don't shop at Walmart. Swain's is my preferred retail store.
Albertsons, Safeway and Costco are never going to miss the money from spirits sales if you go to the private store. But the private store is definitely going to shutdown if no one shops there. It's worth supporting it as a local business and the only place to get a better selection of spirits.
I make plenty of my own booze at home too and give most of it away to anyone that is interested. That includes you Billy!
Please… This was Initiative was designed and marketed to WA by a Giant retail distributor. It was presented as a way to “stick it to the man” and “Get the state out of the Liquor Business“. ..As if. -The whole transparent scam was spoon-fed to moron tea bag types, who, on cue, swallowed it hook line and sinker, and voted yes to a good deep screwing.
I’m sure the State was happy to dump as much of their holdings as they could before people realized the old liquor stores couldn’t compete with COSTCO, Safeway, etc.
It’s a win-win. The Corporations make money and squash competition, the Politicos get taxes and contributions, and the only people getting screwed are too stupid to know they’re being screwed.
Yep! The two parties spent $6 billion to get your vote.
I can see that. That is how democracy works. Fair and square.
Right.
Hope we don't get any rain soon, because I think we are in for a LANDSLIDE!!!!
WHOOO HOOOOO!
Gay marriage! Legal pot! And no need to learn to choke out the phrase "President Romney." Not a perfect night or election, but I'm happy happy happy with what we did get - and didn't.
Skeletor speaks:
McKenna, seeking to become the first Republican to win the seat in more than three decades, asked his supporters to wait a few more days as mail ballots continued to arrive at county offices. (Kitsap Sun 11/07)
Hopefully during these days he can clear out his desk in the AG office. Now we can get to work getting violent and habitual criminals off the street instead of creating photo opportunities that highlight recent flip flops.
So, he tells his supporters to wait a few days. The rest of us?
FOREWARD.....
Obama cares.
The tea party scares.
Watching all the various national news shows this morning, and hearing the pundits all say the Republicans will never win another election, unless they re-brand themselves, and back away from all variations of the messages of hate that make up their rhetoric.
All those years of Fox news twisting reality around to make everything bad Obama's fault seem to have resulted in failure. The majority of America rejects the Republican/Fox spin.
Will they listen?
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