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Article: Group agitating for end to Internet beer sales. (cyberspace liquor merchants)
- Article from:
- Modern Brewery Age
- Article date:
- January 5, 1998
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Associated Press - Internet booze merchants are selling directly to children and delivering to their homes, a private group asserted last week. "First it was cyperporn ... now it's cyberbooze," says Americans for Responsible Alcohol Access. However, the small but growing number of companies that offer direct-to-home delivery of the wines and beers they advertise on the Internet, say the group's criticism is just an attempt by liquor wholesalers to put them out of business.
The newly formed group presented a "dramatic 'sting' video" produced by New York Attorney General Dennis Vacco at a news conference. The group's organizers acknowledge their effort is funded ...