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Article: Grocery stores will have monopoly on liquor sales

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The Patriot Ledger  Quincy, MA
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September 27, 2006
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I would like to respond to Kim Hinden's letter in the Sept. 21 edition of The Patriot Ledger regarding wine sales in grocery stores.

Her reference to "liquor stores mounting an absurd scare campaign against Question One to try to protect their virtual monopoly on wine sales, which they've enjoyed for 72 years" is itself absurd.

The current law regarding liquor store licenses specifically prevents monopolies. Allowing grocery stores to sell wine is the first step toward allowing unlimited licenses to, as she states, "only grocery stores."

Talk about a monopoly. Currently, any corporation in Massachusetts is not permitted to possess more than three liquor licenses in the state in order to ...

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