You can hammer another nail in the grave of the new, improved, customer-friendly Liquor Control Board.
Remember all the hullaballoo about those kiosks where you can purchase your favorite bottle of wine?
Sounded good until you tried to use them. First you had to blow into a device to detect if you’ve been drinking. Lovely.
Then there was the alarming habit of the machine not giving you your wine. Swell, huh.
The first kiosks were placed in Wegmans supermarkets. The problems soon followed. At first the machines were shut down as the state attempted to fix the glitches. Then Wegmans decided to pull the plug.
Now comes the latest blow. Wal-Mart is putting a cork in plans to put the kiosks in their stores.
What a great system. It’s no secret where I stand on this issue. I want the state out of the booze business. A bill in the Legislature now would address that, but it doesn’t have any effect on the way beer is sold in Pa.
So plan on continuing to visit three different places for a six-pack of beer, a case of suds, and a bottle of wine.
Cheers!
Remember all the hullaballoo about those kiosks where you can purchase your favorite bottle of wine?
Sounded good until you tried to use them. First you had to blow into a device to detect if you’ve been drinking. Lovely.
Then there was the alarming habit of the machine not giving you your wine. Swell, huh.
The first kiosks were placed in Wegmans supermarkets. The problems soon followed. At first the machines were shut down as the state attempted to fix the glitches. Then Wegmans decided to pull the plug.
Now comes the latest blow. Wal-Mart is putting a cork in plans to put the kiosks in their stores.
What a great system. It’s no secret where I stand on this issue. I want the state out of the booze business. A bill in the Legislature now would address that, but it doesn’t have any effect on the way beer is sold in Pa.
So plan on continuing to visit three different places for a six-pack of beer, a case of suds, and a bottle of wine.
Cheers!
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