Four decades in the making, a task force takes steps to rid Philadelphia of nuisance stop-and-go stores

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7. We still have state run liquor stores in Idaho for some reason. You'd think they would be trying to privatize those but

I don't see any attempt yet.

One of the huge mistakes I think was to allow the higher alcohol beverages in grocery stores here. I worked for a beer distributor before they did, and we had nothing over 5% alcohol. All those higher alcohol beverages like Old English 800 were in the liquor stores.

We hated that. We both thought it would be big trouble and we'd make less money. Guys could get drunk cheaper with all those cheap ice beers. Before that you had to drink wine if you wanted more than 5% alcohol unless you went to one of the two liquor stores in town. Almost no one bought those malt beverages and ales there because liquor stores didn't keep them cold.

Now you have every fruit flavor or whatever 8% alcohol in cans. That can't be good. They did away with all the flavored cigarettes because those appealed to kids but not the alcohol.