Trader Joe’s, Safeway and King Soopers all plan to immediately sell wine in their stores.
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Posted inElection 2022
It’s official: Coloradans will be able to buy wine in grocery, convenience stores starting in March
Grocery and convenience stores with a license to sell beer can begin selling wine March 1. That’s approximately 1,819 licensees as of June 2021.
Posted inElection 2022
Push for wine sales in Colorado grocery, convenience stores is too close to call as voters reject two other booze ballot measures
Measures that would have dramatically changed the way Coloradans buy alcohol were failing Tuesday night, even with $30 million in campaign donations
Posted inOpinion Columns
Opinion: The same rules should apply to big-box stores and local liquor stores, again
Proposition 124 would restore fairness and give home-grown businesses a chance to compete.
Posted inOpinion Columns
Zornio: Split the ticket on alcohol sale and delivery in Propositions 124, 125 and 126
Both sides are pushing an “all or none” approach, but splitting the ticket may increase convenience while preserving local businesses
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Proposition 126: Should Colorado restaurants be allowed to sell to-go cocktails forever?
Proposition 126 also would let third-party delivery services, like Uber Eats and DoorDash, deliver alcohol
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Could liquor stores be a solution to Colorado’s food deserts?
If there’s one thing Colorado has a lot of, it’s liquor stores. There are more than 1,500 of them in the state. And state Sen. Kevin Priola sees them as a way to help eliminate a stubborn problem plaguing both Colorado’s inner-city neighborhoods and rural parts of the state: food deserts, areas where people have […]
Posted inBig Idea, Business, COVID, Culture, Food and Restaurants, News, Politics and Government
Big idea: Colorado could extend to-go cocktails beyond coronavirus to make them the “law of the land”
It’s about the only thing from the pandemic that people want to keep. A bipartisan bill up for debate this legislative session would allow the to-go Moscow mules, Manhattans and margaritas that became a welcome part of quarantine life for many Coloradans to keep flowing. Lawmakers last summer passed legislation to allow restaurants to continue […]
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Small liquor stores in Colorado felt pinched by new alcohol laws. Now more changes are coming.
Days into the new year, the owner of Morgans Liquor in Denver sat down with his financial books. The pandemic gave him a small boost in 2020 sales, but a troubling slide continued: His customer count continued to decline. “My dollars were up, the rings (on the register) were bigger, but my customers were still […]
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The effort to ban flavored vaping products, menthol cigarettes in Colorado now has a big asterisk
Democratic state lawmakers set out this year to pass a bill banning the sale of all flavored vaping and nicotine products in Colorado, including menthol cigarettes and wintergreen smokeless tobacco, as a way to curb teen use. They won’t get it done. On Tuesday, House Bill 1319 — which sought to impose the blanket ban […]