Publix, Liquor Stores Unite To Keep Walls Between Groceries, Booze
October 27, 2015 | 1 min to read
TALLAHASSEE — Need a little proof that lobbying will be heavy during the 2016 session about whether grocery shoppers should be able to load their baskets with vodka and gin while picking up some eggs and cereal?
Publix, ABC Fine Wine & Spirits and the Florida Independent Spirits Association this week joined forces to keep walls, the actual solid masonry kind, between grocery aisles and rows of liquor.
Calling itself Florida Businesses Unite, the coalition, which also includes a number of smaller liquor stores throughout the state, wants to keep corked the latest bills (HB 245 and SB 420) that seek to lift an 80-year-old state law requiring liquor stores and bars to be separated from other retail goods.
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