![]() When those big-box stores have licenses for 20, 30, or an unlimited number of stores, every liquor store in the state will have the same opportunity. Our version of Applejack here at Tamworth Distilling starts with a blend of 100 grown and pressed. It will ensure that when the big-box retailers are allowed 8 licenses, Applejack and every other store like ours can also have 8 licenses. Proposition 124 seeks to keep a competitive retail environment by ensuring a level playing field. How much shelf space will they have for beer, wine and spirits next to the dog food? Will they be willing to take a chance on a Colorado start-up the way Applejack did with New Belgium, Breckenridge Brewery, Wynkoop beer and so many others? I doubt it. No one can honestly believe the buyers in Bentonville, Arkansas, or Cincinnati, Ohio, will care at all about the new startups in the Colorado craft market. Proposition 124 can stop this demolition and ensure that customers continue to have competitive prices, quality service and great selection.Ĭolorado craft brewers and distillers have thrived in our independent market solely because stores like ours were open to carrying local brands. The competitive retail environment would vaporize. That’s not an outcome I anticipated.įor our customers, it would mean higher prices and dwindled selection as the big-box retailers wipe out local liquor stores and establish a monopoly. How can I ask my kids to come into a business I know would be pulverized by these big-box retailers? What two generations have built would end with me. It would mean there is nothing to hand down to the next generation. The big-box retailers will be allowed to multiply while independent stores like ours are denied the opportunity to grow and compete - unless Proposition 124 is passed.įor me, as an owner of Applejack Wine & Spirits – a store that first opened in 1961, before I-70 was completed past Kipling – the failure of Proposition 124 would mean the business my family has worked so hard to grow and serve our community would be destined to wither and die. ![]() That unfair advantage in the current law means national big-box retailers will quickly come to dominate the market at the expense of the locally owned stores we see today. To make matters worse, within a few years the law grants them an unlimited number of licenses at their hundreds of locations, while stores like mine will be capped at 4. ![]() Under the current law, those big-box retailers are allowed eight liquor licenses and locations local liquor stores are allowed three – less than half as many as our competitors. Opinion: Set same rules for big-box and local liquor stores, again Close ![]()
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