It’s time to allow grocery stores to sell wine

As the law exists in Connecticut today, grocery stores are allowed to sell beer but not wine. This negatively impacts hundreds of thousands of weekly grocery store customers who don’t have the option to buy a bottle of wine where and when they purchase food. Instead, one protected retail class of trade is allowed a…

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Lobby says support grows for selling wine in CT grocery stores

HARTFORD, CONN(WTIC Radio)-A poll commissioned by the Connecticut Food Association found 84 percent support a proposal before state lawmakers to sell wine in grocery stores. That’s a 12-percent increase in support from 2017. “Consumers have made it clear that they want the option of picking up a bottle of wine when they areshopping for groceries,”…

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