More ABLE silliness...

[Boozepusher]

Easy, the big breweries know their beer doesn't taste very good cold, much less warm, so they refuse to sell beer to establishments that can't keep it cold. And the liquor stores can't sell 3.2 because they can only sell intoxicating liquor here. It was so awful being exposed to the liquor store's outrageous pricing on Coca-Cola, Pineapple Juice, and other mixers when I lived in Arkansas. Almost as bad as going to Missouri and buying Patron in a gas station.

Some people claim that the breweries will only sell one kind of beer in a given state, but that's not accurate. Colorado, to use one example, gets strong in liquor stores and 3.2 in C-Stores. Stupidly, liquor stores can't buy 3.2 on their liquor license. It makes programming route sales handhelds that have to work in multiple states a rather interesting project. I'm just glad I was only doing 5 states and not 50.

This isn't entirely accurate.  Oklahoma doesn't allow franchising when it comes to strong beer, wine and spirits.  So if the big breweries (Bud, Miller, Coors) want to ship to Oklahoma they have to ship it to an independent distributor.  They do not want to do this, they want to set up their on distributorships.  So they only ship 3.2 because they can set up their own distributorships with  3.2 beer.   I hope that makes sense.


As you can probably tell from my screen name I am a liquor store owner.  I would like to see wine, strong beer and spirits in convenience and grocery stores. In return liquor stores should be able to sell non-liquor products including tobacco.  I feel that if we are going to change the current system let's have a real free market system.

[Hoss]

This isn't entirely accurate.  Oklahoma doesn't allow franchising when it comes to strong beer, wine and spirits.  So if the big breweries (Bud, Miller, Coors) want to ship to Oklahoma they have to ship it to an independent distributor.  They do not want to do this, they want to set up their on distributorships.  So they only ship 3.2 because they can set up their own distributorships with  3.2 beer.   I hope that makes sense.


As you can probably tell from my screen name I am a liquor store owner.  I would like to see wine, strong beer and spirits in convenience and grocery stores. In return liquor stores should be able to sell non-liquor products including tobacco.  I feel that if we are going to change the current system let's have a real free market system.

Were you one of the people on the Channel 6 Tulsa/channel 9 OKC chat last week?

[Boozepusher]

No, I haven't been on any chats.  At least not that I remember.

[nathanm]

As you can probably tell from my screen name I am a liquor store owner.  I would like to see wine, strong beer and spirits in convenience and grocery stores. In return liquor stores should be able to sell non-liquor products including tobacco.  I feel that if we are going to change the current system let's have a real free market system.

I agree 100%.

[Conan71]

I agree 100%.

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