{"id":128373,"date":"2015-10-20T15:07:43","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T21:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/20\/retail-chains-push-again-for-colorado-wine-and-beer-sales.html"},"modified":"2015-10-22T12:08:45","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T18:08:45","slug":"retail-chains-push-again-for-colorado-wine-and-beer-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/20\/retail-chains-push-again-for-colorado-wine-and-beer-sales.html","title":{"rendered":"Retail chains push (again) for Colorado wine and beer sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado limits grocery stores to 3.2 beer, and liquor licenses to a single location. Supermarkets and big box retailers are looking to change that. They&#39;ve been stymied in the past by independent liquor stores and, interestingly, craft brewers, but the plan is to, if need be, put it up to ballot initiative. <\/p>\n<p>If that happens, I suspect it will pass. And, as much as I like the major independent liquor stores (which will be hurt most), I&#39;m not sure that&#39;s a bad thing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/news\/ci_28996834\/beer-battle-brewing-again-grocers-back-push-wine'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/8w4WMw0fTvMDCI2Fr7folZ8JiJ55zRZqDdcwTRvGivQxjcZgJcgOucyaGnFhxbs7k6nc5N4zIQkKaNqNlCawUYAIkQkFmzpQHf141qoo7jtSbYZDRvaPzKCsqJgHYuIEqzg82Zw=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/news\/ci_28996834\/beer-battle-brewing-again-grocers-back-push-wine'>Grocers may take beer, wine sales question to Colorado voters<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nColorado&#8217;s largest grocers and Walmart are throwing their weight behind the latest effort to have the state&#8217;s food stores carry craft beer and wine.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/GLHLGvo74u6'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado limits grocery stores to 3.2 beer, and liquor licenses to a single location. Supermarkets and big box retailers are looking to change that. They&#39;ve been stymied in the past by independent liquor stores and, interestingly, craft brewers, but the plan is to, if need be, put it up to ballot initiative. If that happens, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/20\/retail-chains-push-again-for-colorado-wine-and-beer-sales.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Retail chains push (again) for Colorado wine and beer sales&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,74,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-food-drink-wine","category-zt-pc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":159605,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2022\/11\/01\/another-look-at-colorado-ballot-propositions-2022.html","url_meta":{"origin":128373,"position":0},"title":"Another Look at Colorado Ballot Propositions 2022","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 1-Nov-22 2:14pm","format":false,"excerpt":"As I sit down to vote, any changes of mind?","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Elections 2022&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Elections 2022","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/elections-2022"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":129571,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/29\/liquor-laws.html","url_meta":{"origin":128373,"position":1},"title":"Liquor Laws","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 29-Jan-16 1:15am","format":false,"excerpt":"Hey, look! 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