US: NY: No consensus on wine in grocery stores
US: NY: No consensus on wine in grocery stores
Feb 12, 2012 6
(Auburnpub) - Despite Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s recent comments opposing the sale of wine in grocery stores, business groups supporting the proposal hope he rethinks his position.
According to media reports, Cuomo said the sale of wine in food stores would be “disruptive to many stores, mom-and-pop shops.” But groups like the New York Farm Bureau think it would help the more than 300 wineries in New York.
“Studies have shown that making this common sense modification in state law would create more than 6,000 jobs in wineries and related industries and produce more than $70 million in new sales tax revenue,” New York Farm Bureau President Dean Norton said in a news release. “It’s long past time that we remove this barrier to consumer choice and job creation and become the 36th state to make this important change.”
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