Gov. Malloy, in a potent tidbit leaked to the Junkie today, will announce his support for finally eliminating the prohibition of selling liquor on Sunday.
According to Malloy spokesman Roy Occhiogrosso, tomorrow the governor will propose allowing liquor to be sold seven days a week. Stores would be allowed to stay open until 10 p.m. and liquor could be served in bars and restaurants until 2 a.m.
Malloy will make the announcement at the Enfield town hall at 1:30 p.m.
“It is in the context of what other states around us are doing,” Occhiogrosso said. “If you look at the blue laws and you look at our neighboring states they all sell liquor on Sundays. This is not being driven by revenue.”
The plan would be voluntary, Occhiogrosso said and stores could still choose to close on Sundays.
We’ve heard in the past about the potential loss of jobs if small package stores close. What about all the packies near the borders that get hammered by customers going to Massachusetts, Rhode Island or New York to buy liquor?
Beyond that, isn’t it time to let go of this colonial habit? It’s not like folks aren’t drinking beer on Sundays or having a glass of wine with a Sunday night pizza.
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Ct gotta get with the times, most other states around us have this on sundayswhy not Ct.
Great idea. Too bad we are the last to embrace it…
Like online gambling, it is not a good idea. However, it may generate money for the state government despite what it says in the article.
Ct gotta get with the times not live in old Blue laws,
Great idea
CT is losing big revenue in not allowing Sunday sales. I frequently drive to the RI beaches on weekends during the summer months. On Sunday the liquor store lots are always full of CT plate cars. Furthermore, the CT underground economy is flourishing with Sunday liquor sales.
Considering there’s a banner at Big Y supporting Sunday sales and the package store lobby opposes it, it seems to me that this move would help the supermarkets more than the small businesses, other than those in places like Enfield and Danbury.
Why would Enfield package stores gain?? We have a Big Y, Super Stop & Shop, Shop Rite and a Costco and sit on the Mass line that has huge discount liquor just a few miles away I think this will be the swan song for the small package stores in Enfield!
There is a finite market for buying booze. Sell to in six days or sell to it in seven days it makes no difference. Mo-tax Molloy just thinks it will increase tax revenues, DUH!!!!
Cut state employees will reduce the need for more tax revenue.
What Governor Malloy has proposed sounds eminently reasonable. The state should not be in the business of shielding businesses from competition.
The government in general should not be in the business of restricting anything that isn’t explicitly bad for the population. Sunday alcohol sales are bad for nobody.
If I want alcohol on Sundays, I’m probably just going to go to a bar since stores are closed. This will inevitably end in me driving home from the bar since there is no public transportation of cab companies where I live.
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It’s about time!!!! It should not be a state law that determines when or if a retail store is open.
Ban all Sunday sales. Retailers should close early M-W and on Sat Night.
The good old days. The Late 70s when shopping and consumerism had its place.
Ask anyone from that era after the hours expanded–there wasn’t more money to be had just more hours for people to spend the same check.
It was the birth of the 60-hour a week salaried retail assistant manager who worked for less than minimum wage before the state had to pass legislation to accommodate the new realities in retail. Same sales, same profits but longer staff hours as salaried employees had to swallow 8-10 hours of increased coverage for little or mo additional pay.
Being close to the owner of a small package store, I agree that any business should be able to decide when to be open or closed.
But as we understand it, this bill will also allow big box stores, think Costco, getting permits to sell alcohol products, selling wine in grocery stores, etc. This will hurt a lot of small package stores.
They’ll close, stop paying taxes and people will lose jobs. If we could just have the bill allow grown ups in CT to buy alcohol on Sundays with out the other “deals” involved it would make perfect sense.
While this may have some truth, there are things smaller stores can provide that larger, big-box stores cannot.
We are in a day and age where small businesses must be innovative and clever to survive. It’s not easy but it must be done and it can be done.
The consumer also bears the responsibility for where we purchase our products. I will continue to support the package stores because they routinely provide better service, something that cannot be had at a Costco.
There are some ideals that are more important than a cheap product, and it’s upon those who have a stake in their community to realize that.
Also, there is one major thing a package store can offer (besides wine and liquor) that the big chain stores will probably never have…. and that is selection size.
Absolutely. Selection size, personal requests, specialty products which often have a much lower production volume. These are a few of my favorite things, heh.
The CT auto dealers opposed this for years because of what they knew: If one breaks ranks they all have to break ranks.
There’s no turning back the clock. Kids would rather spend their weekends at the malls than hang with Mom and Dad and the feeling is mutual.
It’s also one of the reasons the US will never have a French work week or make a success of French socialism. We’ll have the costs Euro-socialism but only a fraction of the benefits.
We simply don’t get it.
The reasons the US will never have a “French work week” is because the “French work week” is based on a closed system. Once international competition is introduced, it fails. Also, French businessmen are driven to distraction figuring out how to get around the “French work week”. Ironically, this drives jobs “off-shore”. You can argue the merits, but that is the reality.
The Liquor and Wine Shoppes have been against it-mainly saying people won’t come in huge numbers../if anything-staying open late–really means useing electricity–the option is a re-action to a small carbon foot-print–it show that a monopoly is just about-playing things along–like a option../I’d say–leave it to the store owner’s..I personally don’t want to stock up on alcohol–to meet the needs of locked doors../its a shopping thing–why the necessity..?
Interesting how all sorts of people who claim to be in favor of “individual freedom” and of reducing “government control” over people’s lives, are against permitting online gambling, and against allowing people to buy booze on Sundays. Philosophically, they ought to be in favor of having no restrictions whatever on gambling or on alcohol sales. But instead, they oppose these things … because a Democratic governor has brought them up.
Just goes to show that they are not, in fact, motivated by their stated philosophy. They are, instead, motivated by unthinking partisanship. In other words, they’re liars.
Online gambling is a un-secure website-most often–its a Phishing site../
The rest of your POSt–is communist–opiate of the people.
Forbidding people to gamble online or buy liquor on Sundays is, in fact, “government control over people’s lives” and thus are infringements on freedoms.
As for “opiate of the people,” you’re mixing your Marxist references. That, if you recall your reading of Marx’s “Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy,” was a reference to religion, not to freedom or control.
And I’m no communist, even if you think I am one. All I’m doing is pointing out that partisans will be partisans. The opposition is reflexive and contrarian, not the application of a serious, well-thought, rational policy. If you have a problem with people’s inconsistency, take it up with them … not with me for merely pointing it out.
The one thing you’re right about is that a lot of online gambling sites are scams. But not all of them are … there truly are some legitimate offshore online casinos.
Your a freakin’ flower child, we’re dealin with issues of the environment–and this is all about shopping–(?-shopping)../give me a freakin’ break from the drunks.
In Florida this has been allowed for quite some time, it works just fine. You can also buy wine in grocery stores and this should happen in Connecticut too!
If you are a small package store…Sunday sales are not good, More hours and the same sales income for the year. If Dannel wanted to make a change he would follow Massachusetts and eliminate the sales tax, so our Businesses would have chance to compete on Price with MA and NH. This is just another anti business proposal from the Dannel. Private sector growth in CT had grown 0.00% since 1990, the state Govt has grown 250% since 1990.
If the law is relaxed too allow 7-days a week..as long as the Liquor Store can set its own–time table..
Like OPEN 7-days..Closes at 8-PM..
This might bring things in-line more like a partnership–rather than some kind a Gov’t Decree..for some obvious flaw in Predicting the Future.
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Of course its about the revenue. Its always about the revenue with liberals. Tax and spend baby.
Connecticut could have 24/7 liquor sales and people would still load up in neighboring states. When liberals tax products into oblivion, people find ways to buy them somewhere else.
There’s a hint of hand holding–in the political NEWS../I don’t think Gov. Malloy is off course but he should realize–that the air stinks.
First gay marriage, then online gambling, and finally, liquor on demand. Now that’s what I call a family-friendly state! “Connecticut, the San Francisco on The Sound”
People are a difficult subject when they are behind closed doors..
Today’s out-in-the-open citizen is being baited..
The all-day SUCKER.
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