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Haha at this. Even though it was about to become the final piece in close-to-my-house convenience.
Although now I will have to walk all the way across the parking lot from my $5 Little Caesar’s hot-and-ready to the booze aisle at Safeway.
I didn’t think this through.
knowing their mentality, they will open it for 2 months anyhow at a cost of millions.
It could still open.
Half the liquor stores in the state are not actually state run, but contracted out to operators. Those are grandfathered in, and if the operator wishes to continue running it as an independent liquor store, he may. And if it makes business sense.
So, here’s a question: I hate Costco. I don’t have and will never acquire a Costco membership. Will I be able to purchase liquor in Costco, seeing as how they basically bought our democracy and purchased themselves their own unique tax loophole to sell liquor cheaper than everyone else?
The day they start selling liquor, I will be going to a Costco and attempting to enter and purchase liquor without any kind of Costco membership.
I mean, is anyone else pissed that they’ve essentially created a segregated liquor-sales system which is only privately available to their members?
@4,
Hey dipshit – NOBODY BOUGHT MY VOTE. I voted to get the state out of the booze business because IT’S FUCKING STUPID TO HAVE THE STATE IN THE BOOZE BUSINESS.
So fuck you very much. I guess big liquor distributors bought YOUR vote.
You don’t really believe that only Costco will be selling booze, right?
@5: Hey diptard – Costco spent $22million on this initiative, that’s $6 for every voter in the entire state.
I support a privatization of liquor sales, but not a tax-free handout to Costco after they bought our democratic process with the most money ever spend on any voter initiative EVER.
They carved themselves a loophole where they don’t have to pay the taxes that other distributors do, and that punishes any small specialty liquor stores which should be what we are supporting.
So yes, not only will Costco be the major booze seller, ONLY OTHER MASSIVE STORES LIKE Costco will be selling liquor. And UNLESS YOU ARE A MEMBER of their club, you won’t be able to buy their tax-free booze, which is a benefit that ALL taxpayers (members of their shitty corporate whorehouse or not) are supporting.
That’s bullshit. So I will be attempting to enter their store whenever I can and harassing the fuck out of their asinine store greeters. Fuck Costco. They want to buy our democracy? Well, they’re going to have to deal with the messy public. I’m a taxpayer, and if they are doing to close down the state liquor stores, then I’m going to buy my booze in THEIR store, whether they fuck they like it or not.
@6 I just want you to know there are people out there like you that agree about this bullshit.
If I wasn’t recently in an exchange of words at a costco I would join you. Also, I don’t turn 21 until july, which is why i find it funny that i’m allowed to vote on a bill that currently I can’t take part in.
End of story is CostCo bought the election. Otherwise it would have passed one of the 2 previous times that costco chose not to donate 23 mil
10,000 sq ft isn’t massive. Get over yourself and go to the corner grocery if you don’t like Costco.
@6,
Hey brainless moronic fuckwit: I don’t give a crap how much Costco spent on the initiative. They didn’t buy my vote. I voted the way that I did because having state-run liquor stores is fucking stupid.
Just like you.
@7: clearly a cogent argument.
@10: You didn’t read my post. Try again. (Though I appreciate the variety of ad-hominem attacks though. Clearly, the key to making an idiotic argumentative tactic (such as name-calling) effective, is to vary it and use it repeatedly. Good work, sir. Or should I say fuckless moronwit brainic.)