Background: Washington State ended their wholesale and retail monopoly on liquor on June 1, 2012, resulting in a 5-fold increase in liquor outlets in diverse store types. The legislation also included taxes at the wholesale and retail levels. This study seeks to investigate whether prices have ...
For decades, Washington had state-run liquor stores that were the only places where hard liquor could be sold. However, in 2011, Initiative 1183 passed, allowing the sale of liquor in private retail stores, including grocery stores. Soda Tax Keith Bell Soda Tax In 2018, Seattle imposed a ta...
Have in mind what the wine is for before you are bogged down by numerous regions, prices, etc. Are you looking for a simple wine to serve with dinner or planning a party for twenty? Knowing what you are looking for before you are in the store will help you to make better selections ...
Randy Simmons, the state Liquor Control Board's project manager for legal marijuana, said the first two dozen stores were notified so early to give them an extra few hours to get cannabis on their shelves before they are allowed to open their doors at 8 a.m. Tuesday. The store openings ...
We say our unions need to fight for escalator clauses in every contract — and to cover everyone on Social Security, disability or a pension — so our wages and benefits go up every single time prices rise. Out of these struggles we can build our own politi- cal party, a labor party,...
” Students from around the world moved to town, bought homes, opened businesses. If you heard a foreign accent at the Safeway, says Foster, you assumed they went to RSE. Plus, he’d heard, at one point Yelm’s state-controlled liquor store had the highest sales of red wine in...
California’s wine industry is known for its innovation and quality, and many California wineries have gained international recognition for their wines. The state’s diverse climate and soil conditions make it well-suited for growing a wide range of grape varieties, which allows winemakers to produ...
Like the Disney store, TGI Friday’s still exists but not anywhere near Boise. In fact, not anywhere in Idaho. The Nampa location was the last one in the state, but it closed at the end of June 2023. If approved, In-N-Out Burger plans to demolish that location and put its third ...
Like the Disney store, TGI Friday’s still exists but not anywhere near Boise. In fact, not anywhere in Idaho. The Nampa location was the last one in the state, but it closed at the end of June 2023. If approved, In-N-Out Burger plans to demolish that location and put its third ...
“foreign” out-of-state wines (including wines from California) has to be distributed through the more rigid channels of the state liquor monopoly, the Washington State Liquor Board. The result was that “domestic” wines were relatively easy to purchase and widely available, but “foreign ...