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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's the article about it:

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/news/montgomery-countys-liquor-store-in-chevy-chase-to-close-sunday/

"The location, steps from the Friendship Heights Metro station and Washington, D.C., line, was criticized in a 2014 report commissioned by the DLC that revealed it lost $278,431 in 2013. It was the only one of the county’s 22 retail locations to lose money that year. The report recommended closing the store once its lease ended."

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I would wager a guess and say that was because it was a horrible location. Invisible from the street and located in a neighborhood that is like 90% elderly retirees, pus in a brand new building so the rent was probably sky high. As far as I can tell MoCo DLC has little or no advertising budget so they certainly didn't put any effort into letting people know that store even existed.  As the article you linked states, it was the only county store to lose money, all the rest are doing fine.  [/quote]

And yet, all the DC liquor stores just across the border seem to be doing fine...

Maybe it was a bad location and bad marketing -- because the government isn't great at those tasks typically done by a privately-run business -- another reason for the government to get out of the business.

MoCo would make money if the set up a monopoly on gas stations, grocery stores, and furniture stores. They'd make millions! Yet no one is pushing for this -- because the government shouldn't be in businesses that private industry can run better, except in rare cases like security/defense.[/quote]

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