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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are small rural communities in more sparsely populated states where local government has established grocery stores and/or cafes to make sure these things are available, help keep money in the community, enable people to not have to drive 25 to 50 miles to buy groceries. (In some of these places, municipally-owned liquor stores or bars are the only places allowed to sell alcohol). A hired manager runs the business.

https://www.ruralgrocery.org/learn/publications/case-studies/St_Paul_Success_Story.pdf --took two seconds to find this, it's in Kansas

https://www.commerce.nd.gov/community-services/community-development-rural-prosperity/cdrp-resources/cdrp-grant-programs/rural

https://civileats.com/2025/08/20/op-ed-public-grocery-stores-already-exist-and-work-well-we-need-more/[/quote]

Pennsylvania and 17 other states (red, blue, and purple) have state controlled wholesaling of liquor. "State Stores" are the only places liquor can be sold by the bottle in PA, for example.
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Good point. Virginia, where I live, is one of them. So that begs the question: if a state can run for-profit liquor stores (alcohol, as a reminder, is not a need like food but a want), then why can’t it run some supermarkets? [/quote]

We don't want the state to run a liquor store. It's unfortunately been declared a controlled substance, you idiot. That's the only reason for ABC stores.[/quote]

It's a state monopoly, with no competition on pricing.  Not necessarily an ideal model for consumers.  [/quote]

The ones I've known about were municipal only. Where my family comes from there's a large region of the state settled by Scandinavian and German Lutheran farmers. Temperance movement was strong and many towns retained no alcohol sales ordinances. Hometown had 3.2 beer starting when Prohibition ended. It took 50 years and 3 separate elections for them to agree to a single liquor license that was purchased by the owner of the 3.2 tavern. Others went the municipal liquor route somewhere in the 40s or 50s. I would assume a statewide monopoly has some kind of regulation that determines overall profit margins. [/quote]

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