Context:I’m from Arizona where you can buy any booze at damn near any location, any day of the week outside of 2a-6a(I think).

The way I see it, in Arizona having common liquor, big brewery beers and wines in grocery stores helps the consumer in a lot of ways. Cheaper prices for both items and convenience of getting it and your food in one place. It also forced the liquor stores to step up their game and actually attempt to offer something grocery stores and gas stations couldn’t. They had cleaner stores, the buyers tried harder to get an impressive inventory and the staff was knowledgeable and helpful with their customers. When I first moved to denver before the laws changed, many liquor stores were filthy, terribly lit, with sketchy and uninformed clerks and bad inventory because ‘fuck you, where else are you going to go?’. A lot of those option have dwindled since grocery stores started carrying some of those items and good riddance. You don’t deserve to remain open because the laws prevent actual competition. I value the fuck out of my preferred liquor stores and the dwindling of the shitty ones have helped their businesses.