Regardless of where the price points fall, I'm happy to have the state out of the retail liquor business. Just as private business provides for my beer and wine needs, I will patronize one or more of the new private vendors of liquor, tho admittedly I don't really consume that much. I'm still working on a $50 bottle of Scotch from last fall and a $60+ bottle of tequila I got at the duty free store leaving Cancun a year ago March. On the other hand, a large trash can barely contains all my beer and wine bottles for recycling every 4 weeks.

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