Ma, Q # 1

[The Dad Fisherman]

Originally Posted by deepsushi

2.) The liquor lobby also tried their hardest to prevent Sunday liquor sales in the state of MA. They again played the BS public safety issue card on this one too. The fact is they did not want to have to open on Sundays in order to protect their pocketbooks.

Why would the liquor Lobby be AGAINST having another day to make money. Your telling me they would rather NOT sell on Sundays and have business ($$$) go to states like NH. what would be the rationale to that?

[stripersnipr]

Originally Posted by The Dad Fisherman

Why would the liquor Lobby be AGAINST having another day to make money. Your telling me they would rather NOT sell on Sundays and have business ($$$) go to states like NH. what would be the rationale to that?

Their feeling was it would not increase overall Liquor Sales just spread it over 7 days rather than 6 thus increasing their expense with no additional revenue. Don't forget their outcry against the implementation of the Mass bottle bill also.

[deepsushi]

Originally Posted by The Dad Fisherman

Why would the liquor Lobby be AGAINST having another day to make money. Your telling me they would rather NOT sell on Sundays and have business ($$$) go to states like NH. what would be the rationale to that?

Yes thats right they did not want to open on Sundays! Instead of having to pay for operating costs (i.e utilities, wages, etc) to be open on Sundays they increases their profits by filtering all their weekend sales into one day (Saturday) . Also, they effectively forced consumers to overpurchase and stock up on their booze out of fear that they might "run out" of alchohol on Sunday.

Also, while I did travel to NH a few Sundays in college simply to purchase booze (years ago when I was young and stupid) travelling from the Cape to NH is not realistic!