A ballot initiative this fall would allow Colorado grocery stores to sell wine and full-strength beer. (AAron Ontiveroz, Denver Post file)
Re: Time for a deal on sale of booze at Colorado grocery stores, April 24 editorial.
Your editorial quotes state Sen. Pat Steadman as saying, People need to understand that all of the liquor stores today have been required by Colorado law for like 80 years to be independent small businesses. They can only have one liquor store license per owner. To change that overnight I m afraid they d become very vulnerable to competitive pressures.
Why is it government s role to protect the liquor store owners? Why shouldn t they be vulnerable to competitive pressures? These stores have enjoyed a regulated oligopoly for all these years and it is ridiculous to continue it. Why should they get this special treatment?
Please let Colorado come into the 20th century — now that the rest of the world is in the 21st.
Randy Wilson, Denver
This letter was published in the May 3 edition.
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