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February 9, 2010

Time for states to privatize liquor sales?

  • Washington is one of a handful of states weighing whether privatizing liquor sales is the way to get back into the black.
    • By RACHEL LA CORTE
    Associated Press Writer

    Thousands of cases of whiskey, vodka and rum zip along three miles of conveyor belts inside a massive distribution center in industrial south Seattle, the sole location for shipping booze to liquor stores across Washington state.

    The 250,000-square-foot warehouse is the nexus from which all of the state's liquor is imported, processed, and moved out to the 315 state and contract stores, the only place where Washingtonians can buy hard liquor for home consumption.


     
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