Colorado shoppers could have more options to buy full-strength beer and wine following the introduction Thursday of a bill that would overhaul the state's liquor industry by extending retailers' ability to sell alcohol. The new bill, likely to be heard next week in the Senate Judiciary Committee, would: • Allow liquor-store owners to operate up to three shops, up from the current one-store limit. • Allow liquor stores to set aside 5 percent of their floor space for selling nonperishable food items. • Introduce a new class of liquor license that would allow retailers to sell wine and full-strength beer. • Limit beer and wine displays in supermarkets and convenience stores to 5 percent of floor space. • Require 20 percent of those displays to contain craft beers and another 20 percent to contain boutique wines.
I think that the selling more strengthen beer and wine can cause more DUI in Colorado and the 5% of the floor shelves with can food would cause the liquor store to not gain profit from that. Plainly I think it is a bad idea.
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