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Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Liquor Stores: Voters Support Privatization

Pennsylvania’s governor announces his plan to privatize liquor sales and a poll shows voters favor privatization. What do you think?

The idea of privatizing Pennsylvania’s liquor stores is not new. The majority of voters support the idea, according to a Franklin & Marshall College Poll. Of those polled, 34 percent strongly supported and 19 percent somewhat supported privatization, while 10 percent somewhat opposed and 24 percent strongly opposed. Historic data shows an interesting swing in support. The combined support of both strongly and somewhat was 53 percent in this February 2012 poll and in a June 2002 poll, the combines support was 55 percent, but the breakdown was different. In 2012, 34 percent strongly supported privatization, which is down from 42 percent in 2002. In 2012, 19 percent somewhat supported privatization, which is up from 13 percent in 2002. Gov. …

waldo von erich

12:59 pm on Sunday, February 17, 2013

The idea of privatizing Pennsylvania’s liquor, iam in favor of it, the state should not be running liquor stores. why does not the retail clerks union buy some of the state stores so they can be employee owned and operated ? liquor control board is another group that should dissolved .   more ›

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

State Stores to Raise Cost of Raising a Glass

The price of one high-end bottle of booze will jump by $140.

A buck here, 50 cents there, $140 for one bottle over on the top shelf—across the board prices will increase for 313 wine and liquor products in Pennsylvania, with some starting Feb. 1. The state's Liquor Control Board approved the rate hike at all Pennsylvania wine and spirit shops for the first time in 18 months, according to numerous media reports. The hike is rolled out over February and March. Impacting all state stores, the increase was spurred on by vendor pressure. "We couldn't continue to turn down the vendors’ requests for price increases, because we would risk losing the opportunity to carry (their) products," PLCB member P.J. Stapleton told the PA Independent. Vendors are allowed to request price increases four times a year, he…

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