Picture a Baptist minister at the pulpit on a Sunday morning, beseeching his congregation to see the light; or a football coach on the sidelines on a Sunday afternoon, exhorting his team to move the chains on fourth down.
“How long are we going to allow the parking lots in Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island to fill up with Connecticut license plates every weekend?”
Amen to that!
“How long are we going to watch our residents cross the borders to buy in other states the exact same products that they could be buying here in Connecticut from local Connecticut retailers?”
Hear our prayer!
“And how long are we going to continue to cheat the consumers who do shop here with exorbitant prices and inconvenient hours?”
Hallelujah!
“I refuse to believe that Connecticut”™s many small package stores are only in business today because of the protections provided by the state.”
(Um, did he really say that?)
“They are in business because of the hard work and commitment of their owners and because of the unmatched level of customer service that that can only be found in a small retailer. Connecticut residents including myself will continue to patronize stores where we get the best service ”¦”
”¦ Okay, governor, we get the picture.
Trust us, if wine and liquor could be purchased here, there and everywhere, a majority of package stores would not exist today.
See any Woolworth”™s around these days?
But like the five and dime soda counter, the Sunday prohibition on liquor sales was an anachronism in a modern world. Now it”™s history
