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http://www.omaha.com/article/20120206/NEWS01/702079963#can-cheap-beer-be-outlawed
Published Monday February 6, 2012
By Paul Hammel
LINCOLN To some people it sounds downright un-American, but a bill in the Nebraska Legislature would outlaw cheap beer.
State Sen. Russ Karpisek of Wilber testified Monday in favor of his proposal to prohibit grocery and liquor stores from selling beer and other liquor for less than its wholesale cost.
Karpisek said he fielded plenty of complaints from small grocers and liquor outlets last year after they noticed that some large supermarkets were selling cases of beer below cost.
The retail strategy is known as a "loss leader," in which a store will sell a product at less than its market value so that customers will be drawn into their business and buy other stuff stuff that has a profit margin built in.
FULL story at link.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Plus, we can't buy any alcoholic bevarages on Sundays. And supermarkets cannot sell wine or hard liquor. Stupid antiquated blue laws.
Swamp Lover
(431 posts)Come on CT. Try to be as progressive as South Carolina.
FarLeftFist
(6,161 posts)DJ13
(23,671 posts)Sure, why not.
unblock
(52,243 posts)yeah, looks like they're talking about retailers selling below the price the producers charge them, not the producers charging below the cost of actually making the stuff.
but still....
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)which leads to unfair competition with small businesses that can't afford to take a loss.
Still, that's part of the free market thing, right? I don't know.
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Initech
(100,079 posts)If cheap beer is outlawed, brew your own. It will be way better and won't have the canned taste that Bud and Coors do.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)And that is downright unAmerican.
Justice wanted
(2,657 posts)sales.
Ohio Dem
(4,357 posts)many places that sell beer advertise that they sell at the "legal minimum price," so I assume that is the law here. I see nothing wrong with it. It keeps Walmart from running places like small carry outs out of business.
msongs
(67,409 posts)A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)I had a professor in college that also ran a small store. He told us that he bought his Pepsi and Coke products at BJ's because he could get it cheaper there than he could from the local distributor. Seems to have a lot to do with volume buying. I think beer probably works the same way.
There was a country store on my route to and from work years ago that sold a local brand of beer far cheaper than anyone else in the area. He did it by buying in volume.
niyad
(113,318 posts)that the legislature has time to focus on things like this.