Should Booze Be Sold on Sundays?
With the NFL season in full swing, we're wondering how Minnesotans feel about the fact that liquor isn't available seven days a week.
The big game is starting in a few hours and you're having a bunch of friends over, so you head to Costco for a bottle of tequila and a 24-pack of Stella.
Oops. Not if it's a Sunday and you're in Minnesota. If you didn't plan ahead, you're stuck making the trip to Wisconsin, or organizing an alcohol-related potluck. Or, horror of horrors, getting through the game without "adult beverages."
The nonpartisan House Public Information Services Office conducted its 2012 opinion poll during this year's State Fair, and one of the questions concerned whether Minnesota liquor stores should be allowed to stay open on Sundays.
More than 9,000 people participated, and quite a majority (63 percent) answered 'yes.'
We're wondering what our readers think. Should Sunday remain liquor-free, at least for retailers? Or is this a vestige of Prohibition, long overdue for change? Please vote in our poll, and explain your feelings in the comments below.
hwy12goph
8:18 am on Saturday, October 20, 2012
Yes, allow stores that choose to be open. This is an antiquated blue law and it is pathetic it is still enforced.
Just Lil O'Me
7:32 pm on Saturday, October 20, 2012
You can already buy beer on Sundays at the grocery stores, (after noon I think) if you "need" more than that then perhaps you've got bigger problems than liquor sells! Just because the original reason behind a law isn't as "important" now as it was then, it doesn't make it a law that needs repealing ... Like the ones that make it illegal to swear in front of women/children ~or~ the one that makes it illegal to spit on the sidewalks ... Now many women & kids could offend a sailor, and we don't have the same issues with disease - but both make for a much more pleasant society.
Scott Fagerstrom
7:43 pm on Sunday, October 21, 2012
Thanks for your comment, Lil O'Me -- but I don't see it reflected in the votes above, which so far are unanimous in favor of allowing booze sales on Sunday!
Lorri Barnett
12:48 pm on Monday, October 22, 2012
Yes. Government should not be able to tell private businesses when they can and can't be open. We provide WI's economy with millions of dollars because people drive to Hudson on a weekly basis to buy booze on Sundays.
If as a liquor store owner you don't want to be open on Sundays, then you shouldn't be forced to be open either.