OCEAN CITY -- Sales are up and relations are at an all-time high, but the recently christened Worcester County Department of Liquor Control (DLC) admits that there are still a few areas it will be working on heading into the winter months and next summer. Even with the improvements, however, some licensees are still eagerly awaiting the chance to leave the DLC, a monopoly that all Worcester County licenses must be purchase their spirits through, and join the free market in...
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County mafia.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Rick will get some backbone and do the same in Wicomico County.
ReplyDeleteWhere's Stevie Prettyman on this one?
It's not a free market if the government is running it. It's more than a just local monopoly it's a statewide monopoly on top of that.
ReplyDeleteEven though there are only 4 counties left in the liquor business, Montgomery, Wicomico, Worcester and Somerset, it's a state law that only one company can sell Jack Daniels. Only one company in the state can sell Absolut vodka and so on down the line.
Actually the county mark-up isn't that high, 25% on half gallons, the fact that the statewide company monopolies just piggyback the county mark-up and causes the higher prices in this state.
A tangled web.
(Former purchaser for WCLCB)