Package stores will be able to deliver that favorite bottle of Blanton's Bourbon to your home. Governor Tate Reeves is expected to sign HB #1135.
The measure allows package stores to deliver their alcoholic wares to their customers at home as they've been doing under the pandemic. Customers must still provide ID showing they are at least 21 years old. The driver must possess a device that can scan the license, verify the date of birth, and collect the customer's name. Senator Josh Harkins explains the bill in the video posted below.
37 comments:
This is great and all but there are certain stores out of state that have my juice. Please allow them to ship to MS!!!!!
Does the new law require our local liquor stores to actually stock Blanton's?
Drizzly is the app used in Nola. Uber bought it.
Really very convenient
@1:34 now there's an idea we can all get behind.
Another example of the legislature sticking head in sand and refusing to fix the bigger problem which is an antiquated dysfunctional state warehousing system. Instead they smear a little lipstick on the pig's lips and everyone celebrates. No one more qualified to explain it than mr. do-nothing harkins.
Now the good Christians can have their satan juice delivered discreetly to their homes instead of having to show their face in public buying their booze.
Yet the state's ABC is out of pretty much all the good stuff. Not sure why that is. The ABC needs to be dissolved. The seem to be the hold up on everything. Why wont the state allow us to mail order booze?
This is great! Now my preacher won't see me (a deacon) in the package store.
Who the hell runs out of whiskey and calls the liquor store for delivery? This makes no more sense than calling the pharmacy for a condom.
Liquior store can now deliver to my house, but the problem remains, the state can't get the liquor delivered to the liquor store. This is just smoke and mirrows to take your attention off the bigger problem.
How about the legislature fix/solve a REAL problem?! I agree with @2:05 PM that we have an antiquated wine & booze distribution system in this state, but we've got a lot bigger fish to fry than how our favorite beverage makes its way into our homes. We could go on and on about the real problems that our our state faces, but this hack Harkins spends his time with this kind of bullshit!!
Un-marked delivery vehicles ? Asking for a friend.
DEFLECTION....address the REAL problem...The State needs to get out of the alcohol business. So instead of tackling the problem head on, we'll do this and maybe the citizens will be quiet for a while.
Lazy. If you can’t make it to a liquor store when it’s open you are lazy.
Just like voting.
Follow the money from the liquor store lobbyists as to why we're stuck with the antiquated rules and warehouse.
Agree with all the others here, the issue is ABC. Why can’t I order from a website like the 1st world states? Oh yeah, it’s because we have the limited freedoms enjoyed by all Republican controlled states.
So what do we do to abolish the ABC. Sorry for the dumb question but really...how can it be shut down???
The "limited freedoms" of Republican controlled states?
Didn't all the liquor laws originate and have been continued under Democratic rule, but now are being changed under GOP???
Didn't Saint William Winter, Dem, begin his career collecting booze tax for the state?
Are we really missing alcohol, being 5th RANKED in DUIs???
WTH. Do you think California is a land of "unlimited freedom?"
That's cackling psycho crazy. Whitfield rubber room crazy.
Or maybe you're just drunk.
So will they deliver from Stanley's in the ghetto to my gated WASP community behind the megachurch in Flowood?
How awesome. Now people can get drunk without leaving their homes. For sure the Liquor industry lets the Legislature know who’s in charge and where their money will go come the next election. They also tell our awesome legislators exactly what better not pass and just like little pups they all get in a straight line. Why our legislation may even keep some drunk drivers off the road. Heck it almost makes me forget that I don’t drink. There are rumors the liquor industry paid some big money blocking the passage of 2765. That was the medical marijuana legislation that would have covered Mississippi if the Supreme Court stomps prop 65 in the dirt probably in May or June of this year. It would be hard to understand the reasoning unless one understands why. And that would be keeping the competition illegal as long as possible or until they can get involved with the new cash cow.
Ask any liquor store owner or restaurant owner about what they think about the ABC these days.
This must be what Empower Mississippi wanted.
So what do we do to abolish the ABC. Sorry for the dumb question but really...how can it be shut down???
federal lawsuit, ie commerce clause
Why is the Mississippi state government in the Alcohol business?
Get out of it, now!
See, the state is not in the Gambling business, or the marijuana.
Will weed delivery be on deck one day?
Follow the money. The state has no incentive to stop ripping off its citizens. It’s money in their pocket as they operate a monopoly with a guaranteed by law 27.5% markup.. They would make the mob blush with their brazen thievery. Every legislator who doesn’t want to fix this is likely getting a kickback. No telling how many cases of Blantons end up out the back door into a senator’s wife’s suv. Shad needs to get his ass over there and set up shop, but he won’t because ...
Something good out of the Covid deal.
It will be somewhat satisfying to hear the milk bottle clack on the front porch as the liquor man delivers my daily bottle of booze.
Just like mom and dad listening for our milkman back in the good old days.
I guess if it keeps drunks off the road it could be a good thing.
2:22 PM
You'd probably need to check the floor of the warehouse for pools of liquor.
Will they deliver to apartments and Battlefield Park in Jackson? If you thought pizza delivery was dangerous, jess waite.
If they can't be delivered to a resident of a dry county, it's a half-measure.
So cute to hear all the boo hoo. Guess what people? If the state gets out of the liquor business, the first thing that will happen is prices will jump 25%. This will happen day 1.
@10:33
What's your rationale behind prices jumping by 25% if the state exits the liquor business?
10:33 - How you figure that since the prices are 25% cheaper in surrounding states? Won't wait for you to answer since you're watching cartoons now anyway.
Doing this will bring on tough decisions. Do I call for home delivery, or drive across the Vicksburg river bridge to Delta, Louisiana like I have done so many times since I turned 18 (legal back then). We were driving back across the bridge one night and the boll weevil e guy on the Vicksburg side asked if we had any boll weevils in the car. A good friend was driving and he told the inspector, "There is no way on earth a boll weevil could survive all of the alcohol in this car.
If you have never been to Delta, Louisiana, you should go for a visit and buy some cheaper than Mississippi booze. Plus the folks there are really nice. Good liquor. Better prices than Mississippi and for years, the closest place to buy lottery tickets that supported the little school children of Louisiana.
Get out of the liquor bidness and eliminate an easy income stream for the state? Are you serious! Gunn would have to increase consumer tax to 13.7 and, although he often toys with the idea of political suicide, he ain't that close yet.
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