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state without a shipping permit (eg. from specialty wine retailers) is a felony punishable by 1-2 years in jail. Neighboring states North Carolina, Georgia, Virginia and Missouri can have wine shipped into the state to consumers but Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama and Kentucky cannot.
Thirty-three states sell wine in grocery stores, including six of Tennessee's border states Alabama, Georgia, Missouri, Virginia, North Carolina and Arkansas. We support the sale of wine in grocery stores because the competition with other retail wines sales results in lower prices to consumers as well as an increase in the number of wine varieties and brands available. Our Tennessee legislators tabled a wine-sales-in-grocery-stores bill in June 2009 in spite of the fact that polls showed over 70% of the population in favor of such sales. |
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