For 159 years, liquor stores were not even allowed to be open Sundays. Until March 2017, that is, when the Minnesota Legislature passed a law permitting liquor stores to be open Sundays from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. “Everyone in Minnesota knows this area pretty well.”Compared with the owners of other border liquor stores, Gaffer is fortunate. But in Wisconsin counties bordering Minnesota, state sales taxes collected from liquor stores fell 5.5 per cent over the same period. It isn’t clear yet whether Minnesota liquor stores are seeing an appreciable rise in sales.

Source: thestar February 03, 2018 23:37 UTC