(02-07-2019, 08:34 PM).RJ Wrote: We have a couple of bottle shops here that dont sell food (wine cabinet in reston, dominion in falls church before they started selling food, norms in vienna...) something else must have been going on
I wouldn't be surprised if there was but it is a lot more likely that the new sheriff in town just wanted to flex. That's a story as old as time. Different regions have different managers so that explains why things are different in NoVa. I highly doubt there's anyone dumb enough to try this bullshit all across NoVa.
Here's the categories VA ABC has for wine + beer off premise licenses: Grocery store, convenience grocery store, delicatessen, drugstore, gift shop, gourmet shop. That's it, there is no license specifically for bottle shops. No clue how Total Wine skirts that non-sense probably because there's special provisions for wine wholesalers.
(02-07-2019, 10:30 PM)Sully Wrote: That's crazy. I don't understand how you can't sell off premise beer at your leisure. I used to deal with Lauren (name?) a lot when I was delivering up there. She was always pretty nice and easy to work with. What other bottle shop did they get? How does total wine and stuff get away with it? I feel like that's not how the law works.
Skyline bottle had an ok selection and I know she'd order whatever her distributors could get her if you ask. Or is she gone too? Melissa? (name? Maybe. That sounds wrong though)
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Yup Melissa at Skyline is gone. Was really mad about that because I could basically walk to it at my old place and its 2-3 minutes away from my house now and just so happened to be on the way to the kid's school.