Will NY Allow Wine in Grocery Stores?

Dear Client:After a proposal to allow wine sales in grocery stores was dropped last March, New York Gov Paterson and other proponents have presented a “compromise” bill that they hope will pacify package stores. The state’s motivation, of course, is the one-time store franchise fee that Paterson’s administration says would generate about $92 million in the 2010-2011 fiscal year. Recall that after the grocery bill was squashed last year, Paterson implemented a tax increase on beer and wine, and a