Politics & Government
Booze Sales at N.J. Supermarkets On Agenda
Legislature mulls changes in state liquor laws to allow alcohol sales in supermarkets and big box food stores.
Assembly Majority Leader Louis Greenwald (D-Camden) wants to allow supermarkets in New Jersey to sell alcohol.
The Assemblyman told NJ.com that he wants to lift a cap on the number of retail liquor licenses an individual person or company can hold in the state. The two-license cap, he said, has kept chains from buying licenses and has kept supermarkets out of the liquor-sales business.
New Jersey is one of just five states to effetively ban liquor sales in supermarkets, according to New Jersey Newsroom.
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Greenwald told NJ.com that the move also would create incentives for chains to open supermarkets in urban areas.
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