Posted on 03/21/2020 5:05:56 AM PDT by Libloather
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Friday announced an executive order that mandates 100% of the state's workforce "must stay home, excluding essential services," until further notice. That order does not apply to liquor stores, the New York State Liquor Store Association clarified later Friday.
"Liquor stores have been deemed an essential business and may remain open," the association said in a press release. "You do not need to reduce your workforce. This applies to all SLA licensed entities as per the SLA."
Beverage manufacturing, including alcoholic beverages, is also considered an essential operation, and is included under the state's list of exemptions, according to the SLA.
Other exemptions from the executive order include shipping, media, warehousing, grocery and food production, pharmacies, healthcare providers, utilities, banks and related financial institutions. "Bars and restaurants are closed, but takeout can be ordered during the period of closure," the governor's website said.
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Was in a long line in an Upstate liquir store yesterday.
People, to a customer, were far more po’d at Cuomo and Albany than they are scared of the virus.
Upstate is a mess. And the pols are doing far more damage than WuFlu.
Indeed so.
A good snort ranks right up there with chocolate on the list of basic food groups.
BTW, if Albany’s plastic bag ban is contributing to the spread of WuFlu, just something else we have to thank freaking Albany for...
internal sanitizer
Beside being locked up in a house full of kids requires some alcoholic relief
Got keep the alkies from going into DTs and drinking bad hooch.
I once heard on the Food Channel, that the Four Major Food groups were: Fat, Grease, Salt & Sugar. They missed Alcohol and Chocolate. LOL.
I agree. If people can’t do anything else, at least let them enjoy a drink. If we are all going to suffocate, at least let us enjoy a drink.
Well, there goes my idea for a bathtub gin business... Cuomo ruins EVERYTHING!
Somebody tell Tom Wolf
Does this mean i can’t open a marijuana stand along rt 17?
Why not? Have you ever been to a full-blown Italian meal without some variant of red wine?
Right, governor?
Hey you need to take care of your mental health. All the experts are saying that. Sounds like doctor’s orders to me.
As long as you’re offering free late-term abortions as well, I should think that most anything is permissible.
Alcohol sales = government revenue. That’s all they care about, not the hundreds of thousands of businesses they are driving into the ground
It is.
Not to mention our “humble servants” mysteriously becoming multimillionaires living in multiple mansions?
Just as the founders intended no doubt.
“What can you catch from a liquor store?”
A case of Corona?
NY doesn’t collect a sales tax?
That’ll be OK if ya have a drive-thru window.
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