Nashville Food Blog

It sounds like a great idea to allow wine in grocery stores. I live in East Nashville and some of the liquor stores tend to attract drunks and addicts???
A somewhat uninviting atmosphere.....
.....it'd be great to hit a grocery store and feel a little safer!

I posted my support! Here's hoping this is the year! (raising glass)

When I moved here last year, from Alabama, it was a big shock that there isn't wine in the grocery stores. It doesn't make sense to me.

It's a huge convenience and is definitely more comfortable than going to a package store.

if you think this is arcane, check out the move to limit adoptions to only married heteros. Wine in the grocery store (and beer in the liquor store, something the grocers behind red white and food have NOT included in their bill) was my sole legislative goal this year, but lord love a duck, this legislature makes it hard to believe we're in 2009 at all. Who do these government-as-your-nanny people represent anyway??

MTSU just released a poll of 629 Tennesseans, surveying issues from the national economy to the state's legislative agenda. According to the poll, 62 percent of Tennesseans say grocery stores should be allowed to sell wine if they are located in areas that already allow the sale of alcoholic beverages.

Anyone who has been around for a while knows how long it took to allow liquor by the drink. Now, you have the liquor stores in bed with the Baptists in opposition. While I wish the effort a hearty yea, I hope they are in for the long haul.