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City Feed and Supply wants to add beer and wine

City Feed and Supply goes before the Boston Licensing Board next Wednesday to request a license to sell alcoholic beverages along with its locally sourced produce and sandwiches at its 672 Centre St. location.

The store is seeking a "retail package store" license, so the beverages would be for consumption at home, not at one of its tables.

The board's hearing begins at 10 a.m. in City Hall Rm. 801.

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So where's all the fuss about gentrification caused by two stupidly-expensive glorified convenience stores? Oh, right. Gentrification is fine as long as it's not an evil monstrosity doing it.

Plus: won't anyone think of Blanchards?! Oh noes!

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Is Blanchard's owned by someone who happens to be a member of any minority group (non-white, gay, lesbian, transgender, non-Christian)? If not, then it's white vs. white and that does nothing for the phenomenon known as "white man's burden."

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I say go for it. But why anyone in their rignt mind would pay City Feed prices for wine when they can stroll down to Blanchards and pay a lot less escapes me.

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Much like their foodstuffs. Blanchards is great for everything else- but their organic/biodynamic wine selection is relatively small and I don't recall ever seeing a local wine being stocked. I imagine it will have a stock much like Formaggio's has in the South End (well thought out, if a bit on the pricier side).

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"Their organic/biodynamic wine selection is relatively small." Perhaps it's because both the sector and demand are so small. As for "local" wine, they carry Nashoba and Truro, but I don't blame them for going light on the notoriously weak Southeaster New England and Martha's Vineyard appellations. Want a local wine? Visit your small local wineries and cut out the distributor.

I don't know why City Feed isn't just looking to carry beer. They've had a surplus of whine during the last few months.

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Good one, JPArbor.

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We at Whose Beer demand that as a condition of being allocated a beer license, that they set aside a section of their cooler for brews consumed by the local minority drinkers with no retail markup.

Otherwise, they should break their lease.

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They're not the same owners as the Allston store, right?

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Aren't all the Blanchards owned by different cousins or something?

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I'm not completely sure, but I asked at the JP Blanchards if there was any relation to the Allston Blanchards and I was told there was a fallout within the family. The two stores are now separately owned by different sides of the family.

I was glad to hear this because I hate the Allston Blanchards.

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I don't know if it's cousins, but it's definitely disgruntled family.

When the Allston Blanchard's owner got in trouble for the security video showing him kick and jump on a dog in its crate, the others made it known that they have nothing to do with him (and want nothing to do with him, it sounded like).

So, yes, they're owned by different people and the businesses are no longer related in a business sense other than by name.

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