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Codman Square to get nippier: State overrules Boston ban on sale of liquor in tiny bottles at local packie
By adamg on Mon, 01/16/2017 - 10:38pm
The state Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission ruled last month that the Boston Licensing Board erred in requiring the new owners of a Washington Street liquor store to stop selling nips.
The ruling requires the local licensing board to amend Crown Liquors' license to permit nips sales at its 571 Washington St. outlet.
In recent years, the licensing board has generally required new owners of package-store licenses to not sell nips on the theory they encourage street drinking and littering.
The state commission ruled the board can keep doing that - but only on proof there is support in the surrounding community for such a license requirement.
Although representatives from Mayor Walsh's office and City Councilor Michael Flaherty urged the board at a November, 2015 hearing to ban the nips when Christ and George Stamatos took over the old MOD liquor store, the commission said no residents formally objected to nips sales and that neither of the city officials provided any specific reasoning at the hearing to ban nips.
Mod Liquors had sold nips for 35 years, the commission said.
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The state caps our licenses in a different way than every other municipality in the Commonwealth
because of anti-Irish sentimentfor our own good.Love it.
Obligatory
The state effort was lead by Boston resident Rep Moran of Brighton.
Thanks Brighton voters!
While this decision is
While this decision is welcomed, there remains a low threshold at a transfer of ownership hearing for putting this type of a condition on a license when the store down the street has no such condition because its ownership just hasn't changed for several years. Seems to me that all stores should be treated the same.
As it's said
One small nip for man, one big gulp for license approvals.
Ugh - nip bottles.
I have picked up 100s if not 1000s of nip bottles around my local liquor store. I hate them. You clean them up and 4 hours later there are more.
Local residents are missing something when the don't formally object.
With the uptick in using condos in Beacon Hill as Air B&B it could be that there will be fewer people who care enough to object to these things.
Not a theory
Nip bottles absolutely lead to littering. Walk around downtown Roslindale and you'll see them everywhere.
The guys who bought Alex's liquors in Roslindale improved the place a lot and seem very nice, but man do I wish they'd stop selling nips. Be stupid business on their part though, so we're stuck with litter.
Fields Corner too
I often find empty nips on my street in Fields Corner too. And anyone who frequents the balcony in the Garden for Bruins or Celtics games knows that empty nips are a permanent feature in the bathrooms. I say ban them in all Boston liquor stores.
What's the blast zone?
If nips from a liquor store are such a huge littering problem, should a liquor store be expected to pick up nip litter some radius from their building?
SOLUTION: Educate the bums!
Drunks and bums alike should be taught the economics of scale. All educated folk know that buying a pint of half pint will give you more bang for your buck! At least the quarter pint guy! C'mon! All it takes is a liiiitle more will power to just hang in there and keep pan-handling a little longer to get to that quarter pint level. The "I just need 37 cents to get to my sister's in Framingham" bit seems to work well...
Then when the shakes wear off you can focus on new and creative cardboard signs to fatten your average donations/hour. Hell if you can stave off the nips for a whole day maybe you can work up to a [plastic half gallon of Cossak! Its all about responsible spending. VOTE WITH YOUR WALLET. Also, guys, c'mon, no one is getting anywhere on dollar scratchies. Forget that and put your money to bulk booze purchases. $2 and up is where the actual winnings are. $1 scratch tickets are truly a miserable tax on the hopeless.
Should I create a pamphlet or something? Hand em out? How do we get the word out to Boston's nip purchasers? This is important stuff.......
Better solution
Declare nips to be deposit containers.
Or a State-wide Ban on Selling Nips
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plastic half gallon of Cossak
plastic half gallon of Cossak! Have to share it then. 40 ounces of beer are called stoop beer for the same reason