One less ballot question: beer and wine sales in food stores

Cumberland Farms is dropping their efforts to put a question on Novembers ballot to allow food stores to sell beer and wine. There may be a silver lining in that small convenience stores like those in the Ham who are selling beer and wine may hold on to that business until 2022. Nothing wrong with the mom and pop shops getting their share of the business. From MASSTERlist

In normal times, this would have been top news. But these aren't normal times. SHNS’s Colin Young (pay wall) and the Herald’s Sean Philip Cotter report that Cumberland Farms, citing operational and time pressures caused by the coronavirus pandemic, is dropping its high-profile ballot initiative that called for expanding the number of food stores that can sell beer and wine in Massachusetts. Bottom line: The issue will not be on the fall ballot. Though the issue could be resurrected later.