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Should more grocery stores be allowed to sell alcohol?
The big supermarket chains don't seem to be as price-competitive on wine as their campaign literature would lead you to believe. (Boston Globe)

Supermarkets outspending package stores in referendum campaign for more licenses to sell wine
So far, supermarket chains have pumped $2.8 million into their campaign for more licenses to sell wine, while package stores, liquor wholesalers, and beer distributors have raised $857,000 to defeat the plan at the polls in November. (9/12/06)

Study hits wine sales 'monopoly'
Advocates for a November ballot initiative that would allow more Massachusetts food stores to sell wine said yesterday that their proposal would save consumers $26 million to $36 million per year by ending the ``virtual monopoly" of wine sales by package stores. (8/23/06)

Whine merchants
Massachusetts' big liquor wholesalers and local package-store owners are digging in, preparing to spend millions to protect their turf against the supermarket chains, which are making yet another run at breaking into the lucrative wine business. Their public message, as euphemistically expressed in the name of the mom and pop package owners' campaign committee: ''Stop Alcohol's Further Extension To Youth," ... (3/22/06)