Does anyone here own a liquor store?

[Meghan54]

Never mind the liquor store, be the supplier, start up a couple moonshine stills!

That actually does look like fun to do, it's too bad it's illegal.

Moonshine isn't always illegal these days.....

When the recession hit in 2008 and 2009, a number of states looked for ways to generate employment and keep tax revenue rolling in. One way to accomplish both goals was to loosen laws regulating distilleries. For years, the production of distilled spirits was legal only in a handful of Tennessee counties. But in 2009, the state legislature opened dozens of other counties to the business, including several in eastern Tennessee that had been home to unlawful moonshine production for decades. One of the biggest operations is Ole Smoky Moonshine Distillery, which opened in 2010 in Gatlinburg, Tenn. Roughly 250,000 to 280,000 cases of moonshine were sold in 2012, a jump from 50,000 in 2010 and 80,000 in 2011, according to food-and-beverage-analysis firm Technomic.

Moonshine, the outlaw hooch made famous in backwoods Appalachia, is now regulated by the government and is sold at Walmart. The spirit has grown so popular that even the industry's biggest distilleries are getting in the game.... http://business.time.com/2013/05/27/moonshine-is-growing-in-the-u-s-and-big-whiskey-wants-a-taste/

 

[brainhulk]

Mave to Colorado and start the Starbucks of marijuana

 

[MongGrel]

Takes a lot of work to get to were you can sell moonshine legal of course.

 

[Dr. Detroit]

Corner liquor store make an obscene amount of their sales from cigarettes, lottery tickets, scratch-its, and Four Loko.

If you can have a specialty that will attract other buys than you will be set.

One of our corner stores sells hard to find specialty beer by the single bottle - he specializes in IPA & DIPA beer.

 

[BladeVenom]

Wine store sounds appealing, corner liquor store doesn't.

 

[HybridSquirrel]

I didn't see at first you were in Hawaii. ABC stores got you owned for any liquor store thoughts you might have.

No ABC store outside of Waikiki.

 

[RossMAN]

Never mind the liquor store, be the supplier, start up a couple moonshine stills!

That actually does look like fun to do, it's too bad it's illegal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuUciIKohWE

 

[mrjminer]

IMO the real money would be at a gas station / liquor store deal. Then you can drastically increase your liquor prices to gas station prices and it would be expected for the convenience

Local beer only / specialty domestics or something might do it, though.

 

[BoomerD]

No ABC store outside of Waikiki.

Fucking ABC stores are all over Maui...


OP, why do you want to become a drug dealer? Why not get into some kind of respectable business instead?

 

[HybridSquirrel]

I turned down buying it. Entered negotiations but the owner wasn't looking to turn over current inventory. He had 100k in inventory that he wanted 150k for. Didn't make much sense. The owner was some old Vietnamese guy who was "retiring" but he wanted to retain partial ownership of the store. Meh.


Guess i'll buy some 7-11's instead.

 

[HybridSquirrel]

Fucking ABC stores are all over Maui...


OP, why do you want to become a drug dealer? Why not get into some kind of respectable business instead?

Mave to Colorado and start the Starbucks of marijuana

Funny. I moved to HI from CO last year.


Some how the forums time warped my own post.

 

[OverVolt]

And Nope.

 

[Ns1]

I reckon the same thing will happen to the boomers who have way too much of their retirement in real-estate because they will all be selling at a similar time, and the household formation rate among the 20-30 year olds is fairly bad so I'm not sure who is going to be buying all of the boomers homes with the tighter lending standards post 2008.

Answer: the chinese