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Alcohol industry seeks to lock in pandemic gains
“We still have a lot of rules in place preventing access to alcohol in different ways. In some states you can’t get alcohol in grocery stores, or in some states you can’t get alcohol delivered to your door,” said Jarrett Dieterle, a senior fellow at the R Street Institute and author of “Give Me Liberty And Give Me A Drink.” “When you have an exogenous shock like Covid, it makes you rethink a lot of public policy…”
“It’s going to be very hard to put the toothpaste back in the tube. We have become such a consumer economy that expects things to be able to be delivered to us on demand,” Dieterle said. “Consumers just expect that convenience.”
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