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Amazon Wine is Shutting Down

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday October 26 2017, @02:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the no-use-whining dept.

MrPlow writes:

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Amazon Wine is shutting down at the end of this year, the retailer has just alerted sellers via email. The issue at hand has to do with the existing laws surrounding alcohol sales, which Amazon has unsuccessfully tried to change by working with regulators. The existing laws make it difficult for Amazon to sell alcohol as a retailer and operate a marketplace. That's something that's even more of a conflict now that Amazon owns Whole Foods, which also sells wine, not to mention Amazon's plans to expand its alcohol delivery business through Prime Now and Amazon Fresh.

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/23/amazon-wine-is-shutting-down/

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by bradley13 on Thursday October 26 2017, @11:28AM (1 child)

    by bradley13 (3053) on Thursday October 26 2017, @11:28AM (#587762) Homepage Journal

    Alcohol regulations in the US are pure protectionism. Sort of like what Tesla is encountering with car dealerships. Basically, you can be an importer *or* a wholesaler *or* a retailer. Pick one. Suppose, for example, that you want to import whisky from a special Scottish distillery, and sell this to customers over your website. If you choose, for example, to do the import yourself, you must pay a wholesaler to take your bottles and hand them to a retailer, who hands them to your customers. Wholesalers and retailers are only allowed to work in specific regions, typically one state. So actually, if you have customers nationwide, you may have to contract with up to 100 other companies.

    Nuts, really just totally nuts.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday October 26 2017, @11:39AM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Thursday October 26 2017, @11:39AM (#587765) Journal

    It gets worse:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_county [wikipedia.org]

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