No surprise that the nine Brunswick County ABC boards say they can be more profitable if they eliminate competition, or in their word “consolidate.” Hurting the consumer has been the standard procedure in Brunswick since the county returned to the alcohol business in the early 1990s.
Fearing competition from the new county stores, the towns persuaded the legislature to forbid the county system to place a store within seven miles of a municipality that already had one.
Daren wrote about similar anti-consumer regulation in the auto industry.
