Notes from the Old Noank Jail

Proposed Sunday sales law hurts little guy

Ed Johnson Noank

Publication: The Day
Published 02/11/2012 12:00 AM
Updated 02/10/2012 03:03 PM
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Once again, local Connecticut’s small businesses are threatened, this time by state politics connected with the sale of liquor on Sundays.

The actual addition of Sunday itself is not the major problem, but additional changes are being proposed by the governor that will result in unfair advantages for the big-box and large retail chain stores. These changes involve a release of fair price protections and location restrictions which threaten to put 1,200 independent package stores out of business.

In the Feb. 5 commentary appearing on the Perspective page, “Sunday sales law would kill our small package stores,” Mike and Mary Edgerton advocate that citizens contact their local and state representatives, along with the governor himself, expressing that these changes not be enacted and that small package store businesses in Connecticut continue to be protected by the current regulations.

Being open on Sunday is one thing, but changing laws to favor big chain stores is not fair and we’ve already seen too much of that in this age of “the 1 percent.”

I would suggest that citizens contact Gov. Malloy’s Hartford office, as well as their local state senator and local state Representative by phone, as soon as possible.