Looking into retail Liquor store

[Thomas]

Once you get past the legalities, it's relatively easy to get started (provided you have the money). The real trick is to stay afloat. The market is fickle and subject to every whiff of economic movement one way or the other--especially the wine market.

In addition, price controls by state governments often have the reverse effect, especially when large stores with buying clout dictate to distributors the price they want to pay (the only way they can get a better price is to receive un-invoiced goods). When that happens, the business gets truly dirty, and small shops become prey. That kind of activity is threatening is-wine's survival right now.

And then there are the Costco and Wal-Marts of the USA. If anything kills small business it's their buying power. Do not open a store within 100 miles of one of those things...