Roger rocks. I am sick to death of having to drive over the bridge on Sunday when I need some hooch -- or, just as bad, having to plan in advance!

I also am heartened that he's trying to restore tax reciprocity between MN and WI.

I quite enjoy my weekly sight-seeing drive over to the Hammond every Sunday.  They have the best bloody Mary's there.

The Minnesota liquor lobby will fight this every step of the way. It fought allowing liquor stores to advertise liquor prices. It fought allowing liquor sales in other outlets like grocery stores. It'll fight allowing Sunday sales, too.

W.T.F - Maybe they should require all stores to only be open for one hour every other week.  This would solve the problem of being overworked and save on electricity ;)

IMO If you own a store and want to be open, you should be able to be open.

It isn't like you would have to be open on Sunday if you didn't want to.

Sounds like plenty of people in Duluth drive over the Bridge on Sundays for the extra hooch, so I don't think there will be much to complain about along the boarder cities. Further inland... perhaps, but the reality is while I do sympathize with the smaller businesses they are not operating on the same field as all other businesses (minus car dealerships). So small liquor stores get a salary break by being forced to close one day a week, but restaurants, bookstores, art galleries, gas stations, grocery stores, etc etc are put at a  disadvantage because there is no such provision to force them to close one day a week. So, yeah.. I say normalize it all. Either allow liquor stores (and car dealerships) to open on Sundays, or require all businesses to close on Sunday. I'm actually just fine with either one.

Normalize!

Could someone explain why the Liquor Lobby would be against this? I mean, is it advantageous for businesses to be required not to sell their products on certain days? I'm not a businessperson but it seems like having the option to be open and able to sell your product makes more money than being closed.

@ian, you can make anything look ridiculous by taking it to the illogical extreme. Hardly my point. As some one who has worked in a Ma and Pa liquor store and has friends and family that own/work in Ma and Pa liquor stores I know for a fact that none of them want to be open on Sun. The only exception probably would be from border cities. Sunday comes around every 7 days just like clock work. Is it really that complicated to think ahead?

Whether they want to sell liquor on Sunday or not, I say dump the law, as it was created in response to have a "Christian day of prayer" (insert separation of church and state argument here).
If a buisiness owner still would like to take Sunday's off for whatever reason, they are not forced to open their store on Sunday, they are just given the option to be open on Sunday.

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When I lived in Montana and other places that had normal liquor sale laws ( like Europe), I came to equate the acts of buying beer and wine in places like the co-op and grocery as ones belonging to civilized society. Whereas here, baby Jesus or whoever is telling me what to do on Sunday.  I liken this to barbarism.  When Wisconsinites were forced to quit smoking in bars they cried bloody murder, no one thought it possible, but somehow the wheel kept turning.  Now they get to enjoy nice clean Arctic air outdoors with their fags, and leave my lungs out of it. There are myriad other elements which hurt/help any given store's sales.  Creepy clerks, high  prices, filthy walls and floors, body odor.  What's curious to me is the greater theme of picked sides, lines drawn and crossed,  when the status quo is challenged.   Everyone who works Sunday would like it off, if money wasn't an object.