LCB: 120 More State Stores To Open On Sundays
HARRISBURG, Pa. (CBS) -- The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board announced Wednesday that 120 more state stores will be open on Sundays. Sunday hours will also be expanded. And some state stores will now sell lottery tickets, as well.
Sweeping reforms to liquor sales in Pennsylvania were signed into law in June and now that law is taking effect. It allows for more Sunday state store sales. Liquor Control Board spokeswoman Elizabeth Brassell says 94 more state stores will be open Sunday this weekend, and on Sunday, September 4, another 26 will open.
"We're opening a total of 120 new Sunday stores, on top of our 188 existing Sunday stores, which means that more than half of our retail network this fall will be open on Sundays," Brassell said. "And we'll be open for three hours longer. We're no longer open 12 noon to 5 (pm), now it will be 11 (am) to 7 (pm)."
Brassell says the new state store Sunday locations were chosen based on their prospects for success…
"We know that 600 stores are not going to be profitably open on Sunday," she said. "We're going to take some traffic from nearby stores. So this is going to be a continually moving target on store hours and what stores are open on Sundays."
The new law also allows holiday hours. No state stores will be open this Labor Day, but there are plans to add operations next year on Martin Luther King Day, Presidents' Day, Memorial Day and the Fourth of July.
