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Library : Position Papers MADD Position Statement: Wine in Grocery Stores Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Minnesota and its Youth in Action Team opposes the expansion of wine into grocery stores. Grocery stores traditionally employ teenagers as employees and service teenagers as customers. To increase the availability of wine by increasing locations may result in the increase of alcohol-related problems for our youth. Research clearly shows that underage drinking increases as alcohol availability increases -- when alcohol is more available, it is easier for young people to obtain. Compliance check data in Minnesota have proved that those stores, including grocery stores who sell 3.2 beer show worse compliance rates with youth access laws than liquor stores. MADD is committed to the prevention of underage youth access and consumption of alcohol. |