A bit of a surprise.
When voters go to the polls in November, they will NOT be voting on a measure to allow more stores to sell booze.
The backers of the question instead say they are turning their efforts to passage of the question in 2022.
It was Cumberland Farms that was pushing the question.
The company in a statement over the weekend says that the company and others need to focus more on the health and safety of consumers rather than passage of the question.
"Consumers deserve our undivided attention in the fulfilling of essential services in cities and towns across the state," according to Matt Durand who is the chairman of the Ballot Question Committee.
Durand says that the need to have the ballot question pass is not in question.
They are committed to it for the next election cycle.
That proposed question would have created additional licenses to allow food stores to sell wine and beer products so they could be consumed off site.
The Massachusetts Package Store Association had blasted the effort.
They contend that the question's passage would have given bigger advantages to the big stores at the cost of the mom and pop package store.
Meantime, Durand says that the company is open to "a negotiated resolution" to the issue.
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