The little bottles of booze at Huntington Wine and Liquor are displayed prominently at the front counter of the Boston store, some stacked neatly in display cases, others tossed haphazardly in trays.
, whose family has owned the store since 1970, estimates that they account for up to 15% of his sales.But he might be on the verge of losing those sales.
The little bottles are favored by people who want to drink in their vehicles because they are easy to hide from police and the empties can just be tossed out the window, Arroyo said. Other Massachusetts communities that have banned the sale of the tiny bottles have seen benefits, Arroyo said.in 2018 became the first municipality in the state to ban liquor stores from selling the bottles that cost as little as 99 cents.
“It wasn’t just the aesthetic problems, with bottles everywhere, we were dealing with public intoxication, we were taking people into protective custody and transporting them to the hospital,” he said.The discarded bottles, found clustered by the side of the road, in parks, and in waterways, are not biodegradable or recyclable. In the Hyde Park neighborhood that Arroyo represents, a community volunteer cleanup crew collected 10,000 of the bottles in two months, he said.
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