When visiting Arizona last year we got a last minute invitation to dinner on Sunday. Stopped and bought a bottle of wine for a hostess gift. In my mind I thought this would not be an option in Minnesota. We must have many visitors to Minnesota that feel the same way. You know it isn't always about "us".

Are we now listening to our Liquor Store Director, who is not a resident of Edina, on what we should or should not be putting in our bodies? This is the same person who received a college scholarship for his family from the Minnesota Municipal Beverage Association and did not turn the money over to the City of Edina Treasury. JCC

Mr. Grausman (and his "colleagues, for that matter") has no standing or authority to tell consumers when they can purchase alcoholic beverages!

Public employees, such as Mr. Grausman, are hired by the public to serve the taxpaying public, and not to force their personal views on us. By the way,this is something that the Edina City Council should learn as well.

Mr Grausman's concern is the potential emergence of competition as liquor sales are open on more days and ultimately available at more outlets. Trying to limit consumer choice through regulation will always fail in the long run. Does he really expect me to be concerned that providing me choice will impact his cost structure?

Pretty sad to have Mr Grausman given any credibility. What a customer-unfriendly self-serving bureaucratic statement that does not represent residents. I am offended that only the young want liquor on Sunday. We all have surprise get together's. Should our homes have a stockpile on hand? Or should we go to restaurants and bars instead of at home?
This is all about convenience for your customers and residents Mr Gausman, not your costs, profit margins or days off.

If 59 percent of the voters wish to have liquor sold on Sunday.....I guess it's up to the legislators to decide not Mr Grausam. Almost every state I travel to sells liquor Sunday. They also sell it in grocery stores. Minnesota us behind the times. If I want to buy granola, cookies and liquor on Sunday it's not Mr Grausam's decision....its mine. If he does not want to work Sunday replace him with someone who will accommodate consumers.

Maybe the Liquor Store Director would like the Fire, Police, Emt and other City depts. to take Sunday off some holidays as well. Edina could cut costs and be more profitable. The City is not supposed to make a profit, it supposed to provide services to the residents. France 44 and other liquor stores in Mpls., Wayzata, Minnetonka, St. Louis Park and Bloomington love when Edina closes the stores on the national holidays, they reap huge sales on those days. I would bet than even the Liquor Store Director has driven to those cities on a holiday or two to buy a few Colt 45s. If our Liquor Store Director feels so compassionately about this issue and controlling our personal decisions, he should run for elected office.

Oh by the way, I believe one of Edina's largest companies and employers, Jerry's Enterprises, would love to compete against the Municipal Liquor Store monoply. In a Patch story, they are investing tens of millions of dollars in Woodbury for a new store and an attached liquor store. They own Cub stores in Minnesota that have attached liquor stores Also Target Corporation is in support of allowing grocery stores to sell product. I'm sorry, please tell Director to keep his opinions to himself. If he wants a platform, he can go buy his own private store and keep it closed on Sundays and holidays. The City of Edina can vote and decide to rid itself of the stores, like Shorewood did a few years back. They made millions on the limited licenses they sold and are collecting significant taxes along the way. Jerry's would probably pays millions for the York store next to the Cub they own. Lund's would pay millions more for the 50th street location next to their company headquarters. The Vernon location could sell to the highest bidder, probably Jerry's again. Millions and millions of dollars (retire other City debt) in cash and a future income stream. We don't seem to have a problem giving out more and liquor licenses to restaurants and bars that operate seven days a week and on holidays. I hope he thinks it is alright for me to have a glass of wine at Pittsburgh Blue in Galleria today, otherwise I'd go to Kincaid's in Bloomington. This scenario sounds familiar!

Unless the "liquor director" supplies real statistics of how liquor sales work on Sunday around the country, why should anyone take him seriously? What statistics is he using? No store has sold liquor in Sundays so what is he comparing it to?

I have been following this with interest. Apparently our liquor director who may be active in the Municipal Beverage association has been fighting Sunday sales. Why do you ask is he doing this? An article by Jeff Guntzel in the MInn. Post on 3/24/2011 is illustrative of this. The executive director of the municipal beverage associaton had this to say, "“It’s not about a day off,” says Kaspszak, “and we don’t deny that Sunday sales would probably be good for some of our members in specific locations. It’s that threat of this leading to wine in grocery stores.” Why doesn't our liquor director just tell the truth about this. Heavens forbid we be allowed to run into Lunds and pick up our dinner and check out a bottle of wine at the same time. It might harm his job security....nevermind giving some of us a little convernience in our lives.