Wal-Mart + Booze = ?

So apparently Wal-Mart has started selling booze in some locations. From the Center for American Progress:

Wal-Mart's corporate strategy relies heavily on portraying itself as a family-friendly place to shop. No CDs with offensive lyrics. No magazines with objectionable cover photos. No trampy, single-mother Barbie dolls. All that flies out the window, however, when faced with the promise of more money. The mega-store now, contrary to its family-friendly image, is stocking its shelves with booze. The company's favorite trick to boost profits: "planting a liquor store just over the border of a state or county with restrictive booze laws." It's also finding ways to skirt local laws about selling alcohol. In Florida, for example, "it has gotten around a law restricting the sale of liquor in grocery stores by walling off the liquor department and building a separate entrance in some of its new stores." For more on Wal-Mart's family-friendly policies, see this article on Wal-Mart selling guns to minors and convicted felons.

I'm not one to ever oppose anything that might make that sweet nectar booze cheaper, but the hypocrisy here is just too much. I'll be buying my scotch at the local liquor store, thank you.

Random Thought: Maybe if Wal-Mart starts driving local liquor stores out of business we'll start to see a real revolt against their BS. Drunks of the world unite!

Follow-up Random Thought: I'd love to work field trying to organize drunks.