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TexasTowelie

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Mon May 27, 2019, 04:53 AM May 2019

In South Carolina, a push to have alcohol delivered to your door is met with resistance

COLUMBIA, SC -- For a stay-at-home mom like Barbie Fulda, modern grocery delivery services such as Shipt and Instacart can save great chunks of time she once spent winding through store aisles each week.

But customers of those burgeoning online apps in South Carolina have run into one major obstacle: The services can’t deliver beer, wine or liquor here under current state law.

That means customers like Fulda must make a separate trip to the grocery store for a case of Miller Lite or a bottle of Pinot Grigio.

“It’s very annoying,” said Fulda, a 49-year-old Columbia resident who orders about $200 in groceries through Shipt each week and has it delivered to her door — saving her time to cook, clean and ferry her two teenagers to practices.

Read more: https://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/article230689424.html

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