Tuesday, December 4, 2012
The Route 114 store now stocks specialty beers, wines and liquors -- most of them brand name products -- and at an affordable price.
Alcohol finally hit the shelves last Friday at Trader Joe's Peabody store. Customers can now pick up some brand name specialty beers, wines and liquors, along with other local brands from microbreweries and wineries. Check out the latest Fearless Flyer for some of the current selections on sale. Trader Joe's paid a local record amount ($205,000) to Frank Martino, who owns Martino's Liquors on Route 1, for the all-alcohol package store license. The company says alcohol sales are actually a regular part of its business -- most stores in California sell it -- but are just scaled back in Massachusetts because of strict license limits. Thanks to the state legislature passing a law last year increasing the limit for a single business to five …
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Friday, September 28, 2012
Trader Joe's received OK from City Council Thursday night to hold package store license to sell specialty beer, wine and liquors.
Without much ado, city councilors agreed Thursday night to let Trader Joe's obtain a package store license for its Route 114 location. Councilors voted 9-1 to approve a special permit that allows the grocery store to seek or obtain an all-alcohol license for retail sales. Only Michael Garabedian voted against the petition, but did not explain his vote during the public hearing. Councilor Bob Driscoll, a self-professed Trader Joe's fan -- just wanted to know one thing: "I'm just wondering where you're going to put the spinach," he asked with a smile. Attorney Andrew Upton, chuckling, said "I am assured by senior management that we will continue to sell spinach." Upton showed the council plans that only contained minimal changes to the …
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
The City Council will hold a public hearing to decide whether to allow the supermarket to sell packaged alcohol or not.
Trader Joe's will be before the Peabody City Council Thursday night for a special permit to allow the store on Route 114 to sell packaged alcohol. There are seven zoning districts in Peabody where package store sales are allowed – Trader Joe’s is Regional Business – and all require a special permit from the council. If the council signs off on the permit, next up is the Licensing Board for a hearing on the transfer of the license from Martino's Liquors to Trader Joe's. Martino's is selling the all-alcohol retail license to Trader Joe's for a locally record-setting $205,000, which has raised some eyebrows. The means by which the state effectively prohibits supermarkets, such as Trader Joe's, from selling alcohol is by restricting the amount…
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Bob Croce
12:46 pm on Friday, September 28, 2012
It was definitely the correct vote by the city council last night. Trader Joe's is the type of responsible business that we all want to see thrive in Peabody. But to Councilor Gravel's comments, is there a way to change the rules to keep business owners from using our licensing process to heap huge profits? The Frank Martino situation looks like "spilled milk" at this point, but shouldn't we try … more ›