For the sake of argument, let’s say that this morning I broke the ridiculous Pennsylvania law intended to force the state’s residents to buy wine at our state stores, and went out of state to buy a case of wine. And let’s say I went across the river into New Jersey and visited Moore Bros. in Pennsauken. To make this experiment interesting, let’s further suppose that I e-mailed them yesterday, gave them a budget, told them the kinds of wines I like (and the kinds of wines I don’t), and asked them to put together a mixed case of eight reds and four whites.
Wouldn’t that have been fantastic? What a shame that law-abiding Philadelphians can’t make the short trip across the bridge to Moore Bros. I suspect they would really be pleased by the experience. If only we had free-market capitalism re: wine shopping in Pennsylvania…