Yesterday our “What We’re Reading” section included a report that Amazon apparently was violating the terms of a liquor license by not having a retail store at a warehouse from which it delivers alcohol.
Today, the California Alcoholic Beverage Control officials said they are investigating.
“The cat’s out of the bag and I imagine that the people at Amazon are scrambling right now, saying: ‘ We don’t want the ABC on us’,” Matthew Hydar, supervising agent for California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control said. “They could have some plausible explanation, giving them the benefit of the doubt. Or, there could be even more egregious violations. Such as, as you pointed out, knowingly filing an application with false information.” Read more here, from Wine-Searcher.com.