Liquor 'superstore' set to open in Vancouver near grade school

Why would KATU waste their time with this story and then make it worse by interviewing and quoting those two morons, the Souders?

B.A.T.F.E. should indeed be a convenience store.  At least they are finally getting part of it right.   Just saying.

Bev Mo is an excellent Liquor Store!  I shop at one in CA every time we go down.  Great selection, great prices.  And they have their own label too.

You can find just about any alcohol at Bev Mo!  But I don't think liquor store placement has any relation to grade schools.  What are they trying to say?  That 10 year olds with fake ID's will be buying more booze because they can actually walk there without needing their parent's permission to cross the street??

there are schools every 50 feet.. so how is this news?

Well, now that the Elementary school kids know there is a liquor super store 1 mile away from their school, they will all hang out there after school while draining bottles until bedtime, right?  I bet the Target will be happy to see all those rotten kids not boozing it up at their store, also 1 mile away from the school.

Also, Mike and Catherine Souder are complete morons.

better the around the corner from a police station

im against everything

And there were 5 fast food restaurants across from my high school and i still turned out ok. Seeing a large liquor store never gave me an incentive to be an alcoholic and drive drunk thru a parking lot.

LOL!   Washington's gonna need a mighty big roost.

I lived a couple blocks from a BevMo in San Jose for several years. I think all the doom and gloom people need to educate themselves before they give opinions. BevMo has always been a well run business. I loved being able to shop there, and I don't even drink. They are however the best place I've ever seen to carry some great non alcoholic beers and wines that no one up here has access to. Also an unbelievable selection of mixers, soda pop and snack foods. And they will be hiring a lot more people than a small family owned liquor store.

"The sky is falling! The sky is falling!"

"You don't know if there's going to be more panhandlers attempting to get the product around here or whatnot," Souder's wife Catherine said. "You don't know if people are intoxicated when they're driving through this parking lot, so that's a little worrisome."

"The BevMo! store will be int he same shopping complex as a Target store, which now also sells liquor."

"a former state run liquor store down the street will be closing."

Ummm.... So, the liquor store down the street and the Target which now sells liquor are apparently okay?

Is it because of the size of the operation? Is it the discount nature of their product? I mean, I'm trying to understand where his concerns are coming from. And, just my opinion, if your elementary schools student is influenced into drinking by walking by a liquor store and seeing advertising, may I humbly suggest that you never, EVER, under any circumstances allow them to watch cable TV. 

"Mike Souder, who lives nearby said he isn't looking forward to kids walking to or from school being exposed to the prominence of BevMo! products."

What is going on with society? Everything is offensive and/or dangerous to everyone!  How on earth did we manage to survive this long?

I have 3 gradeschools a middle school and a high school within a mile of me. This is such a non-story.

Waaah waaah waaaah. File this one under the Who Cares file. Its not like gradeschoolers are going in the store...gimme a f**king break.

What? Are grade schoolers all of a sudden in danger of a liquor store near them? Really? I mean we have a high school near a liquor store and guess what? They still can't get liquor there. Is there really a bunch of parents upset about this? Do you know that there is liquor in grocery stores now too Parents? Isn't there something wrong with that too in your world?

Ive been waiting for one of these to come to the area.  The nearest BevMo is in Redding and I always stop when I'm in California.  They don't have bums, drunks, or panhandlers sitting outside, in fact they're quite clean and the selection is amazing.  I can't remember the last time I went to a liquor store and they had everything I wanted, that wasn't one of these stores. 

Let me get this straight, they want to legalize marijuana but liquor store near a school is bad?

Colorado, California, and other states have stores like these.  When I went to one, I never saw drunks or panhandlers outside them.

Next coming near to a school by you, Ganja Mart.

I don't see that this would be anymore detrimental to the neighborhood and school than the Target nearby selling booze. I doubt there will be any more drunks in the area than there already are.

All the Washington Voters who voted against it are probably the ones complaining now. That's how America is. Hadn't you noticed? The GOP doesn't like the President? Well, they'll just take a majority of the seats in congress and block everything the President tries to do. Same thing for liquor in Washington. I call it "Sore Loser Complex".

reality check Washington voters wanted this

Why hasn't the DEA raided and shut them down, without making any arrests?

In California I would buy whiskey and ammo at the longs drug store and head up to Azusa canyon plus they had dime ice cream cones

Who cares.  There are thousands of liquer stores near schools.  Drunks don't buy from liquer stores, the buy from fast food stores.  Maybe we should ban police near schools as they have hand guns and assault rifles.  The US has become nothing more than a paranoid country.

KATU, how did the story come to your attention?  And the school location?  The couple that was interviewed -- where they actually just happening through the parking lot or were they complainants?  

I first just read the story and thought it was silly.  But then I watched it.  The reporter seemed to be asking leading questions of the couple (who appear to have been on their way in and/or out of Target when cornered by the reporter).  Somehow I get the feeling that the reporter, looking for a sound bite, kept prompting the couple to think of reasons why it could be bad or dangerous for the liquor store to be located so close to the school.  Pan handling?  Really?  That's a pretty big stretch.

Heck, i wouldn't even know what the store was if it wasn't "brought to my attention" in the first place!

Like others have said, its not really a valid story.  Recently, in fact, there've been several stories (ala Dr. Phil and such) talking about alcoholic moms driving to and from school picking up their kids and taking them to activities (http://www.everythingaddiction.com/addiction/alcoholism-addiction/the-secret-lives-of-alcoholic-moms/) so that seems to be a bigger concern to me than where the store is located.

I went to one of these in southern California once, pretty sweet!

I Live Across the street from this. Do you not see a 7-11 across the street from the store? Also Fred Myers and Walmart are in the same area. Really People? Tired hearing what about the"KIDS"  excuses.. 

Trying to make a story about a non-issue, love it. I know, it's a slow news day.

COOL!

I love how people are treating this BevMo like it's a brothel.    What about the KIDS?!? hahaha jesus.

Interesting how the Columbian titled their story on the exact same topic, "Liquor Super Store comes to Vancouver." Quit being so melodramatic, the police station is 2 blocks away from where the store is going to open at. If it's that much of a concern the VPD can take a left when pulling out of the police station and drive for less than 30 seconds to patrol the area.

Maybe if they had called it "Booze R Us".

I can’t believe this is even an issue. I grew up in a small town in California that had a couple convenient stores that sold alcohol. It was a non-issue because it was the norm. If you make a big deal out of nothing then it becomes an issue. I think having State liquor stores is ridiculous and when they go away the media wants to get ratings so they do make an issue of it. I never saw anyone “drinking” behind the store and I walked by one of them every day to school. People are scared of change and the media takes advantage of that for ratings.

I wonder what the response would have been if this was a gun store?

Can't speak to the prices at this store, but the BevMo stores in Arizona are very expensive in their pricing. CVS Pharmacy has the best prices on hard liquor in Arizona, followed by Walmart. Don't know how the BevMo's stay in business in AZ, unless it's because they may carry brands of hard liquor and wine that other discount shops do not.