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TexasTowelie

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Mon Jun 26, 2017, 01:46 AM Jun 2017

The last beer runs: Minnesotans no longer need to come to Wisconsin for Sunday sales

HUDSON - Sheri Dawson and Barry Heikkila wanted to mix a few cocktails with their favorite brand of tequila so they checked online to see which liquor stores were selling it near their St. Paul, Minn., home.

Then they realized it was Sunday.

If they wanted to buy tequila, they would have to leave their home and travel across the border.

Which is how the Tucson, Ariz., natives ended up at Hudson Liquor over the lunch hour on Sunday, making their purchases and then getting back on Interstate 94 to cross the Mississippi River again.

“This is our last week of doing this,” said Heikkila as he paid for his tequila. “We were one of the ones from out of town who would forget that it was Sunday.”

Read more: http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/wisconsin/2017/06/25/liquor-stores-wisconsin-border-towns-worry-sunday-sales-minnesota-could-hurt-business/427136001/

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The last beer runs: Minnesotans no longer need to come to Wisconsin for Sunday sales (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jun 2017 OP
Perhaps it will effect Wisconsin's tax revenue! LakeVermilion Jun 2017 #1
now if they would just get rid of those damn vikings....might be an ok state to move to dembotoz Jun 2017 #2
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