Why Isn’t there a Better Way to Buy Booze Online?

Clicking & Drinking

Direct-to-consumer online liquor sales is anything but straight forward. Find out why it's so complicated and hard to fix.

Published May 4 2021 12:14PM EDT

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You’re sitting on your couch on a Saturday afternoon and you read an article on your iPad about an intriguing Bolivian brandy. You think: I’d like to drink that brandy.

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Why Isn’t there a Better Way to Buy Booze Online?

Direct-to-consumer online liquor sales is anything but straight forward. Find out why it's so complicated and hard to fix.

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Wayne Curtis