Grocery store chains that want to legalize wine sales in their stores say it will add $160 million in revenues to the state in the first two years and save New Yorkers $80 million in lower prices through greater competition. Advocates also claim the law would add 2,000 jobs and help New York wineries.
But liquor store owners fear the measure would drive out one of the state's last vestiges of mom-and-pop retail.
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