Sacramento Stores Limiting Single-Serve Alcohol Sales In Experiment To Clean Up Streets
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Some Sacramento stores are giving up selling single-serve beer sales as part of an effort to clean up the streets in Del Paso Heights.
The single-serve alcoholic beverages can be big business for small convenience stores, but it tends to attract loiterers and a few other problems.
So the idea is to limit people drinking along Del Paso Boulevard by slowing the sale of single-beer bottles and cans. Store clerks will also put the bottles in larger bags to discourage on-street drinking.
Sacramento City Councilman Allen Warren says some store owners are accepting the idea.
"Decided that this was in the best interest of the community, and if it's in the best interest of our community, and the boulevard, then it would be in the best interest of their business as well," he said.
So far, five shops along the street won't sell single bottles of alcohol until after 10 a.m.
Warren admits the alcohol program won't cure the loitering problem, but it may at least limit the number of people drinking along the street.
"We don't want to stop people from drinking, but let's not sell it 24-7," he said.
Warren says they will review the program in three months to see if its had any impact and consider possibly expanding the idea to other parts of the city.
