PENNSYLVANIA, USA — The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board today announced that 50 more Fine Wine & Good Spirits stores in counties designated in the yellow phase of COVID-19 mitigation efforts will resume limited in-store public access beginning Friday, May 22, abiding by guidance for businesses issued by the Wolf Administration detailing social distancing requirements and other best practices in the interest of public health and safety.
Effective Friday, a total of 283 Fine Wine & Good Spirits stores in 48 counties will allow limited in-store public access.
The following mitigation efforts will be in place as these stores resume limited in-store public access:
- Stores will limit the number of customers in a store at any time, allowing no more than 25 people (employees and customers) in any location and further restricting numbers of customers in smaller stores.
- The first hour each store is open each day will be reserved for customers at high risk for COVID-19, including those 65 years of age and older. Voluntary compliance from all customers is encouraged in the interest of protecting the health and safety of our most vulnerable community members.
- Customers and employees will be required to wear masks and practice social distancing, guided by signage throughout the stores.
- Signage will also direct customers to follow one-way patterns to avoid cross-traffic and encourage them to refrain from touching products unless they intend to buy them.
- Store employees will perform enhanced and frequent cleaning and disinfecting, and store hours will be modified to ensure appropriate time for cleaning and restocking.
- All sales are final, and no returns will be accepted until further notice.
Prior to opening to the public, each location was professionally sanitized, and Plexiglas was installed at registers to provide a physical barrier between employees and customers at checkout. All Fine Wine & Good Spirits employees are being provided masks, gloves, and frequent opportunities to wash hands.
The stores offering limited in-store public access – as well as stores offering curbside pickup only – and their hours are identified on the store locator page of FineWineAndGoodSpirits.com (link is at the top, center of the homepage). The 283 stores offering limited in-store public access as of Friday are located in the following counties:
- one in Adams County
- 71 in Allegheny County
- three in Armstrong County
- nine in Beaver County
- two in Bedford County
- five in Blair County
- four in Bradford County
- nine in Butler County
- 10 in Cambria County
- four in Carbon County
- six in Centre County
- four in Clarion County
- five in Clearfield County
- two in Clinton County
- two in Columbia County
- four in Crawford County
- 10 in Cumberland County
- two in Elk County
- 15 in Erie County
- seven in Fayette County
- one in Forest County
- one in Fulton County
- two in Greene County
- four in Indiana County
- two in Jefferson County
- one in Juniata County
- four in Lawrence County
- seven in Lycoming County
- three in McKean County
- five in Mercer County
- one in Mifflin County
- one in Montour County
- four in Northumberland County
- two in Perry County
- two in Potter County
- one in Snyder County
- four in Somerset County
- one in Sullivan County
- three in Susquehanna County
- three in Tioga County
- two in Union County
- three in Venango County
- one in Warren County
- 10 in Washington County
- three in Wayne County
- 23 in Westmoreland County
- one in Wyoming County
- 13 in York County.
Stores reopening to limited public access will continue offering curbside pickup to the best of their ability, as they operate with limited staff. Statewide curbside pickup sales from April 20 through May 20 total more than 804,000 orders for $56.3 million, including sales tax, according to preliminary, unaudited figures.
The PLCB will also continue accepting online orders at FineWineAndGoodSpirits.com. According to preliminary, unaudited figures, e-commerce sales from April 1 through May 20 total nearly 193,000 orders for $18.5 million, excluding sales tax. In fiscal year 2018-19, e-commerce sales between July 1, 2018, and June 30, 2019, totaled 39,000 orders for $5 million.
The PLCB regulates the distribution of beverage alcohol in Pennsylvania, operates nearly 600 wine and spirits stores statewide, and licenses 20,000 alcohol producers, retailers, and handlers. The PLCB also works to reduce and prevent dangerous and underage drinking through partnerships with schools, community groups, and licensees. Taxes and store profits – totaling nearly $18.5 billion since the agency’s inception – are returned to Pennsylvania’s General Fund, which finances Pennsylvania’s schools, health and human services programs, law enforcement, and public safety initiatives, among other important public services. The PLCB also provides financial support for the Pennsylvania State Police Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement, the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs, other state agencies, and local municipalities across the state. For more information about the PLCB, visit lcb.pa.gov.
SOURCE: PLCB