Long-Time Family Owned Package Store in Milford to Close

Shared by Loading Dock Wine & Spirits on Facebook:

The local and popular liquor store located at 1469 Boston Post Road stunned patrons when it posted it plans to close its business. The reasons include the new Total Wines & Mooe store, which opened last week.

“Dear long-time loyal Loading Dock Wine & Spirits customers. With the opening of Total Wines & More last week along with the ever changing CT. Liquor laws favoring large non-family owned businesses Beverly and I have made the very difficult decision to close the store. After all, there is only so much of the pie that can be truly divided up between all the liquor stores in Milford. Thus, we feel we can no longer run a viable business in the future.

Our landlord has the property for sale and we have the opportunity to opt out of our lease. Beverly and I would like to thank the many longtime customers of the store that we have come to know personally over the year. This is the hardest part of closing not seeing you every day. The liquor industry in Connecticut is changing and stores like ours will soon become the exception not the norm. We thank you for the support over the past 14 year.”

Tom & Beverly

More than 60 customers have commented on the news, which you can read here.