PA Fine Wine And Spirits Expands Services Amid Coronavirus

PENNSYLVANIA — Pennsylvania is again expanding access to its liquor stores amid the coronavirus pandemic, including reopening retail sales for licensed businesses and expanding curbside pickup.

Retail orders for licensed businesses will now be filled at the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board's 13 licensee centers and 580 of its Fine Wine and Spirits Stores.

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The news comes as the state announced that 24 counties would begin the "yellow" phase of reopening May 8. Liquor stores will change protocols and relax restrictions in counties as they move from phase to phase.

The state also announced that they will increase the limit on maximum orders from six bottles to 12 bottles per order. Stores are still accepting just one order per caller a day.

Curbside pickup has now exapnded to 14 more locations, bringing the total number of stores offering pickup to 580 out of the state's 584 stores. A full list of stores offering pickup is available here.

The brick and mortar stores were closed back on March 17. More information on when stores in "yellow" counties might reopen is expected at some point after May 8, officials said.

The first 50 to 100 orders placed online each day will be accepted. Access to FineWineAndGoodSpirits.com will remain randomized in an effort to prevent high traffic from overwhelming the page, officials said. Only one order per address will be fulfilled per day.

Since the state reopened curbside sales on April 20, there have been 213,433 orders leading to $17.41 million in revenue, according to preliminary figures from the state calculated through April 30. Online sales, meanwhile, for the month of April, included 116,680 orders totaling $11.14 million.

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