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Another winter, and another threat from Cheng-san Chen (owner of Louie’s Superette) to close his convenience store. Last year, following the Cambridge Licensing Commission’s decision to revoke Chen’s license in the wake of his sale of alcohol to minors, Chen painted a dire picture of his store’s finances and threatened to retire early and shut down his store—unless the punishment levied on him was not too severe...
This year is no different. Chen claims his store has lost $150,000 of revenue during this year alone, making retirement a foregone conclusion—unless students will sign a petition and enable him to sell alcohol on Sundays once again. So unless we the students take an active interest in saving Louie’s now, the store may go the way of Budweiser...
...Louie’s had never been able to sell liquor on Sundays before, why would a prohibition now hurt business? When he could not sell alcohol on Sunday, Chen reasons, “students would buy alcohol on Saturday and save it for Sunday. Now they can buy it on Sunday, so they don’t show up on Saturdays anymore...
Since he was caught selling alcohol to minors, Chen says he has taken serious precautions to make sure that it never happens again. And he’s not lying—at least when FM was present. He refused to sell beer to a customer who had a Massachusetts driver’s license saying he was 23 but no backup. The man stormed away angrily with a terse “fuck...
...permit that allows the store to sell alcohol on Sundays, probably I think it’s going to turn back to normal,” he says. “But if I don’t get the permit…” He trails off. It’s just too painful to keep going...