Word: scali
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...Scali said the shrinking number of stores licensed to sell alcohol in the city and the relative lack of large local competitors mean that proportionally fewer Cambridge stores may have interest in staying open for the extra day--traditionally considered one of the slowest sales days of the week...
...Scali said that when the state legislature repealed a similar regulation--known as the "cordials law"--about five years ago, only a handful of local businesses expressed an interest in gaining the right to serve alcoholic beverages before noon on Sunday. That lack of interest encouraged the Commission not to repeal the restriction...
...State law currently permits liquor stores to stay open on the six Sundays between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day. But even then, Scali said, the extra business has not been spectacular...
...evidence we have seen...is that they're not really busy on the Sundays during the holidays," Scali said...
...Still, Scali said he thought Cambridge's "active neighborhood groups" would likely be against any effort to expand the sale of alcohol...