A sign in a Kroger supermarket in Nashville urges shoppers to sign up for a group urging wine sales in grocery stores.Proponents of Tennessee grocery stores being able to sell wine say they’re gearing up for the Nov. 4 election where voters in Chattanooga, Signal Mountain and dozens of other communities will decide the issue on local referendums.
The effort will include paid media and in-store displays encouraging voters to say yes, said Suzie Alcorn, campaign manager of the Red, White and Food effort.
“We are in the final stage to get wine in retail food stores,” she said. “This summer, we collected more than 262,247 signatures, which led to 78 communities having the wine question on the November ballot.”
Early voting begins Wednesday in the election.
Emphasizing that the fight to get wine in Tennessee grocery stores isn’t won, representatives from Bi-Lo and Publix supermarkets made stops in Chattanooga on Thursday to urge voters to go to the polls.