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Impending Allston Trader Joe's gets right to stock Two-Buck Chuck, beer

The Boston Licensing Board voted yesterday to grant a beer-and-wine license to the Trader Joe's under construction on North Harvard Street at Western Avenue in Allston.

At a hearing on Wednesday, the store's attorney explained the public need for a license by saying that while Allston has liquor stores, "there are none like Trader Joe's," in which discerning shoppers can pair Trader Joe's food with its largely private label lines of beers and wines. He said the store won't sell Budweiser, Miller, Coors, nips, half pints or kegs.

The store will be located in the Continuum, the apartment complex that is one of Harvard's first major efforts to turn the once somnolent Barry's Corner into a new Harvard Square.

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In both the Peabody and Memorial Drive - Cambridge stores, where they sell beer and wine, the Charles Shaw wines are selling for $2.99/bottle. Hence the name Three Buck Chuck.

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The CS Cabernet is $3.99/bottle.

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Usually around $4.50. Throw some frozen peaches in it on a summer afternoon for a real treat - you can do that with plonk.

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Peachy Plonk

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There's already a TJ's within walking distance of that location, right across the river. Where's our JP TJ's?

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Does not make a walkable grocery store anytime between November and April.

We have been yearning for a grocery store that DOES NOT have flies in the onions (even in the winter thank you) for at least 20 years.

But that's just me.

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Especially since Cambridge Street sidewalks aren't shoveled, so it has become even more horrific to walk through the Allston I-90 interchange

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You got our Harvest cooperative that I used to go to all the time so stop complaining.

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But this license doesn't restrict them to selling only private stock beer and wine does it? They normally have plenty of other labels, I wouldn't call it largely private stock..or am I not recognizing it right?

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They could sell Miller if they want to. Apologies if I made it sound like they were just going to sell their own stuff and that Charles Taylor stuff. The lawyer went on and on about the Trader Joe's "experience" and how they wouldn't just be another packie, but, in the end, no, the licensing board does not set limits on which specific brands a store can or can't carry.

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Yet the Cambridge License Commission supposedly wants to hear about it whenever a restaurant changes its menu.

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If this were about Cambridge ...

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