All Philadelphia Fine Wine & Good Spirits stores, as well as one across the border in Cheltenham Township, will be closed Wednesday after at least 18 locations were broken into on Tuesday night. …
“Fortunately, no employees were hurt, although some were understandably shaken,” Shawn M. Kelly, press secretary for the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, said Wednesday in a statement.
The decision to temporarily close four dozen Fine Wine & Good Spirits locations across the city was made, Kelly said, “in the interest of employee safety and while we assess the damage and loss that occurred.”
[These stores are state-owned, apparently. They can afford the losses, perhaps, but one has to wonder for how long. It’s telling that the PLCB is closing *all* of its Philly-area locations and not just those that got looted. — Ed]
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