A seat at the table
Corporate chains and their paid lobbyists never miss an opportunity to increase their profits at your expense. The RLAO is how independently owned package stores show up with the same force — and a better argument.
Retail Liquor Association of Oklahoma
The statewide voice for independently owned package stores.
Corporate chains and their paid lobbyists never miss an opportunity to increase their profits at your expense. The RLAO is how Oklahoma retailers show up with the same force — and a better argument.
Protecting Oklahomans
We exist so Main Street stores are not outgunned at the Capitol.
The RLAO is an industry group formed to give Oklahoma’s individually owned retail package stores a voice at the highest levels of state and federal government. We work with lawmakers and allied groups to craft laws that serve both the package store and the Oklahoma consumer.
Our purpose is to represent the thousands of men and women who invest their time and money into providing quality alcoholic beverages to their neighborhoods — while supporting rules that enhance public health and safety.
- 600+
- Independent package stores we stand with
- 77
- Counties. One voice at the Capitol.
- 1982
- Year Oklahoma retailers organized
- Every session
- Bills watched, amendments fought, calls made
What membership buys
Not a club. The organized defense independent stores have left.
Intelligence, not rumor
Pending bills, ABLE actions, distributor changes, and market moves land in members’ inboxes before they land on the sales floor. Hope is not a strategy. Information is.
Public safety, on purpose
We support laws that balance convenience with the realities of alcohol retail: trained clerks, ID checks, and store owners who live in the towns they serve.
From the Capitol
Current issues worth more than a Facebook post.
We believe in a balance of convenience and public safety, and we support legislation that takes both seriously. The groups trying to reshape Oklahoma alcohol law are organized, funded, and active. So are we.
All current issues- Standing priorityKeep spirits in package stores
Grocery and convenience stores already sell beer and wine. Every session, well-funded interests test the line on distilled spirits. Holding that line is why the RLAO exists.
- 2026 sessionLaws that let independents compete
Out-of-state companies are constantly trying to influence our laws to make it easier for them to run their business model, without regard to Oklahoma-owned businesses or public safety. We are the only entity standing in their way.
- ActiveFair, consistent ABLE enforcement
Independents follow the book. They need the ABLE Commission to apply the same book to everyone — including high-volume operators who treat the rules as optional.
Membership
If you own a liquor store in Oklahoma, you should be in the RLAO.
Every bill that threatens your hours, your margins, or your license has someone paid to sit in the room. Membership is how you sit there too.
Membership is $500 a year, or $42 a month.
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Pending bills. ABLE actions. Market changes.
Sign up for the latest on anything that might hit the alcohol business in Oklahoma. Members get the full briefings; this list is the public pulse.
Questions in the meantime? Write info@rlao.org.