Current Issues
The RLAO works with members of the legislature to modernize Oklahoma’s alcohol laws — with a balance of convenience and public safety. Below is what we are watching, fighting, and refusing to give away.
Oklahoma law is explicit: alcoholic beverages shall not be sold at retail for less than a six-percent markup. That floor exists so a chain cannot use alcohol as a loss-leader against a family store that actually has to make payroll on the category. The RLAO watches attempts to weaken, waive, or ignore it — including credit-surcharge and promotional schemes that launder a discount the statute forbids.
Watching
It is only by engaging the process that small-business owners counteract the corporate interests who are constantly trying to grow at the expense of hard-working Oklahomans. Put in your address. The first name is your senator; the next is your House member.
Find my legislatorLicensing, hours, tastings, and the six-percent markup live in Title 37A and are enforced by ABLE. When the Commission drifts, members hear it from us first.
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