Texas does not allow distillers to ship their liquor directly from the distillery to consumers. Instead, through a three-tier system, distillers must Is it legal in Texas to ship liquor directly to consumers? sell their liquor through distributors. Although the Texas legislature recently granted distillers the right to sell to consumers at the distillery for on-site and off-site consumption, efforts to legalize direct-to-consumer shipping have failed.
Almost every state in the US (including Texas)
allows direct-to-consumer (DtC) wine shipping thanks to a concerted lobbying effort by the wine industry in every state. Distilleries have not received the same benefits. As of September 2021, only six states and Washington, D.C., allow distilleries to ship DtC. Texas is not one of them.
Because of the three-tier system
Distillers are generally prohibited from selling directly to Texas consumers. There are limited exceptions for on-premises and carryout sales under Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code Section 14.05, but the customer must be physically present on the permit holder’s premises, the product must be delivered to the customer during the visit, and the customer cannot make the purchase as an agent of another. This effectively prohibits distillers from delivering products to customers’ homes.
During the next legislative
In the 2021 session, Senator Schwertner proposed a bill (SB 757) that would allow a distilling and rectifying license holder to directly ship their liquor to Texas consumers. The bill failed to gain traction and died in committee without receiving a hearing. It typically takes two or more sessions for a bill to gain enough support to pass. The Texas Legislature recently passed related changes to the Alcoholic Beverage Code (namely, allowing beer, wine, and mixed drinks to be included in restaurant delivery and pickup orders).
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If our distillery cannot
deliver products directly to consumers, how can we sell our spirits in Texas?Through a distributor/wholesaler. Typically, you will need to go through a distributor/wholesaler. Texas regulates Survey Results: Why Home Buyers Choose Secondary Finance Mortgages the distribution of alcohol through three independent tiers: distillers, distributors/wholesalers, and retailers. Because the tiers must operate independently of each other, distillers are generally prohibited from selling their products directly to consumers—instead, with some limited exceptions discussed below, a distiller must sell its products through a distributor/wholesaler.
On-site and takeaway sales at the distillery.
A distiller may sell a limited amount of product to customers at the distillery for on-site and off-site consumption. On-site sales are limited to 3,000 gallons per year. To-go sales are limited to two 750 ml bottles per customer per month, with a volume cap of 3,500 gallons per year for all to-go sales. [1] A bill proposed during the 2021 legislative session would have increased the limit from two to four bottles while maintaining the gallon volume cap. It passed the Senate but failed to pass the House.
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effective. Unfortunately, breaking up with a subscription service can often be difficult. The Federal Trade Commission recently announced that it is “strengthening enforcement efforts” against companies that make it difficult for consumers to cancel a subscription service. Federal law requires online merchants to provide “easy mechanisms” for consumers to cancel a subscription service. Several states have passed similar laws, but Texas has not.
Subscription business in general
grew more than 300% from 2012 to 2018, about five times faster than the revenue of the S&P 500. The main problem subscription companies face is churn—consumers “quickly abandon services that don’t provide a superior end-to-end experience.”
Some companies use shady methods,
to discourage cancellations, such as requiring consumers to call to cancel, keeping them on hold for long periods of time, and having representatives use multi-part sales scripts to hold. These shady practices may be illegal, depending on the circumstances and applicable law. Federal law, the Restoring Online Shopper Confidence Act (“ROSCA”) (15 U.S.C. §§ 8401-8405), requires online merchants to “provide[] simple mechanisms for a consumer to stop recurring charges.
In October 2021, the FTC published
issued a new ROSCA enforcement policy statement requiring companies to “provide cancellation mechanisms that are at least as easy to use as the method the consumer originally used to purchase the product or service.” The FTC explains:
[Sellers] must not subject consumers to offers or similar attempts to preserve a negative option agreement that impose unreasonable delays on consumers’ efforts to cancel. . . . n. G kind. Sellers must provide their cancellation mechanisms through at least the same medium (e.g., a website or mobile application) that the consumer used to agree to the negative option feature. . . . If the seller also provides the ability to cancel by telephone, the seller must provide, at a minimum, a telephone number and answer all calls. Ensure that calls are not longer or otherwise more burdensome. than the telephone call the consumer used to agree to the negative option feature.
A policy statement is not a law but rather a statement of the Federal Trade Commission’s current views on the application of relevant laws and regulations.
The FTC also announced that it was “strengthening
enforcement actions” against companies that “deceive or lure consumers” into subscription services. “Firms that use dark patterns and other dirty tricks should take notice,” said Samuel Levin, director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection.
“Tricks and Traps” can have
huge financial pos. G consequences: In 2020, a company providing online education services for children agreed to pay $10 million and change its marketing and billing policies with negative options to settle FTC allegations that it misrepresented its cancellations and failed to disclose important information to consumers, leading to tens of thousands of people being renewed and charged for memberships without proper consent.