A Liquor Store for the Midway Target?

By Mecca Bos Thu., Nov. 13 2014 at 2:00 PM

Categories: News

In an effort to shorten your errands list by one all-important stop, Target is proposing a liquor store inside its Midway store in St. Paul.

But before you get excited about grabbing a handle of gin along with the Charmin and the Aquafresh, Target will have to go through a public approval process as well as determine whether it's too close to existing liquor stores in the area -- namely, Big Top Liquor at Snelling and University (city ordinances say liquor stores must be at least a half mile from one another).

The majority of Target stores across the country have liquor stores, but Minnesota only recently added its first, at the Otsego SuperTarget.

If the proposal passes, the liquor store will have a separate entrance from the rest of the store and would be located where the snack bar area currently sits.

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Target Headquarters

1000 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN

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Matt Connell

Liquor stores are some of the few small businesses left.

James Perovich

Whoa where is this.

Erin Munn

Targets down here in Dallas sell beer and wine.

Christopher Ray Hunnicutt

I'm sure the savings will be impeccable.

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I just got back from SF and stopped in at the "City Target." It had an awesome beer and wine collection and the prices were great. Several brands were sold out due to demand.

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All I can say is "wow." If you don't like the neighborhood don't go there and move to the burbs.

Robin Vetsch Martian

That's prejudice, they won't sell cigarettes but they'll sell booze...smh

Jim Hall

Not true, the Target in Lakeville sells liquor as well as Eden Prairie.

Angela At Signarama

I would hope that it would run Bigtop out of business. That entire corner is just disgusting. Run them out of their space and bulldoze the place. The bus stop across the street is dangerous and more than once I've actually seen people passed out in that neighborhood. Just gross.