Spanish Fork considers Sunday beer sales

SPANISH FORK — City leaders took a major step toward legalizing Sunday beer sales on Tuesday. The City Council instructed City Attorney Junior Baker to draw up an ordinance allowing the sales.

The ordinance would take effect only if the council approves it.

Mark Jarris, a Spanish Fork store owners, says he loses Sunday business because of the city ordinance banning beer sales on Sunday.

Albertsons, the only Spanish Fork grocery store open on Sundays, averages 73 beer sales a day, assistant grocery manager Kari Wessman said.

Using that figure, the store loses $1,482 every Sunday they cannot sell beer.

They also lose any sales of snacks that beer buyers would purchase.

Annually, the loss is more than $77,000, she said.

She presented a petition to the council signed by nine convenience store owners and Albertsons asking that they be allowed to sell beer on Sundays.