From Deseret News archives:
Macey's in Spanish Fork gets beer sales deal
The City Council opted on Tuesday to shorten the store's punishment for two instances of selling beer to minors during police stings based on a change in city ordinance eliminating a mandatory six-month beer license suspension and the store's pro-active program to train its employees regarding beer sales.
A six-month suspension could have cost the store $250,000 in revenues, according to Bill Summers, the store manager.
The two violations, one inadvertent and the other purposeful, occurred in May and July. Under a city ordinance in effect at the time, stores accruing two violations within a one-year period were subject to a mandatory six-month suspension of their beer license. Tuesday's decision came in response to an appeal filed by Macey's.
The City Council was in the process of reworking the ordinance to make the suspension discretionary, with six-months being the maximum penalty, at the time the sales occurred.
Council members who went behind closed doors to consider their options before meting out the penalty to Macey's said they wanted to make sure the message was clear to other vendors that the city takes violations of the ordinance seriously. Included in the penalty that will keep beer off the shelves from Oct. 1 to Oct. 17 (the store is closed on Sundays so they are not included in the 14-day suspension) was a $500 fine.
Macey's extensive training program was a factor in the decision. Council members said it showed the store was making a major effort to prevent sales to minors. Not only are clerks put through county training to avoid selling to minors, the store has its own extensive training program, said David Davis, an attorney representing Macey's at the meeting.
"What makes the difference (in our decision) is the training," Councilman Everett Kelepolo said. "The company has gone to extensive lengths."
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