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Friday, June 1, 2012

The day liquor went private and prices stumped the public

Wei Tan, center, and his wife, Xue Chen, left, check out bottles of vodka at the Costco in Seattle during the first day of privatized liquor sales in Washington state Friday when hundreds of supermarkets, drugstores and mass merchants jumped into the business.