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# NC Grocers to Sell Premixed Cocktails Under Bill OK'd by NC House
- URL: https://bevnews.net/nc-grocers-to-sell-premixed-cocktails-under-bill-okd-by-nc-house/
- Published: 2026-06-21T19:19:30.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-21T19:19:30.000Z
- Author: Joel Whitaker

North Carolina grocery stores wpuld be able to sell premixed cocktails such as Cutwaters, High Noon, Surfside and canned vodka sodas under a bill approved by the North Carolina House of Representatives.

As long as the drinks contain no ,more than 9.9% alcohol by volume, they could be sold the same way beer and wine are sold, rather than being restricted to state-run ABC stores.

“If you took Food Lion, Harris Teeter and Lowes Foods, that’s just three grocery store chains. That alone represents about 1,500 locations versus our 450 \[ABC stores\],”Rep. Bryan Cohn told The Daily Tar Heel 

Concerns have been raised by local ABC boards about how the [law](https://www.the-sun.com/topic/law/?ref=bevnews.net) could impact revenue coming from ABC stores in the state.

A change to on-premise regulations permit price changes for happy hour, and another change would permit a person to have to two cocktails at one time. Under current low, a person at a wedding, for instance, can order two beers or two wines or a whiskey and a beer at the same time, but cannot order two whiskies or a whiskey and a vodka at the same times.

Another change would permit on-premise operators to order liquor from other ABC stores if their supply runs out.