ORLANDO, Fla. — Customers may soon be able to have a happy hour while they shop at Target.
The retail chain is working to serve alcohol in its stores.
"That is crazy," said Target customer Craig Rumbaugh.
The bar will be fully-stocked with liquor.
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"I don't know that it is really necessary," said Target customer Samantha Maretti.
The company plans to start at a smaller, more "city-friendly" type of Target store in Chicago.
Target already sells liquor for shoppers to take home, but this would be the first "consumption on premises" liquor license for Target.
Some customers said the bar would not bother them, but others did not like the idea.
"It is one thing to get your coffee lattes, or what have you, [but] to get a drink and then go shopping?" said Maretti.
In Florida, the law states that liquor must be sold in a separate location from a supermarket. Sarasota-area State Rep. Greg Steube is trying to change that law with House Bill 107; That bill died during this year's spring session, but if it had passed, it would have allowed stores, like Target, to sell liquor where you shop.
"Why would you want alcohol in a place that has family oriented stuff? It's kind of silly," said Rumbaugh.
Some customers think that could cause a bigger problem.
"It's harder to control the underage drinking if you have got a wider variety of people," said Maretti.
Sheriff Jerry Demings said he is against the sale of liquor in supermarkets. He said it was an unnecessary expansion of alcohol that could increase underage drinking.
The concept is scheduled to open this fall.
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