Supplies of certain products have run low in Alaska because of people stocking up in the wake of coronavirus concerns. In Bristol Bay, several grocery stores are preparing to offset the wave of product shortages in the region.
"Alaska Commercial Company"
Mark Begich, frustrated by rural Alaska’s exorbitant prices, is opening a grocery store in Utqiaġvik
Begich says his company, Stuaqpak Inc., will offer lower prices and better products, and be more accountable to residents than the Canadian corporation that ran the store previously.
ABC Board will decide the owner of Bethel’s final liquor license
The final liquor license that will be granted to a Bethel business is being sought by three businesses. Which one gets it could be left up to chance.
AC Quickstop begins plans for Bethel liquor store
“We have stores in Nome. We have a liquor store in McGrath, Alaska. We have a store in King Salmon. So we understand the sensitivity in the community,” said the general manager of the business with one of Bethel’s two liquor licenses.
Bethel City Council votes to protest liquor licenses
It’s been four decades since Bethel had a liquor store, and for now, that will continue. The City Council voted Tuesday to protest two liquor store license applications.