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Need Liquor Delivered Now? The Startup World's Got You Covered
Alcohol delivery startups grow by playing nice with the industry
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Nick Rellas recalls sending a text around 3 a.m. on March 4, 2012. Like lots of college guys, the Boston College senior was thinking about beer. “Why can’t you get alcohol delivered like you can an Uber car?” he texted a friend, who replied, “Because it’s illegal.” That exchange prompted Rellas’s first all-nighter with Massachusetts’ liquor laws.