Grocery and Convenience stores are battling to have the opportunity to sell full strength beer, wine and liquor. Now leaders of the effort have confirmed to Hays Post that they want to take hard liquor out of the proposal.

Hays Liquor storeowner Jim Steinert told Hays Post, “I figured we were going to hear that but I see the same problems as with the other proposal. I have no problem with full strength beer but I don’t want to give them wine sales. My compromise would have been to give them full strength beer and not let them come back to change the law for 20 years.”

The organization known as Uncork Kansas says they made the decision to take hard liquor from the proposal after a recent survey indicated much stronger support for changing the laws on beer and wine but not hard liquor.

A House committee will vote on the measure this week.