Tennessee regulators expect 270 stores across the state to be among the first wave of supermarkets to sell wine under a new state law going into effect in July 2016.
Keith Bell of the state Alcoholic Beverage Commission told lawmakers that those first stores include 109 in Middle Tennessee, 105 in Chattanooga and Knoxville regions and 56 in West Tennessee.
Bell said neither his agency nor the alcohol industry would be prepared if lawmakers decided to move up the date of supermarket wine sales to this July.