2018 Tennessee Code
Title 57 - Intoxicating Liquors
Chapter 3 - Local Option--Traffic in Intoxicating Liquors
Part 8 - Sale of Wine in Retail Food Stores
§ 57-3-815. Wholesaler, manufacturer, winery, or nonresident seller's permit holder prohibited from providing certain services to licensee -- Delivery of wine -- Merchandising assistance.
(a) No wholesaler licensed under § 57-3-203 and no manufacturer, winery, nonresident seller's permit holder or any employee, agent, representative or salesperson employed by or representing any such wholesaler, manufacturer, winery or nonresident seller's permit holder shall provide any services to or for the benefit of a retail food store wine licensee including, but not limited to, services involving shelving, dressing, displaying, or setting inventory owned or purchased by the retail food store licensee. A wholesaler may deliver wine to the premises of a retail food store wine licensee any time at which the wholesaler and the retail food store wine licensee's manager mutually agree in accordance with the ordinary and customary practices of the two industries, regardless of whether the retail food store wine licensee is open to the public, and may deliver wine to a location upon the licensed premises as directed by the retail food store wine licensee.
(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), a wholesaler, including the wholesaler's agents, servants, or employees, may provide merchandising assistance to a retail food store wine licensee pursuant to this subsection (b). Wholesalers may build and stock wholesaler displays of wine on the premises of a retail food store wine licensee. Wholesaler displays must not be part of the retail food store's regular shelving. Wholesalers may replenish wholesaler displays for a maximum period of one (1) month after the initial display has been installed. Wholesalers shall not price the wholesaler displays and shall not provide any other services or things of value to the retail food store wine licensee.
