Privatize Pennsylvania liquor sales?

Amy Worden has an article in The Philadelphia Inquirer about yet-another attempt to kill the state liquor stores:

Like Groundhog Day, the move to privatize state liquor stores in Pennsylvania is back again. House Majority Leader Dave Reed (a Republican from Indiana) said that lawmakers would introduce a bill, similar to one that passed in 2013, to sell off the six hundred State Stores, and that the GOP-led House would pass it this month.
Speaking to reporters in Harrisburg, Reed said it makes sense to consider a revenue option that could bring in a billion dollars in license fees at a time when the state is facing a two-billion-dollar budget deficit. "I see this as a starting point," Reed said. "It took us eighty years to pass a liquor privatization bill through the House. We have different members and a different governor."
A similar bill, sponsored by then-Majority Leader Mike Turzai (a Republican from Allegheny), passed largely along party lines last session with the support of Governor Tom Corbett in the GOP-controlled House, but was opposed by the unions and died in the Senate when no compromise was reached.
This session there is new Republican leadership in the Senate, but also a Democratic governor who is not on board with an outright sale of the stores.
"Governor Wolf supports modernization of the state's liquor stores, which can produce new revenue that can be used to fund vital programs while improving options for consumers and making sales more convenient," his spokesman, Jeff Sheridan, said.
Among the changes Wolf suggests are removal of limits on Sunday sales, ensuring prices are competitive, opening small State Stores inside retail outlets such as supermarkets, and direct shipment of wine and spirits.
The bill, to be introduced by Turzai, who is now House speaker, calls for twelve hundred liquor licenses statewide, available first to beer distributors, that would create one-stop shops for beer, wine, and spirits. Grocery stores would have to have seating areas and could sell only wine unless they applied for a special license to also sell beer.
The bill would not immediately shut down the State Stores but rather phase them out, while allowing some stores to remain open in rural areas.

Rico says it's an outcome devoutly to be wished...