Rushing Liquor

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About

In business since 1987 at the Voltaire-and-Worden corner near the OB-to-Sunset Cliffs neighborhood transition, Rushing Liquor operates an independent neighborhood liquor store running beer, wine, spirits, and lottery scratchers from a single Voltaire Street storefront. The convenience-and-liquor combined inventory mirrors the format run by corridor peer Newport Farms Market & Liquor down the strip on Newport, both operating as one-stop neighborhood beverage stores rather than dedicated craft-beer specialists. The store carries a standard category mix of domestic and import beer, wine, spirits, lottery products, sodas, ice, and convenience-grocery snacks across the single-storefront floor plan. The neighborhood-convenience model serves the 'one-bottle-of-wine plus a six-pack' run rather than the bistro-and-tasting format operated up the corridor at The 3rd Corner Wine Shop & Bistro on Bacon Street. Lottery-ticket sales — both scratchers and California lottery draw games — represent the store's highest-margin transactional product after spirits, anchoring the regular foot-traffic pattern characteristic of a neighborhood liquor counter.