Also in 2019, 31-year-old Michelle Trone, who is David Trone's daughter, applied to open a 30,000 square foot store in Queens, New York, saying it would be an independent store, though using the trade name "Total Wine & More". In 2017, the New York State Liquor Authority rejected the company's application for a 21,000-square-foot store near White Plains, New York, and in September 2019, a New York Supreme Court justice blocked the company's plan for a megastore in Hartsdale, in Westchester County, deeming it "inappropriate for the region" the company is appealing that decision. The company has only one store in the state of New York. Total Wine sued the state's regulators to overturn the suspensions and won on the basis that the final cost of the liquor being less than that shown on the initial invoices. The same year, Total Wine was served with multi-day license suspensions by the Massachusetts Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission for selling liquor below its costs – a loss leader pricing strategy not allowed in some states. In August 2016, the company agreed to stop selling alcohol in Connecticut below the state minimum prices, and paid a $37,500 fine. Total Wine entered Florida in 2005, and then California and Arizona in 2007. The Trones acquired D.C.-area chain Total Beverage in 1998, adopting and modifying that company's moniker for their business. Liquor World grew steadily through the 1990s, expanding down the east coast. In 1991 brothers David and Robert Trone founded Liquor World as a small, independent store in Claymont, Delaware, which was followed with a second store in Milltown, Delaware. ![]() ![]() In 1985, Trone and family members opened stores in the Pittsburgh area known as Beer and Pop Warehouse and later Beer World, though legal difficulties in Pennsylvania led them to leave the state. A Total Wine & More outlet in Springfield, Virginia
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