I hope this changes, this system is so archaic.

I went Googling and NJ posts an excel spreadsheet of all of the liquor license holders in the state. I was surprised to see that in my township, we have an inactive consumption license which is owned by the same person who has a distribution license for the only liquor store in our township. They've been holding the retail consumption license hostage since 2013, presumably to force people to their liquor store. That feels wrong to me.