The rule takes effect June 29. It replaces a temporary rule that has allowed grocers to make limited amounts of same-day beer and wine deliveries since January.

Before 2008, grocers were only allowed to deliver beer and wine ordered the previous day.

The rule change does not apply to hard liquor, which must be bought in state-operated liquor stores.

Thursday's 5-0 vote drew immediate criticism from Oregon Partnership, a nonprofit that promotes drug and alcohol awareness. The group's president, Judy Cushing, said the change provides Oregon teens with another avenue to get alcohol.

"If our underage drinking wasn't at the level it is, maybe we wouldn't be so concerned," she said.

Tom Erwin, the commission's government affairs director, said safety is an important part of the OLCC's mission: "We certainly don't want to create an environment where (more underage drinking) occurs."

Dan Floyd, a lobbyist for Safeway, which pushed for the rule change, said the chain has been making home deliveries of beer and wine for seven years without any problems. Safeway drivers are told to take down the driver's license number of the buyer, he said, and the chain does not sell to people who are younger than 21 or visibly intoxicated.

Although the commission has been considering the rule change for months, OLCC officials said it wasn't until Wednesday that Safeway lobbyist Gary Oxley and attorney Mark Whitlow proposed adding the idea of allowing unlimited beer and wine deliveries.

"It is really odd that they allowed this change to unlimited amounts at the last minute," Cushing said.