Posted on 09/20/2015 12:11:15 PM PDT by Lorianne
Lived in Lincoln, Maine for many years. Grocery store, Walmart and gas station all sold beer, wine, and liquor...even on Sundays. As far as I know, the world did not end.
Wait a minute! You know of a decent bottle of wine for six dollars?
Same in CA. Nice to buy your booze along with your groceries.
In Indiana you can’t buy booze on Sunday, and no store within 1,000 feet of a church or school can sell it at all.
You shouldn’t be drinking $2.99 wine unless you live on skid row.
I go to California to visit my dad once a year. Every year I have gone, I went to the local grocery store and marveled at the liquor aisle. Until this year. This year all of the liquor is locked up in a metal cage and you have to pay for it before they will give it to you. Demographics change.
You can buy booze on Sunday in Colorado.
Yea, it depends on the location of the store.
Two Buck Chuck ($2.99/bottle) from Trader Joe's is decent table wine.
Hell, we even sell beer at damn' near every gas station you can find.
My last trip to Texas was back in the mid 90's and I couldn't believe how hard it was to buy beer (compared to Illinois anyway.)
The Kansas Legislature have been working for two years to change the law to allow food markets sell distilled spirits (liquor, booze)and wine. Currently they can only sell reduced strength beer.
In our city, all of the supermarkets are owned by out of state corporations, including Wal Mart. All of the liquor stores are locally owned, in fact these liquor stores are among a few locally owned retail stores still remaining. The liquor laws are the only reason that they exist, and if the law is changed. They will be gone very soon.
From what I have seen in other states, only large cities and their nearby suburbs have the wide selection of wine, craft beer, and premium whiskies that we currently enjoy. Cities like our size, have the low end version of the national supermarket chains and they stock a very limited range of brands and selections. Cheap beer, cheap wine, cheap bourbon, gin, vodka.
Many of the craft brewers and craft distillers will be driven out of business by the Wal Mart and Supermarket chain stocking and pricing tactics. The big loser in this trend is the customer with the winners being the politicians and the chains.
Yes I do.
The other thing I remember was something stupid like paying $5 or $10 at a local bar just to drink. It was some sort of "club permit" or something like that? I encountered that in several different bars in/around Dallas.
Not sure my memory's 100% on what it was called ("club permit") but without paying it, you couldn't order a drink.
The year was 1994/1995.
That’s what I thought until I discovered this wine at that ridiculous price.
It’s the “private club” exception to local prohibitions against liquor-by-the-drink. If you buy a membership to the establishment’s “private club, “ thus becoming a “member” of said club, the club can serve you alcohol. That’s another weird thing they have in North Texas that we in South Texas don’t have to deal with. In Houston, if you want a drink, you can walk into a bar a buy a drink.
I've been to Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Fort Worth. All those visits were work related. The only two places I'd gone out for a drink after work were in Dallas and then in Fort Worth (Billy Bob's.)
I really don't recall if I had to pay the "club membership" at Billy Bob's. I do remember there being a very high number of beautiful Texas girls there! :-)
Unless it has changed since I left, all private sales stores can sell booze, but must be closed on Sunday. You can buy alcohol in restaurants. (Again, the DUI thing?)
What's peculiar is that you can buy beer in grocery stores, but it cannot be sold cold.
Only the private stores can sell it cold.
In Maryland, there used to be no Sunday sales, and the liquor bottles had to be covered up with a locking tarp.
Guess they didn't want anyone to be tempted by the demon alcohol by actually seeing it.
Again, no idea if these laws have changed.
One GREAT thing about WA state is that the state stores have closed, and you can buy all the booze you want from private dealers like Total Wine or Costco. 7 days a week.
In Alaska, any place can sell alcohol, but there has to be a separate entrance for the area where alcohol is located. In Arizona, everything is available in any part of the store. In a military BX or PX, alcohol is available in any part of the store, regardless of local law.
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