In the USSR the state food stores shelves might be bare, but the state liquor stores were always stocked to the ceiling with vodka.
Soviet rulers knew what they were doing.
Are liquor prices going up? I don’t think so.
That idiot governor in Pennsylvania closed all the state liquor stores. He should have put up Soviet style posters exhorting “Safety! Discipline! Temperance, comrades!”
Then the lockdown was quietly withdrawn. Hmm....
Same reason your kids schools and once working class white towns are flooded with heroin.