This is just as stupid and ill-thought out as the "dry counties" we have here in Texas-people just drive over to the liquor store right across the county line to spend their money-and the "dry county" doesn't get a penny of the tax revenue from the sales.
When we moved to North Carolina, and bought a house, we did not realize that we were now living in a 'dry' county...no problem for us, my hubby was military, always bought his beer on post...and people who lived in our neighborhood, just drove down main road, for a few minutes, and were in another county, where they could buy their drinks...
At this time(late 70s), they also had stupid 'blue-laws', where one could not even buy a broom, or a hammer on Sunday, because buying that suggested that you might want to work on a Sunday, and the 'blue-law', was in place to enforce religious constraints on working on the sabbath...
We left there in 1983...I wonder if those conditions still exist there today...