Actually, you can’t buy beer in a State Store - just liquor and wine.
You buy beer either by the case at a “distributor”, or by the 6 pack at a restaurant/bar or 6 pack shop.
Wegmans and Sheetz are pushing the envelope with selling beer in their stores because they argue that they offer sit down food, thus they’re a restaurant.
You buy beer either by the case at a “distributor”, or by the 6 pack at a restaurant/bar or 6 pack shop.
Wegmans and Sheetz are pushing the envelope with selling beer in their stores because they argue that they offer sit down food, thus they’re a restaurant.
Correct but FWIW, it seems to me that so called 6 pack or “bottle” shops are few and far between at least here in south central PA. If there are any in York and Lancaster counties they must be a closely guarded secret, not allowed to advertize or even put up a sign saying they sell beer. Some of the beer distributors, who can only sell by the case, do advertize to a limited extent but nothing like what liquor stores in Maryland do.
But there is a Giant grocery store near me that was recently remodeled to add a “café” so they could sell 6 packs of beer and hard cider, etc., I saw a sign that even said you can “mix and match” your 6 packs, but then there is a separate entrance and check out and you have to purchase that separately from your groceries and can’t even take the beer you purchased into the rest of the grocery store (you know it might jump out and molest some kid in the cereal aisle – probably the very type of thing that have killed all those poor little children in NC / s). I think there might be a few, very few others along with Weis that also have this. And most Wegman’s I’ve been to actually are almost like restaurants, many of them bigger than most restaurants. There is a pizza shop, ironically located right next door to a LCB Wine and Sprit shop that sells beer by the bottle or the 6 pack but when I was in there one day to pick up a pizza, I checked out the selection which was pretty pitiful and the prices which were outrageous.
I don’t see any problem with Sheetz and Wegmans and other grocery stores selling beer. I’d like to see the LCB stores completely privatized along with the number of licenses increased and allow them to also sell beer.
I’ve heard this ad running on WHP and the first time I heard it, I wanted to scream and go out and get good and drunk and I don’t even drink. ; )