Towns that sell beer and wine

[SuperBowlNachos]

If you want to see people think the end of the world is coming, get your town to approve beer and wine sales in grocery stores. My town in Texas just passed it by public vote and you would swear we are going to be in worse condition then Detroit this time next year by how people are freaking out.

[Splitter77]

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A wegmans just opened near my town and I tell you. its amazing to shop for all that food and all that alcohol.

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I have traveled around a lot and pretty much anywhere where you cannot purchase alcohol in any store is far too backwoods for my tastes. There are a lot more "dry counties" out there than city folk would ever imagine.

[Gotmadskillzson]

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Yeah I remember growing up, it was quite a few dry suburbs around Chicago. And it is the same thing with malls and super walmarts. You have some towns that think if that comes to the town, a lot of bad things will happen.

The state of Vermont is like that. You won't find a super walmart in this state and it is only one mall in this entire state and it isn't even big.

[aukevin]

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If you want to see people think the end of the world is coming, get your town to approve beer and wine sales in grocery stores. My town in Texas just passed it by public vote and you would swear we are going to be in worse condition then Detroit this time next year by how people are freaking out.

Does your town have a lot of small shops and no big retailers like Wal-Mart in it? Restricting the sale of alcohol helps keep stores like Wal-Mart out of small communities.

[Cutter15]

I have traveled around a lot and pretty much anywhere where you cannot purchase alcohol in any store is far too backwoods for my tastes. There are a lot more "dry counties" out there than city folk would ever imagine.

I live in a dry county and I turned out okay. Now if you'll excuse me, gots ta go brush my tooth and get ready for a date with my cousin. We goin huntin!

[AUChase]

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We're a wet county, but you cannot buy/sell alcohol on Sundays.

[Gotmadskillzson]

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We're a wet county, but you cannot buy/sell alcohol on Sundays.

Wouldn't that be called a blue law county ?

[ImTellinTim]

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"Blue laws" are asinine in this day and age. In Minnesota, you can't buy alcohol from a store or liquor store on Sunday. Also, any beer sold at a supermarket or gas station (can't sell liquor there, btw) has a limit of 3.2%. But you can drink in the bars on Sunday. So people, you cannot buy some alcohol for consumption in your own home today, therefore drive to the bar! Luckily, I live across a bridge from Wisconsin, so if I wish to buy some beer on a Sunday for consumption in my own home, I can drive there to buy it. Way to keep business in the state!

In Michigan, you can't buy alcohol before noon on a Sunday. Well, that's unless you live in a county that borders Wisconsin, where they moved that to 11:00 AM a few years ago. You see, those counties are in the Central time zone and it wasn't fair that all those Eastern time zone counties got an hour head-start. This actually had a bunch of time spent on it in the Michigan legislature.

There is a dry neighborhood in Duluth. There is a separate city ordinance specifically for this part of town. It was up for vote to repeal this law about 5 years ago. It lost by 1 freaking vote. People celebrated that it lost as though they had a victory over the riff-raff that was sure to frequent the rows of liquor stores that would suddenly pop up in the neighborhood.

I could go on, but that's all I can think about right at this moment that directly affect where I live or have lived.

[fistofrage]

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In Michigan you can buy it everywhere including Target. Only restriction I know of is no sale of hard liquor between 2am Saturday and Noon sunday. They might have repealed that though.

Every grocery store has Beer & Wine. Most have Liquor....Typicla grocery list...

Carrots
Potatoes
Chicken Breast
Crown Royal
Apples
Lettuce
Etc

[TheMatrix31]

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"Blue laws" are asinine in this day and age. In Minnesota, you can't buy alcohol from a store or liquor store on Sunday. Also, any beer sold at a supermarket or gas station (can't sell liquor there, btw) has a limit of 3.2%. But you can drink in the bars on Sunday. So people, you cannot buy some alcohol for consumption in your own home today, therefore drive to the bar! Luckily, I live across a bridge from Wisconsin, so if I wish to buy some beer on a Sunday for consumption in my own home, I can drive there to buy it. Way to keep business in the state!

In Michigan, you can't buy alcohol before noon on a Sunday. Well, that's unless you live in a county that borders Wisconsin, where they moved that to 11:00 AM a few years ago. You see, those counties are in the Central time zone and it wasn't fair that all those Eastern time zone counties got an hour head-start. This actually had a bunch of time spent on it in the Michigan legislature.

There is a dry neighborhood in Duluth. There is a separate city ordinance specifically for this part of town. It was up for vote to repeal this law about 5 years ago. It lost by 1 freaking vote. People celebrated that it lost as though they had a victory over the riff-raff that was sure to frequent the rows of liquor stores that would suddenly pop up in the neighborhood.

I could go on, but that's all I can think about right at this moment that directly affect where I live or have lived.

What the hell kinda nonsense is this?

[Husker_OS]

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Tuscaloosa just caught up to the 21st century about 2 years ago. You couldn't buy high gravity beer anywhere in the entire county. So 5.8% ABV was the limit in a county with a 30,000 student university and a 2,500 student HBCU. You also couldn't purchase alcohol on Sundays.


But now, you can purchase alcohol on Sundays until 9 PM in city limits. High gravity beer is allowed as well in city limits. The county voted no on Sunday alcohol sales this year.

You can't purchase liquor anywhere but a package store or a state sanctioned package store in Alabama. Liquor is expensive as hell here. It's about 15-20 percent more expensive here than in Tennessee.

[Trevytrev11]

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I miss California where I could go to any grocery store or gas station and buy whatever combination of beer, wine or liquor pretty much where and whenever i wanted (there may have been some late night time restrictions).

Especially with Costco....A huge bottle of Crown or Grey Goose for 10-20% less than other places.

As others said, some of the laws in other states, including here in Texas are dumb and make no logical sense.

[Mabster]

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Wow, being from and living in California my whole life I didn't know there were these types of wide spread restrictions. Took a ski trip to Utah on year in highschool and had trouble getting booze there, but I thought it was just because it was Utah.

And I thought we had it rough since we don't have beer vendors in the isle's at some sporting events.

[TheMatrix31]

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I guess California is good for SOMETHING.