Kids in liquor stores.... First impressions?

[htmom]

This thread made me LOL. I work next to our local liquor store in our plaza. The business that place gets!!! Makes me jealous lol

Anyway, we are so used to our fire lane being blocked up. We call the cops at least once a week. Its so weird. Most of the customers park in the HUGE parking lot, others feel "entitled"? and will only park in the fire lane to go in said store. It is so bad we now call the line McLiquor

It is funny though, they have their "regulars" that are in EVERY day to buy a bottle (not wine usually) Their "weeklys", us normal folk who pop in once a week to get a box of wine or a bottle, and their "partiers" those who park out back to actually get cases loaded into thier car every week.

This liquor store does not allow anyone under 21 to enter, there is a sign on the door and they check IDs when you walk in.

 

[disykat]

I'll vote with the minority. I've always assumed it is illegal, so I would have had a poor first impression. Since reading this thread I know differently since someone from my state posted it's legal here.

We can get beer and wine in the grocery store and the few times I've gone into an actual liquor store there have been no kids there, and no products that would appeal to kids. I just assumed it was like a bar and kids couldn't enter.

 

[pperfectmom]

My kids love going to the Liquorbarn because they give the kids free balloons. They've probably been with me to buy booze more often than I've taken them in Walmart. Now THAT'S a nightmare.

 

[312.Duck]

My kids love going to the Liquorbarn because they give the kids free balloons.

roping 'em in early!

 

[rie'smom]

Not my business
If the mom was giving her kids liquor or lighting cigarettes for them, that would be different.

 

[scbelleatheart]

I was the treasurer for the local veterans club. Weekly we would place an order for liquor, beer and cigarettes (yes veterans do smoke. The gov't gave them their cigarettes didn't they?). They called us with the total and I would go pick it up with the prewritten check that I was the authorized signer for. We had known the owner for years and the previous owner was good freinds of the family we knew them quite well and they saw me weekly. I often took my kids to help unload it after pick up.

 

[SmallWorld71]

I just assumed it was like a bar and kids couldn't enter.

Laws on this vary by state.

I enjoyed many a Shirley Temple with my friends inside the local pub when we were kids. And, I had my own kids in a pub just a couple months ago - the Hog's Head Pub enjoying some yummy butterbeer!

 

[Elmo9607]

Count me in as another person who loves the bottles...the last time I was in the liquor store I stared at more than a few just thinking about how pretty they are and how nice they would look sitting on my shelf!! (The Skyy Vodka bottles match my room wonderfully! I'm a bit bummed I haven't gotten any yet )

 

[RainbowBrite]

When I was a kid my uncle worked in a liquor store and whenever my mother and I were in the area we stopped in to say hello. We would always chat for a few minutes. So you never really know why the employee seemed to know the kids and their mother so well. That being said, I see nothing wrong with bringing your children to a liquor store or even consuming it in front of them as long as a parent is not falling down drunk every night

 

[TyRy]

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[312.Duck]

I do love all the mixers that come in cool looking bottles ...

Me too!

 

[scrapquitler]

I'll vote with the minority. I've always assumed it is illegal, so I would have had a poor first impression. Since reading this thread I know differently since someone from my state posted it's legal here.

We can get beer and wine in the grocery store and the few times I've gone into an actual liquor store there have been no kids there, and no products that would appeal to kids. I just assumed it was like a bar and kids couldn't enter.

In my state, you can buy beer in the grocery store or convenience store, but to buy wine or liquor, you must go into a liquor store (commonly known as a 'package store;'). Kids are allowed, but obviously they can't purchase Most of the package stores also sell lottery tickets.

My kids go in with me, because I'm not leaving them in the car (which is illegal). They know that alcoholic beverages are for adults only, and they understand that. Keeping them out of the liquor store would only make it seem more 'forbidden' and mysterious, and probably get them more interested in it. They are allowed in the convenience store where cigarettes are sold, and they aren't legally allowed to buy cigarettes, so what's the difference?

As to the OP, I don't see an issue of the lady buying her wine or whatever with a check, I buy it with a credit card (I almost never carry more than about $10 in cash). And my children are likely to know the person working in the liquor store, he/she might be the parent of a friend of theirs, a neighbor, a member or our church, etc. There's no shame in working in a liquor store and there's nothing taboo about 'knowing' someone who works there.

I just don't see all the fuss

 

[J3nn78]

The judgments passed here never cease to amaze me. There is nothing wrong with a child accompanying a parent into a liquor store. Its not like they were in a sex/porn shop