Who can sell LIQUOR in your state?

[Alice28]

Yep, they do that here in Oregon. It's so lame. You can buy beer and wine in the grocery store, but have to go to the state run liquor store to get hard alcohol. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

 

[buckylarue]

Here in MN, you can buy 3.2 beer (max 3.2% alcohol content) and wine coolers from grocery stores. Harder beer, wine and hard liquor are regulated differently from community to community. In Minneapolis, there are regular privately-owned liquor stores. In Richfield (the nearest suburb S of Minneapolis), liquor is sold only in city-owned stores. Go a couple of miles further south, you're in Bloomington, and there are privatly owned stores again. The worst part is, you still can't buy liquor on Sunday here so there is a lot of traffic across the border to Wisconsin on Sunday to "fuel up"! (Heck, you can't even buy a car here on Sunday, altho I've never been able to figure out why motor vehicles are sigled out for this prohibition.....)

 

[Nancy]

In New York you can only buy beer and wine coolers in grocery stores; hard liquor and wine are in liquor stores which are state licensed. Grocery/convenience stores would never be licensed to sell the hard stuff.

What we see now in the grocery stores are wine flavored malt beverages. They supposedly taste like the real wines but are not "wine" they are malt beverages.

 

[JimVL]

(Heck, you can't even buy a car here on Sunday, altho I've never been able to figure out why motor vehicles are sigled out for this prohibition.....)

I've seen this law for a few states, from what I understand, it's not that you can't buy a car on Sunday, It has more to do with not starting a combustable engine on the day of rest. In MA we have/had blue laws that are over 350 years old. Some have been repealed, most of the others are not enforced. One law was that you couldn't be open for business on a Sunday, therefore any check dated for a Sunday was invalid. I still won't date a check for Sunday; I always put Saturday's date.

Jim

 

[arminnie]

In Louisiana you can buy liquor 24/7 almost anywhere including the places where you can get a "go cup" at the drive-thru window.

I lived in California for many years. There are very strict open container laws in CA. My favorite thing was to pick up someone from CA at the airport in New Orleans and stop at one of the drive through places on the way home and buy them (not me) a drink. They would just about pass out at the thought.

 

[Marseeya]

I'm in PA as well and about went out of my mind this afternoon trying to track down my town's liquor store.

We were in a different town and I wanted to call the one in my town to see what their hours were. I called 411 and they couldn't find the number. I called my mom, who looked in a phonebook and she couldn't find the number. DH called a beer distributor just to ask them what the liquor store was called (it was always "liquor store" in the past) and he was less than helpful. Then we tried to find a liquor store in the town we were in and there was a line of people throughout the whole store.

Dang! I don't want to drink THAT badly.

We eventually went to the store in our town (now called "Wine and Spirits" btw) and shopped there.

I hate PA!

 

[MikeB63]

My parents were born in PA and I have a sister who lives there now and I know all about the state stores. Another thing about PA is that you can't buy a six pack of beer anywhere but restaurants and bars. If you want to buy beer it's better to go to the distributor and buy a case. It's much less expensive.

Here in CT, you cannot buy alcohol (beer, wine, or liquor) on Sunday and some holidays. Beer can be bought in grocery stores. Beer, wine, and liquor can be bought in privately owned liquor stores (package stores), however, these have traditionally closed at 8:00 PM. Recently, the state extended the time to 9:00 PM, but I've yet to see a store open past 8:00.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

In MD it's the same as PA. That's for hard liquor. We also have beer and wine stores, which are privately owned. Most grocery stores do not sell beer/wine because of strange laws here--only one store of any chain in our county can sell beer/wine.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

In Louisiana you can buy liquor 24/7 almost anywhere including the places where you can get a "go cup" at the drive-thru window.

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I remember seeing this when we were in Louisiana. We were when we realized a person could get a to go drink. Of course I think we did, just so we could do it, but it's not as if we were really going to drink and drive. Scary thought!

 

[Stitchfans]

Same as most. anyone who has a licence.

DH delivers for a large liquor distributor in our area. They deliver to bars, grocery stores, liquor stores, and restaurants. He has been very busy and has been putting in a lot of hours. Very busy time of the year.

 

[Davids-Coco]

double post, sorry!

 

[Davids-Coco]

Yep, they do that here in Oregon. It's so lame. You can buy beer and wine in the grocery store, but have to go to the state run liquor store to get hard alcohol. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

Yup, and they JUST started being open a couple of hours on Sunday. The stores are only open until something like 7 pm (with the exception of 1 that I know of up off Twilliger). It is very restricted... and a pain in the butt when you need something... not that I do right now!

 

[sjh801]

My parents were born in PA and I have a sister who lives there now and I know all about the state stores. Another thing about PA is that you can't buy a six pack of beer anywhere but restaurants and bars. If you want to buy beer it's better to go to the distributor and buy a case. It's much less expensive.

Having lived all my life in PA, I still find it odd to be in other states and actually see alcoholic beverages sold in "regular" stores. I am just so used to the reality of getting beer at the beer distributor and all other alcoholic beverages at the State Store. Still seems strange to call them the Wine and Spirits Stores.

My sister and I are such Pennsylvanians that 3 years ago when we were in Ohio and saw a big bottle of Budweiser in a convenience store, we brought it home as a souvenir to show everybody.

 

[kydisneyfans]

Most counties in KY are dry-you cannot buy ANY alochol anywhere.
Scott Co has a few permits for restaurants that seat 100 or more.
Fayette Co (Lexington) has availability just about in all retail locations. Liquor stores frequently are right across the county line from a dry county.

 

[MoniqueU]

California here. Everything but gas stations sell hard liquor. Our gas stations only sell beer and wine but conveinence stores like 7 11 sometiems sell hard liquor. There are none of these funny days of the week laws either.

 

[siouxsieQ]

I live in Missouri and as far as I know you can buy any kind of alcohol almost anywhere. You can hard liquor, beer, and wine at any grocery store or convenience store as well as liquor stores. You can buy all of that at Wal-Mart too.

 

[Aidensmom]

Wow, it is amazing some of the different laws in different states! And we thought it was a big deal when you could buy beer at 11:00 am on Sunday instead of 1:00 pm, because we didn't have to miss the beginning of the Bucs game! I can't imagine having to find a special store or going to another county to do so!

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

In FL any employee in a licensed liquor store or in a store licensed to sell other alcholol (like grocery store).

I'm in NM right now--and evidently individuals must be licensed to sell liquor. Quite weird to go in SuperWalmart as there are yellow "not licensed to sell alcohol" signs on most every register (the employees have to foot the cost of going to the class and getting the license). I did find out after playing musical checkouts--that switching lines wasn't necessary--they could call someone.

My sister in Kansas City, MO--had to have her own liquor license as well when she worked at the grocery store.

 

[N.Bailey]

I'm in PA too and I HATE our laws!!!! Hate I tell ya! lol

I seen someone mention that you can buy beer in restaurants here, but that's only true if that particular restaurant has a license. I don't know how the rest of the state is, but in our area, many of the smaller towns aren't even allowed to apply for licenses because they're considered "DRY" areas.

I once watched a program (wasn't really paying a lot of attention, was prolly on the computer at the same time LOL) and someone was on talking about our laws. I do believe they said that in PA, we're not even allowed to order wine from say CA or any other area for that matter and have it shipped to our homes. Everything must go thru the state and the state alone decides what's sold here.

 

[Nite0wl71]

In Illinois you can buy beer, wine or hard liquor anywhere. There are a few rules, they don't sell it before 11 am on Sunday, and any store selling liquor has to be so many feet away from a school. I don't remember how many feet but it is not much. They actually tore down a Jewel food store and rebuilt it 5 or 6 feet farther in so they could sell alcohol. It was by a high school.

It used to be noon on Sundays, but the Bears got that changed to 11 because their games usually started at noon. Now they are trying to get it earlier, just on their property, so the people will come out and have more tailgate parties.