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Alabama ranked at the near bottom of best States to live in
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how do liquor stores work in Alabama? would a customer tell the difference between a liquor store in bama vs another state?
To the best of my knowledge, not significantly.
The state I live in has a monopoly on the wholesale of liquor. The only difference you can tell is that liquor has the same price in every store. It can't go on sale or be discounted or used in promotions.
I don't know about Alabama, but Pennsylvania also has state-owned liquor stores. For PA, you can get beer and wine in a lot of places, including ~~gas stations~~, supermarkets, and beer stores. However, if you want hard liquor, you have to go to specific stores just for that. If you go to a beer store looking for rum, you'll be out of luck.
ETA: Only certain licensed gas stations sell beer and it differs by local laws, so YMMV.
Last time I tried that, they limited me to two 6 packs of beer. Mother-fucker, I’m not drinking this all tonight, but I like this brewery and won’t be back for a year or more.
Do they still do that?
Has this changed recently?
Because my understanding was that no, you absolutely cannot get it at gas stations.
You can sometimes find them in grocery stores, but that's a loophole and only works if the store sells hot food (usually buffet style) so they can classify the separate POS as a restaurant with a liquor license.
And if you want more than a 12 pack of beer, you have to go to a "Beer Distributor". A separate store that only sells cases of beer.
Aside from the grocery stores who have gone through the legal loopholes (it's far from all of them), you can only get wine from the state stores that only sell wine and liquor (no beer).
It's stupid. Remnants from prohibition.
It appears that selling beer at PA gas stations requires a special license and is limited by local laws. One town might allow it, but the next town over doesn't.
I guess because the laws about it weren't confusing enough already.
When I first moved here nearly 20 years ago, this was not the case. You could only buy beer at special stores where you could only buy it by the case, or you could buy individual six-packs to take home at bars and taverns. Wine was only available from the state-run stores along with the hard liquor (and this is still the case for the hard stuff). Coming from a state that had fucking drive-thru daiquiri shops, this was hard to accept.
Louisiana? Those drive-thru daiquiri shops blew my mind. I had been told that leaving a bit of paper on the straw counts as a "seal," but when I went to one I didn't even get a paper on the straw.
When I lived there it was a piece of scotch tape holding the lid on. Because removing a piece of scotch tape is just too complex a technical task to possibly be accomplished in a car.
I guess drive-thru daiquiri shops aren't any more egregious than bars with parking lots.
When I was kid in Ohio, I would sometimes go into the state-operated liquor store with my dad when we were running errands. There was one bottle of each product on display behind glass, with a number, and you'd write down the numbers of all your selections, and give them to a guy at a counter, also behind glass, like a bank teller. He'd go get your bottles, and you'd pay and leave.
I was just a kid, and even I could see that this was an inefficient and stupid way to run a retail operation. At some point they changed the law, and regular retail liquor stores became legal, and state run stores disappeared. You could buy beer and wine at grocery stores, gas stations, etc., but hard liquor was only at liquor stores.
I was an adult when the switch happened, and I was friendly with my favorite store to buy beer. They got one of the first licenses to sell hard liquor, and when he told me, I said "Oooh, you're gonna get RICH!" and he just gave me the biggest smile I think I've ever seen.