I live in Texarkana, TX, which is in a dry county. Texarkana, AR, however, is not. So, you can't buy liquor at all where I live, but 10 minutes away you can get it anywhere. Liquor stores, WalMart, convenience stores...everywhere.

I live in Las Vegas. It's everywhere here. This weekend my husband and I went to the movies and I had a beer IN the theater. They have 21 and up movies and beverage service now at my favorite movie theater.

You can only buy hard liquor in state run stores here (which is ridiculous), but you can buy beer and wine almost anywhere (grocery store, wal-mart, 7-11).

The latest governor made some noises about getting rid of state-run stores and selling licenses to private businesses at a high price to help with budget shortfalls due to the economy early in his term; it's two years later and no dice, so I'm guessing the legislature had other ideas.

You can buy just about anywhere around here (Missouri.) There was once even a fast food restaurant near me that sold six-packs out of their drive-thru.

tippypaws wrote:You can buy just about anywhere around here (Missouri.) There was once even a fast food restaurant near me that sold six-packs out of their drive-thru.

The Missouri town I grew up in had at least 2 liquor stores with drive-thru windows.

You don't appreciate how lax Missouri is until you drive 15 - 20 minutes west into Kansas and see their liquor laws in action. (Only 3.2 beer in grocery stores, the "party shop" next door that cannot share an entrance with the main liquor store, etc...) Kansas liquor stores aren't even allowed to sell ice.

polkastria wrote:This weekend my husband and I went to the movies and I had a beer IN the theater. They have 21 and up movies and beverage service now at my favorite movie theater.

There's a movie theater just across the river from me in Iowa that serves beer and wine. There's no restriction on type of movie that you can have it with, so if you want to get a beer and sit there with your kids watching Brave, that's perfectly fine.

I live in Wisconsin, so you can get liquor pretty much anywhere. I usually buy mine at the grocery store as they have the best selection.

In Virginia, you can only buy hard liquor in a state store, but you can get beer and wine just about anywhere.

Anyone else notice it says 'grocery story'?

I'll echo my fellow Missourians in saying that it seems like anything goes here! We can thank the presence of Anheuser-Busch in St. Louis and in our Capitol where they make weekly beer deliveries during session.

As of June 1st, we can now go to the big box stores. It was bizarre to me how long the state-run liquor store plan kept getting re-voted on and supported before finally losing out. Rumor was the beer industry was strongly pushing it, to keep down the competition in the groceries.

Some odd mojo happened in NYC. Suddenly, bodegas--which used to be beer-only--and supermarkets--have started getting crappy, offbrand odd wines sold off of tiny metal racks. Not sure if it's titrated by alcohol content or what, but it's odd.

Liquor stores are profuse and open 7 days a week for all non-beer drinking needs.

dave bug wrote:As of June 1st, we can now go to the big box stores. It was bizarre to me how long the state-run liquor store plan kept getting re-voted on and supported before finally losing out. Rumor was the beer industry was strongly pushing it, to keep down the competition in the groceries.

I mostly find it hilarious now that there are so many huge jugs of gin, vodka, etc. prominently displayed. I'm sure those sizes have always been available but the marketing of it appears to be "drink lots". The per unit saving doesn't appear to be that much better either.

From the looks of these comments, there are a heck of a lot of people who don't know the difference between beer and liquor.

There was a Wienerschnitzel near my house that sells beer. They would not sell you a pint at the drive though.

Liquor store only here in DFW. I would love to use my Kroger card to get cheaper prices like in L.A.

Around here you can get 3.2 beer just about anywhere, but liquor stores can sell anything above that. They just can't sell anything else. There have been a few bills that have come up to try and open up sales to more locations but the fervor hasn't been there. It's really not that much of an inconvenience to hit a liquor store anyway.

Wine and beer at the grocery, but liquor at the liquor store.

Here, you can buy liquor anywhere (grocery store, liquor store, etc.), but the timing is critical. After 9:00PM, you can only go to a bar - liquor stores close and grocery stores block off the liquor isle.

I have no idea. I haven't looked, since I don't drink any liqours. Beer and wine only.

Pennsylvania is Jab-jab-jab-Jabberjawic. They're finally (but slowly) moving away from state-owned liquor stores. We are not allowed to have wines shipped in unless they go to a local "state store" for pickup so that they can apply a 15% tax.

That tax ORIGINALLY was created to fund recovery efforts after the horrific Johnstown Flood in the late 19th century. Needless to say, our ever-greedy politicians not only never repealed the tax but also increased it from its original 8% to the current 15%.

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