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As you would already know, here everyone sells everything.
And our liquor stores are called an ‘Off Licence’ or affectionately referred to as the ‘Offie’
Supermarkets have pretty much killed off the traditional independent off licence. Chains like Majestic Wine or Bargain Booze seem to be thriving though.

If you live near a town or supermarket you can usually get any booze you like delivered to your door in about 20 minutes.
 
Back in Kent, "let's go down the boozer" meant a visit to the pub. A boozer is, as SSOAP says, someone who drinks too much.
It always seems rather quaint to me, how governments around the Western world pussyfoot around the subject of alcohol. From the Temperance League in the Victorian era, the Prohibition in the USA, only selling alcohol in state-owned stores (in Sweden, they send you out with a big brown paper bag so everyone can shame you), absurdly high taxation on alcohol, etc. Over here in Venezuela, they've got a thing called "Ley seca" (dry law) which they apply just before elections and, ironically, during Holy Week - when everyone goes to the beach to have a few beers and relax.
ALL of it harks back to religion; yet Jesus turned the water into wine.
 
karadekoolaid said:
Over here in Venezuela, they've got a thing called "Ley seca" (dry law)
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We’ve got dry towns here, no alcohol sales permitted…except for exceptions like the country club or a single big restaurant. It’s what cheeses me off about dry laws and Sunday sales laws - they say they’re for one thing (protection from the demon alkyhall), but they’re really another (preservation of commercial enterprise for a select few).
 
Also, at least in my county, before any establishment is allowed to sell alcohol of any kind, it has to be voted on during election time. It gets very specific, as there will be a line item for allowing beer/wine sales, a line item for allowing distilled spirits sales, and further specifications as to whether the sales will be by the drink or in bulk/packaged.
 
TastyReuben said:
Also, at least in my county, before any establishment is allowed to sell alcohol of any kind, it has to be voted on during election time. It gets very specific, as there will be a line item for allowing beer/wine sales, a line item for allowing distilled spirits sales, and further specifications as to whether the sales will be by the drink or in bulk/packaged.
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I don’t like any of it TR.
America’s supposed to be ‘the land of the free’ a country that prizes personal freedoms and independence, feels like thats a law thats influenced by greed and moral straitjackets.
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
As you would already know, here everyone sells everything.
And our liquor stores are called an ‘Off Licence’ or affectionately referred to as the ‘Offie’
Supermarkets have pretty much killed off the traditional independent off licence. Chains like Majestic Wine or Bargain Booze seem to be thriving though.

If you live near a town or supermarket you can usually get any booze you like delivered to your door in about 20 minutes.
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I got spoiled in Las Vegas, Nevada. You could go to Walmart and there's a liquor section right there on the way to checkout so you could leave with your grub and alcohol and on the way out of the parking lot pull through the gas lanes and fill up. Next stop is Ammo Barn and we're done!
 
Barriehie said:
I got spoiled in Las Vegas, Nevada. You could go to Walmart and there's a liquor section right there on the way to checkout so you could leave with your grub and alcohol and on the way out of the parking lot pull through the gas lanes and fill up. Next stop is Ammo Barn and we're done!
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How about NOLA where you used to be able to buy liquor at the convenience store/gas stations? I don't know if they still do that or not, but in the 1980s they surely did.
 
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