Nink
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Post by Nink on Apr 15, 2015 12:06:48 GMT
Living in Southern California you can pretty much buy liquor anytime, anywhere for the most part. I went to visit my brother in Lubbock, TX and remember having to drive to this place called "the strip" to buy any alcohol. It cracked me up.
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Post by KikiPea on Apr 15, 2015 12:21:58 GMT
I'm in Texas too so yes, I know about the Blue laws. The current auto sales law is that you cannot sell on consecutive Saturday and Sunday so you can open on one or the other. All of them choose to open on Saturday instead of Sunday. There was a local dealership that tried opening on Sunday instead of Saturday for a month or so. That ended quickly so I guess it didn't work out for them. I don't really care if they repeal the law. Our Jeep dealership is closed on Saturday and open on Sunday. We discovered that when we went to look at Jeeps back in October. I thought it was weird, but I guess it's working for them.
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Post by Meri-Lyn on Apr 15, 2015 12:27:14 GMT
I was wondering if we had any dry counties here, I wasn't sure, but Pahina just answered my question. Just about everyone has some restriction on when to sell on Sunday, but it's up to the individual county. Someone mentioned football fans, and that's a funny story. For years, the law was no sales before 1pm on Sundays. You'd get to the stadium for a Bucs game and there would be hoards of fans waiting outside the concession stands waiting for 1pm to get their beer. It was to the point to where, if there were a 1pm game, you'd watch on TV and see it was 2/3rds empty at kick-off. Everyone was outside waiting for their beer. The commissioners finally decided to push it back to 11am for that reason. They don't really rope anything off, at least not at Publix, they just hang a sign. And I *think* the register won't let you ring it before 11am. But only beer and wine inside the store, hard liquor is sold in a separate *store* with it's own entrance.
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Post by katieanna on Apr 15, 2015 12:40:27 GMT
As far back as I can remember, PA has had wine and spirits stores operated by the state. No beer, wine, etc. can be purchased in grocery stores...only in the state-run stores. I don't know about car dealerships being open on Sundays in PA. I must never have gone car shopping on a Sunday. ETA: Recently bill(s) have been introduced to privatize the sale of liquor. I don't know where that stands, though, at this point.
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Sarah*H
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Post by Sarah*H on Apr 15, 2015 12:47:00 GMT
PA actually IS a commonwealth and not a state which just means when it organized, it did so for the "common welfare" of the citizens rather than just incorporate as a former colony of Great Britain.
Beer and wine can ostensibly be sold in some grocery stores but there are none within easy driving distance of me where that actually happens. Beer distributorships are still the primary source of beer sales and thanks to football, they can sell 7 days a week, starting early in the morning all 7 days. Very soon (if not already,) they will be allowed to sell 6 packs in addition to full cases. There have been proposals to let them sell wine as well but nothing has come to fruition.
Liquor is still sold only in state stores. In very recent years, each county can have a certain number of state stores open on Sunday from 12-5. I think there are 3 such stores in my county.
I don't know if we actually have laws about when car dealerships are open but at least on my side of the state, none are open on Sundays.
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blue tulip
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Post by blue tulip on Apr 15, 2015 12:51:58 GMT
katybee Is alcohol sold in grocery stores in Texas? Is that section of a store locked up on a Sunday? I personally think Blue Laws and Dry Counties are a bit antiquated. When I reached drinking age, we could only buy alcohol at government run liquor stores that only took cash and had restricted hours. I'm sure they weren't open on Sunday so you had to plan and shop ahead for the weekend. I really like being able to buy my wine/beer with my groceries any day of the week. our county used to have no alcohol sales on sunday, now it's no sales before noon. when I was a grocery store cashier, people unaware of the law would bring up alcohol and we'd have to inform them, they'd be mad, and the bottles would get set to the side of our lane for the support help to put away. I got good at giving directions to the liquor store at the nearest county border, about 10 miles away.
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smartypants71
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Post by smartypants71 on Apr 15, 2015 12:59:48 GMT
Another Texan who wants to know what the Jesus wall is. Also, do any of the Texans remember when the blue laws were even stricter than they are now and the malls were closed on Sunday too? I also remember in my much younger days racing to the convenience store before 1am on Saturdays to load up on beer LOL! I was thinking maybe the little cubby in the wall that's got a light in it? I had never seen a house with those until we got stationed in San Antonio, where my DH mostly grew up, and have always heard them called "Jesus holes". Our house in Colorado has one also. I'm from New Hampshire, they were something new to me. That literally made me LOL! I do know what you are talking about though. I just didn't know they had a name.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2015 13:25:54 GMT
If I remember, where I am, no booze before noon. Or around there-may be 11. No hard liquor in the grocery store, wine and beer only. Hard liquor comes from the package store-although you can also buy beer and wine there as well. We also have several wine only specialty stores. None are run by the state, some are actually attached to grocery stores like Publix, or to a place like Walgreens; some are run by private organizations like the ABC liquor store. Car dealerships are closed on Sundays. Not sure what the reasoning here is other than maybe just tradition? When I was younger, Publix was closed on Sundays. I would guess that changed in the last twenty five years or so. Here in Pinellas county most car dealers are open on Sunday's. It probably varies by area.
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Post by stefdesign on Apr 15, 2015 13:39:17 GMT
Blue laws are by county here and we do have at least 1 county where all stores are closed on Sunday. There are also some shore towns that are 'dry' meaning no alcohol can be sold within the town in any way on any day. To compete with other town some have chosen to cater to family activities only and it seems to be working for them as there are many famiee that want to go to the beach but do not want to deal with the wild out of control issues some towns have. I live in that county with the blue laws! So funny, we moved here from California 2 1/2 years ago, and I thought NJ was so progressive and liberal. Good thing we don't shop on Sundays anyway, or I would be ticked!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2015 14:24:11 GMT
Another Texan who wants to know what the Jesus wall is. Also, do any of the Texans remember when the blue laws were even stricter than they are now and the malls were closed on Sunday too? I also remember in my much younger days racing to the convenience store before 1am on Saturdays to load up on beer LOL! I was thinking maybe the little cubby in the wall that's got a light in it? I had never seen a house with those until we got stationed in San Antonio, where my DH mostly grew up, and have always heard them called "Jesus holes". Our house in Colorado has one also. I'm from New Hampshire, they were something new to me. I've seen a few of those little cubbies in MI, mostly in older homes. Some of the ones I've seen had been converted to be used as a spot for the phone. The house I grew up in had one until my Dad knocked that wall out in one of his remodels. Before that, my parents used it as a perch for their phone. Living in OK for a few years, I saw a lot of houses that had a wall of crosses and some had a picture of Jesus or the Virgin Mary in the middle of them.
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Post by melanell on Apr 15, 2015 14:33:47 GMT
Yes, we do. And we have a world of weird alcohol laws around here (PA), although we have come a very long way with those in the last 10 years.
And although I do not know of any dry counties in PA, I do know of a few dry towns.
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Post by jonda1974 on Apr 15, 2015 14:55:01 GMT
Blue laws are by county here and we do have at least 1 county where all stores are closed on Sunday. There are also some shore towns that are 'dry' meaning no alcohol can be sold within the town in any way on any day. To compete with other town some have chosen to cater to family activities only and it seems to be working for them as there are many famiee that want to go to the beach but do not want to deal with the wild out of control issues some towns have. I live in that county with the blue laws! So funny, we moved here from California 2 1/2 years ago, and I thought NJ was so progressive and liberal. Good thing we don't shop on Sundays anyway, or I would be ticked! My ex-best friend lived in that county. It's crazy. I'm so glad I don't LOL. But it makes our stores busier on Sundays
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Post by jonda1974 on Apr 15, 2015 14:57:27 GMT
I am always surprised someone doesn't go through all these old laws and just do away with them to clean up the books. Just curious, why does it make sense to have to order food if I want to buy a drink. In Oklahoma at least, the difference between a restaurant and a bar is the sales of food. Restaurants sell food with some drinks but the main sale is food. Bars are flipped. At one time they had different licensing laws applied to them (may still have) So a restaurant wanted to make sure all patrons bought food to keep their food sales as the main sales volume. If you just want a soft drink you can. It is the sale of beer/wine that is going to cause you to need to order food if you are in a restaurant. Oh no, that I understood. If a restaurant wants to make sure they sell food along with the alcohol that's one thing. It's the issue of having to have a law that requires a restaurant to sell food ALONG with a drink order, even if a person just wants to go into Applebee's sit at the bar and drink on a Sunday
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loco coco
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Post by loco coco on Apr 15, 2015 15:05:50 GMT
Texan here, they dont bother me. My DH used to work at a car dealership and Sunday was the only day we could count on him being off. I learned the hard way about buying beer on Sunday before a Cowboys game and had to wait at the store until 12, havent done it since!
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Post by gorgeouskid on Apr 15, 2015 15:09:51 GMT
I don't know if it's a blue law, but alcohol sales are suspended between 2 and 6 am daily- no bottle sales, no bar sales.
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Post by ferblover on Apr 15, 2015 15:31:59 GMT
Not sure if this is still the case, but when I was in high school I lived in IN, the law there was no bar in a restaurant could be visible to the restaurant to protect the innocent little children. We didn't have an Applebees but I always wondered how that would have worked since most I have now seen are in the middle of the restaurant in full view. Here in CO, no car sales in Sundays. Grocery stores can just recently(past few years) sell some beer(limit on alcohol percentage) but overall only one store in an entire chain can sell more than beer. So when Trader Joe's came to CO, only one store was allowed to sell liquor even though they opened three stores. Costco gets around this by having a liquor store owned by someone else on their property. When we visit other states it throws me off walking down the aisle of Target and seeing the selection of wine. In the past few years the law has been relaxed to have liquor stores open and selling on Sunday.
I think it costs money to repeal some antiquated laws, I believe it still has to be voted on if I remember correctly.
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my3freaks
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Post by my3freaks on Apr 16, 2015 5:54:23 GMT
I was thinking maybe the little cubby in the wall that's got a light in it? I had never seen a house with those until we got stationed in San Antonio, where my DH mostly grew up, and have always heard them called "Jesus holes". Our house in Colorado has one also. I'm from New Hampshire, they were something new to me. That literally made me LOL! I do know what you are talking about though. I just didn't know they had a name. I'm glad, I figured I was going to offend someone! Most of the ones I've seen have been like a little " catholic shrine " cubby basically. They always have a Jesus candle, so even though we are not at all religious, none of us are even baptized, I bought a Jesus candle at the grocery store to go in our Jesus hole. . It is right outside my kids bathroom so I end up putting stuff like razors, pads, toothpaste, etc there for them to put away too... It's very fancy!
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