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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWoo-hoo! At last, we in CT can buy alcohol on Sundays!
We have left Indiana, the only other state in the U.S. where Sunday alcohol sales are prohibited!
Link here: http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2012/05/02/news/doc4fa05a2a22e84829223933.txt
For all these years this was pure protectionism for the benefit of the liquor stores who didn't want to have to bear the cost of opening their stores on Sunday. You couldn't even buy beer in supermarkets on Sundays (beer sections were covered with heavy plastic curtains) and you still can't buy wine in supermarkets. Go figure that.
We can thank our new Dem governor, Dan Malloy, for working this thing thru. The shameless liquor store lobby "compromised" by removing any restriction on pricing, screwing the consumers, something Malloy deeply opposed. That issue will be "studied" and brought back next year.
I'll raise a glass of Pinot Noir in celebration!
xchrom
(108,903 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Bonhomme Richard
(9,000 posts)while keeping the price (profit) protection in place. The irony.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)But the owners whine about how this will "hurt the little guy." But the evidence is in, in all the other states. Obviously, the liquor stores there have been able to make a profit.
Bonhomme Richard
(9,000 posts)to pick up that sixpack anymore.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)It's not a huge deal unless you want to do some last minute entertaining on Sunday and you don't have a wine cellar handy or an extra refrigerator to hold extra beer...
treestar
(82,383 posts)Took us until a few years ago.
Still have the prohibition against it on Easter and Election Days - people shouldn't drink on Election Day - though it started I believe in colonial times trying to prevent the gathered voters from getting too rowdy at the taverns.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)CT has a rich history of settlement by Puritans. In fact, Yale was founded to save young men from attending that hotbed of the devil, Harvard. A number of residential colleges at Yale are named after several notable CT Puritans, including Jonathan Edwards ("sinners in the hands of an angry God" .
Of course, the Puritan argument which became the Prohibition argument, has been protectionism for many years now. The liquor store owners are lazy and don't want to have to keep up with the times. Geez...
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)from Delaware I was happy to see beer in supermarkets, they didn't have that in Delaware. I took the train up one Sunday ready to get to work and thought, damn a couple of beers would be good watching the hockey game. My wife was still in Delaware while we got settled.
Imagine my surprise when I walked into Stop&Shop, beer money burning a hole in my pocket, just to find a curtain over the beer aisle. I could see the beer hiding just behind the stupid curtain, if I can sneak a case out can I buy it? What the hell man, I was not happy... the guy working there informed me of the incredibly antiquated liquor laws and told me how to get to the closest store in Massachusetts
10 years later and they finally make a change for the better.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)buy alcohol on Sundays, and wine in supermarkets! I was stunned to learn that I couldn't do that in a state as blue and as liberal as CT...
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)i dont drink often. so seldom and only a couple times in two decades i have tried to buy booze to be told, nope, not until 12.
wtf.... i promise, i am not going to drink it until after 12.
it is funny
good for you all.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)to be in Farmer's Branch, which was dry. Don't know if it still is.
BUT, I have come to find out that we have a town in CT that is dry. It's Weston and it is in ritzy Fairfield County, not too far from Westport, New Canaan and Greenwich. THAT was pretty surprising to me...
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)i walk into a restaurant and ask, can i drink here??? lol
you have to get a card of membership for a couple dollars to drink in some restaurants.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)I truly don't know why these local towns pass such ridiculous laws that they promptly give an "out" to. It's just crazy...
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)Really?
I mean we're Delaware, if we want to buy booze on a Sunday we're only 30 minutes from Maryland and/or New Jersey so why should we give them our money?
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)LynneSin
(95,337 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)I just plan pretty well. It works out fine.
treestar
(82,383 posts)The first think you see crossing into Maryland are liquor stores.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)Total Wine, right off of 95 on Naamen's road is suppose to be the 2nd largest liquor store in the country. I think that building is about the same size as a small Wal-mart - crazy!
Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)One_Life_To_Give
(6,036 posts)might as well get the beer too while your filling up on cheap gas.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)No tax on booze in Mass. It'll still be cheaper to buy in Mass.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)I really don't mind my state taxing alcohol. It's a Pigouvian tax I can live with. And I certainly can live with heavy taxes on cigarettes.
BumRushDaShow
(128,919 posts)where there's no alcohol in supermarkets and only a few State Stores (not all) are open on Sundays now (as of last year or the year before). Oh that's right, they are now called "Wine and Spirits Shoppes" (LOL) and even the tea bagger governor and his tea bagger legislature can't seem to get past the PA "T" fundies. Of course as it stands, these stores are run with state employees and the biz wing is butting up against those fundies with respect to privatizing and I support the state workers in principle.
MadrasT
(7,237 posts)Remember back in the day when they kept all the booze behind the counter and you had to ASK THE GUY at the counter for your fifth of vodka?
At least they let us stroll down the aisles ourselves now. And there is the loosening up on Sundays thing.
"Wine and Spirits Shoppes"
Then there's the bit about having to go to a WHOLE DIFFERENT SPECIAL STORE to buy a case of beer...
opiate69
(10,129 posts)I can remember many good parties in high school that got cut short when the beer ran out at 10 on a Saturday... are package stores still the only places you can buy liquor?
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Beer, yes.
I wish we could buy wine at the supermarket. It's so handy not to have to make a separate trip. I don't drink liquor, except for an occasional cocktail when I'm dining out, so that's not an issue for me.
opiate69
(10,129 posts)well before I started appreciating wine... but yeah we had to go to the packy for all of our beer and mixed drink needs... although, at least the packys there carried mixers.. here in Washington, it takes 2 stops to get thr makings of most mixed drinks.
BumRushDaShow
(128,919 posts)like they tried here in PA as a pilot test. That didn't last long. I think they've all been pulled.
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/09/pas_wine-vending_machine_exper.html
CTyankee
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There are several in Florence. They are are little doors, called wine doors, in the palazzi of the wealth families. They sold their excess wine from their country vineyards to the public. One of the wine doors I saw even had their daily hours carved in stone above it!
Evidently you would bring your wineskin to the door, knock and a servant would take your money and fill your wineskin. How cool is that?
BumRushDaShow
(128,919 posts)to hold the wine and maybe some bread!
madinmaryland
(64,931 posts)some beer. Even if the ride was a half hour!
hfojvt
(37,573 posts)But I'd kinda like to bring back prohibition. I don't see any good coming out of alcohol consumption.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)yer hands!
But seriously, we do have a funny way of treating alcohol in this country. From the extreme of teetotaling to getting wasted. We'd have far fewer problems with alcohol if we had a more European outlook, IMO...
hfojvt
(37,573 posts)I don't drink, I don't get drunk, I don't fall down.
No problem.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)It's the tendency of lots of people in this country to go from one extreme to the other. That's what I find sad and crazy at the same time. There really is such a thing as sane, responsible drinking...
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)on Sunday. It is only legal in some counties because it was not on the ballot in all counties, but luckily, mine was one of them where it is now legal. It is about time we got rid of these dumb blue laws.
Stinky The Clown
(67,798 posts)I was born and raised in Connecticut. Sunday "blue laws" and no wine in liquor stores.
I lived in South Carolina. Dry except 3.2 beer and then, while I lived there, legal miniatures. How silly.
I lived in North Carolina. We had to join the Elks to have a place to drink.
I lived in Tennessee. Still had to stay with the Elks for a while.
I lived in Ohio. State Stores, with all the charm of an East German mortuary.
I now live in Maryland. No internet liquor purchases, including wine. The wine part will be changing, though. That will make Maryland a lot more mainstream.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Very drab, no advertising. On purpose, of course...dumbass state legislature. I'm glad I moved to CT...
UnrepentantLiberal
(11,700 posts)here in Jersey. And they all close at 10:00PM.