The mind boggles when trying to understand the variation in liquor pricing and availability within the U.S.
In the U.S., some states, like North Carolina and Virginia are blessed with state-run liquor stores. In those states there is no option but to buy your spirits from the state-run ABC (or distill your own). But wine (sometimes, some states) and beer are in the grocery stores, the "quick stop" stores, etc. The states, in their beneficence, do not provide low prices for their goods, but the mark- up is not too exorbitant either. In Missouri, when I moved there 24 years ago, I could buy spirits, wine, and beer in any grocery store, as long as it wasn't Sunday. At the time, across the river in Kansas, you couldn't buy anything beyond watered-down beer anywhere except an ABC store, nor could you buy alcoholic drinks in a public restaurant. Which led to the fiction of many many "private clubs" restricted in membership to those who could walk or wheel through the door and pay $1 for a membership. Now I can buy anything anywhere at any time in Kansas and Missouri, except that spirits are still controlled by the ABC in Kansas. At very decent prices in my Missouri stores (with single malts, for example, often lower than prices at duty-free shops in Heathrow). In Michigan where I frequently travel, the anything/ anywhere rules apply, except before noon on Sunday and then it is nothing/nowhere. And then there are "dry" counties scattered around the country where they have strict nothing/no-where/no-way/distill-your-own-and-take- your-chances-with-the-revenuers rules. Such as the county which encompasses GFM IIRC... stan On Dec 27, 2007, at 8:04 AM, mike wilson wrote: > >> >> From: graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> One Christmas I was in the local ABC (Alcohol >> Beverage Control, for those of you who live in more >> civilized areas) store when the lady in line in front of me >> handed the clerk her credit card and said she wanted their >> most expensive Brandy for her husband's boss's Christmas >> present. There were fireworks when they handed her the $1200 >> credit card slip to sign. Snobs! > > Not just an ostentatious snob but uneducated, too. Even the local > Costco can hit nearly that price. Any decent wine merchant would > have walloped her for two or three times that. > > > ----------------------------------------- > Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email > Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
