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I don't know if you'd call it a cultural difference per se, but I'm from the midwest and am now living on the east coast in the US, and I am shocked that grocery stores, and even Target, just sell alcohol. Where I'm from, alcohol all has to be sold in separate stores. You'd never find it mixed in a supermarket or department store.

I suppose forcing it to be in separate shops is state mandated job creation in the private sector. So there is that.

Except this is incredibly varied state to state on the east coast. Virgina requires all hard liquor to be sold at ABC stores. South Carolina has very specific hours that liquor can be sold and any building that sells liquor has to have 4 red dots on it. New Jersey require all alcohol to be sold separately. New York it's just hard liquor, beer/wine can be sold anywhere.

>New Jersey require all alcohol to be sold separately

Nope, I can go to the supermarket and pick up wine and beer.

Here it varies town to town. No state law about it.

In Safeways in California if you're paying for a lot of groceries with a check and there's alcohol in with other groceries you have to write two checks, one for the alcohol and the other for non-alcohol stuff. I've only seen this in safeway's, no other grocery store. I have no idea why.

> New York it's just hard liquor, beer/wine can be sold anywhere.

DC and Maryland are the same way - I can go to the grocery store and buy wine and beer, but if I want anything harder, I have to go to a liquor store.

Until about 20 years ago, you could only buy alcohol in West Virginia (in the Mid-Atlantic region) at the ABC store and I think it's still illegal to sell it on Sundays. I don't drink, and neither do any of my friends, so don't know if the bars can open on Sundays. But when I worked at Wal-Mart, Saturdays were huge buying days for alcohol because everyone had to have enough to get them through to Monday, and drinking is a past-time here.

For me, culture shock was finding out that some states still have Blue Laws. When we went on vacation to South Caroline back in 2002, nothing there was open before 1 pm (or maybe it was 2 pm?). And when we asked someone about it, she quite frankly told us, "Your asses should be in church, not out shopping!". I lol'd.

My state is a liberal, yet we still have "blue laws" for alcohol. All alcohol shops can't open on Sundays. I mean, you can get a beer at a restaurant or bar, of course, but you can't go out an buy a case.

Buy two crates on Saturday then to tide you over.

You say that like that's not something that's actually occurred to us. lol

It's not really about liberal/conservative views on alcohol itself anymore. It's about liquor stores lobbying to keep sales on Sunday illegal so that they can all stay closed on Sunday without worrying about competition.

I'm an atheist. I'm staying the fuck out of south Carolina.

Why wasn't she in church instead of getting pissy at you?

I live in California now (came from the south) and I absolutely LOVE being able to go to the drug store on a Sunday and buy whatever alcohol I want. Fuck ABC sores and blue laws, tbqh!

really? cause here in Wisconsin every grocery store has a liquor department. some of 'em are pretty good, too, I can get decent sake and unique microbrews alongside the Pabst.

Michigan, too. I'm wondering if OP flipped their locales?

I'm from Chicago, and all the Targets I've been to sell alcohol, including every grocery store I've ever been to. Hell, they even sell beer and wine at the Chuck E. Cheese near me!

That's just variation in state laws. Any Target or Kroger or whatever that can sell alcohol, will. I live in Indiana and both of those places sell alcohol. They sell all kinds of alcohol, but they can't sell cold beer. Cold hard cider is okay though! You can buy alcohol during the week, but not on Sundays, or until 3AM on Monday morning. Alcohol laws are so stupid and arbitrary.

I was actually going to say this too. I like in the MN/ND area and I'm used to alcohol only being in liquor stores even with stuff like beer. WhenI go visit my BF in Iowa I'm always weirded out by like alcohol in grocery stores. I thought it would just be like small things lie beer and wine in its own little section but nope strait up handles of vodka and JD scattered though out the store. still kinda shocking to me.

I ran into that in New Zealand, which yes, I know, different country, but NZ and Australia are similar enough to be siblings.

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