Liquor stores are closed on Sundays. Some grocery stores have liquor stores attached but those must also be closed on Sundays
Recently, Microbreweries were granted the ability to have “taprooms” were they can sell pints or individual servings of beer (but they still cannot sell growlers on Sundays), however, for some reason they aren’t allowed to sell food. Which has led to most of them having agreements with food trucks (or a nearby restaurant that delivers) that will park right outside on the weekend, so if you want some food you walk outside and buy it from the food truck. A really strange law, i dunno kind of makes the experience charming in a way. I can’t believe it has persisted though since it seems like there is a microbrewery on every block in or near Minneapolis.
Also, i grew up in PA, and when i first moved to Minnesota i was at the bar and asked to buy a six pack. The bartender looked at me like i had two heads and just said “No.” :smack: Awkward.
While, yes, there is sometimes a clerk at the self-scan lines, most stores only have that position staffed during busy times. Since those infernal machines fail so often, requiring the clerks’ constant attention during peak sales hours, it would be setting that clerk up for failure to also expect them to check ID’s and punch in their code to allow the beer sale. One slip of the mind, and the clerk is fired. I cannot say I disagree with the law even if it as you portray it.
None here in Louisiana. There are no state imposed restrictions. Booze can be purchases 24/7/365 at liquor stores, drug stores, gas stations, grocery stores, etc. Municipalities and parishes are allowed to make restrictions if they want, but you’ll only see that in the northern part of the state.
Go back far enough, but still in my lifetime, and you couldn’t buy any kind of package liquor anytime, anywhere on Sunday in Missouri. You couldn’t buy clothes, toys or dimestore items, either, so the “super” drug stores roped off or covered most of the store on Sundays. About the only thing that was legal to buy was drugs or food.
Among other asinine laws In Oklahoma ,for a time, women could by alcohol at 18 but men had to be 21. Cite to corroborate my memory of hanging out at a particular arcade that was next to a liquor store and guys cruising by all night long asking if any of us were 18.
Makes me think of the bar-age regulations in Thailand. At least for straight-up bars – not sure if this applies to pubs and nightclubs too, but if it does, the law is clearly not enforced, judging by all the college students you see – but in straight-up bars such as are found in the red-light areas like Nana Plaza and Patpong, you can work in one at age 18 but not patronize one unless age 21. This has led to many bizarre incidents in which an 18-, 19- or 20-year-old bargirl is barfined by a customer – the “barfine” being the small payment to the bar to compensate it for the loss of an employee for a few hours or even all night, the thinking being the fewer girls, the fewer customers – but a girl will be barfined in one establishment and taken to another bar one or two doors down. But Aha! There she is a customer and not an employee, and there’s an undercover cop there, and Pop! That bar gets hit with a 30-day closure order by the police. If she works in a bar, she can drink herself silly, but heaven forbid if she should ever set foot in a different one.