A terrible idea. It would mean that it would be impossible to get most wines and liquors. Liquor stores can always carry a wider selection than a grocery store, and a grocery store would only stock best-selling brands and certainly no high end liquors or wines.
But the cheaper stuff keeps liquor stores in business, so they’d fail and most people would be stuck with Gallo Wine and the ilk. Single-malt scotch would be impossible to find. It would also hurt wineries and distilleries.
Many states do have beer & wine in Supermarkets. They still have successful liquor stores. I’m not sure your post holds up well to reality, but maybe I’m missing something.
Re: booze, don’t at least some of the restrictions/taxes ostensibly reflect societal costs related to alcohol consumption, and a desire to control distribution - such as to minors?
(Not saying those efforts are terribly successful, but not indefensible goals IMO.)
You may already be aware, but Alamo Drafthouse filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and reorganization last year and just yesterday ArcLight theaters closed, in case you really do have that billion dollars sitting around.
And I remember hearing even before the pandemic that AMC theaters were in financial trouble. I thought there was interest from Amazon in taking them over, which might be interesting; imagine special film presentations that require an Amazon Prime membership to attend.
I think dividing beer/wine to grocery stores and liquor in liquor stores is a good compromise. One reason I don’t support liquor in grocery stores is that it seems like it would make it harder for alcoholics to stay sober. Certainly they can still get drunk on beer/wine, but it’s not going to be as easy as picking up a 5th of vodka at every corner quickie-mart.
I was in New Mexico a while back and noticed they had liquor in convenience stores. Behind every convenience store cashier is a wall of liquor bottles. For someone who is struggling with alcohol consumption, that kind of availability seems like it would present a lot of temptation when doing something benign like paying for gas.
Something that could be classed as disruption of the car dealership market here in the UK, is an online company called ‘carwow’, which allows you to specify the precise spec of car you want, and the app then contacts hundreds of car dealers nationwide for you. They basically pitch a price to you, and you just pick the price you want - no haggling.
Doesn’t seem to be a problem anywhere in Europe.
In the US we can do something similar, but it may be done manually. About a decade ago we purchased a car by emailing the local dealers’ “Internet Sales Dept” with the specifics of what we wanted and how much we wanted to pay. The first one that got back to us got the sale. We did have to go to the dealer, but since the deal was already done there was none of the usual bullshit and no haggling. The internet sales manager was not a turd and even thru in a cargo mat and the mud guards at no additional charge. Things have probably evolved a bit since then.
Does carwow charge a fee?
Never really thought much about limiting access, but on occasion it has stricken me as odd when I pull off the expressway on a road trip to get gas in the middle of nowhere, and there are coolers/shelves stocked w/ beer/wine/booze. Sure, I know SOMEONE lives even in the middle of nowhere, but seems perfectly suited to encourage drinking and driving.
Of course, I’ve heard of places that have drive thrus where you can buy mixed drinks… 
I routinely get mail-order wine, and never thought about getting booze that way, but checking a couple of online stores, it looks like Texas does allow it. I went through to the checkout screen to test it just in case they would not process the order because of my Texas address.
The only problem was the cost. A bottle of cheap brandy(I have one in my pantry with a price sticker on it so I could compare) cost the same $12.99 that I paid last November, but with the cheapest shipping(don’t need booze fast! 
) it came to $31.00. Free shipping was offered only for purchases over $150, IIRC. I think that might be why it’s not more well known. People routinely buy wine by the case, but unless they’re planning one hell of a New Year’s eve party very few buy a whole case of liquor.
When I moved from Maryland to Texas I was pleasantly surprised that beer and wine were sold in grocery and convenience stores. In Maryland (unless it has changed since the early '90s), even beer was only available in liquor stores. But I agree with RealityChuck that keeping the hard stuff in liquor stores allows for the continued availability of a greater variety.
Years ago when Pennsylvania had legislation working that would eventually allow growler sales of beer, a friend of mine told me he’d be selling minigrowlers. I stopped by his place where he sold mixed six packs and had two taps, but no actual bar.
He initially had little plastic jugs (quart iced tea jugs) that he would fill with beer, then seal with a cap. He had guys lined up to buy these take-out quarts of beer after work. I couldn’t see the attraction, since by the time you got home the beer would be warm.
Then I saw what was up. Sitting in his parking lot I watched guys leaving with their quarts. Every single one of them glanced around after getting into their vehicle, then opened the lid. Aha!
You make it sound like temptation was something evil. Living in Europe, where you can buy alcohol in every shop (well, not in Sweden and really not in Iceland, I admit, but in most countries) people are not drinking all the time, especially not before driving. Alcohol in a shop is not a temptation, it is an offer most people refuse.
A disruption I would root for: Religion. Bring one on without the guilt and without the remorse of conscience.
Could be, but I’d think it’s either that the county you’re in currently is a wet one surrounded by dry ones. Or, someone on a road trip grabs a bottle for whenever they get to their motel for the evening
Really? Most sites I’ve gone to won’t let me do it.
Looks like maybe IF a winery has a specific sort of Texas permit, they can ship directly to consumers, but distilleries, breweries, and out-of-state liquor retailers can’t do it.
I totally disagree. Sorta. The grocery stores around here have quite a large selection of single malts, for example. Much larger (and cheaper) than any of the non-warehouse liquor stores at least. Pretty good wine selections, too. The only place that has a better selection is 10 times the size of the stand-alone liquor store. Bevmo and Liquorama are monsters. Your average independent liquor store isn’t going to stock a wider variety because they have very limited room for stock. So they will devote massive space to shit that sells. Period.
The first time I did this it worked out pretty well. They tried to add a documentation fee to the price we agreed on, but the email clearly said that the price included the documentation fee. They took it off and we were all set.
The second and third times, each lowest price dealer we went into with an e-mail from the internet sales department wanted to tack on stuff. Just a couple of hundred dollars, but I was pissed and refused to talk at all. We had to go with the second lowest price quoted in each case who actually honored the prices quoted. In one case we would have actually paid less at the first dealer, but I was not going to reward them for playing games.
I’ve also gotten some amazingly abusive emails from dealers who refused to quote prices on email. I was tempted to post them on social media, but decided that not buying from them was enough. Basically accusing me of trying to take food out of the mouths of their children by breaking a business model that has served customers well for a hundred years.
Manufacturing, especially small scale and bespoke manufacturing.
It is possible now to design, build, and test prototypes in your own home for next to nothing. You can send your files to services to have your parts printed in many different metals and other materials.
This is already impacting collectors and restorers. Where an aftermarket hood badge for a rare car could set you back hundreds of dollars before, you can design one now in a 3D cad program, print a prototype in plastic to check fit and finish, then send out for a stainless or chrome metal version.
My wife has a rare car, and we needed a suspension piece that is no longer available. Our auto shop made a call, and we had a new manufactured part in hand in a few days for surprisingly cheap. That could never have happened 10 years ago.
This is slowly going to be extended into full distributed supply chains. Add in Chinese manufacturing in bulk, and you can be the designer and seller of a new product from your home. The market is already flooding with such products.
One industry where this is happening fast is in prosthetics. I have 3D printed a prosthetic hand, and with 30 bucks in parts I can turn it into a muscle-controlled functional hand - something that would have cost many thousands of dollars not long ago.
All of these technologies are getting better rapidly. I now have two 3D printers, a desktop CNC mill with a 5W laser cutter/engraver, and the total cost is well under $1000. Fusion 360 is a full featured CAD/CAM package, and it’s free until you are actually profitable, then it’s very reasonably priced. The amount of engineering power an individual can now have is amazing.
Yes, a great explanation. Thank you.
And there are many more that sell beer & wine in groceries as well as liquor stores, and they STILL stock the high end and low end stuff. To the point that in some areas, there are specific beer & wine stores, even though groceries sell beer and wine already.
Adding liquor to that would just mean that you would buy your Cuervo Gold at the grocery, while you’d buy your Don Julio 1942 at the liquor store, because grocery stores aren’t going to carry that. Stuff in the middle would probably depend on what the grocery stores carry.