I say I’m going to the LQ.
I’m in Michigan and I say both. I tend to think of party stores as slightly different than liquor stores. What I call a party store is more like a drug store without the pharmacy, they have food and usually can only sell beer and wine. Liquor stores have hard liquor(obviously) and generally have a pretty sparse inventory outside of booze.
Casey, as someone who has lived in several states, I have to say that PA has the strangest, and most inconvenient, rules about where certain types of alcohol can be purchased. Wasn’t it once true you could only by six pack at bars?
There are ABC stores in Virginia as well as the Carolinas. However, I just call it a “liquor store” most of the time.
Yup, heading over to Winooski to hit the bevvy. Good times. (UVM '99)
Well, they both sound pretty much the same if you say it quickly enough. But my own pronunciation (i’m from Australia originally) has always been closer to the first one.
Here in Nova Scotia they used to be commonly called the LC (for Liquor Commision, as all stores were government run) but that seems to have largely disappeared. Most people just call’em Liqour Stores now.
I usually say liquor store or state store (in PA the state runs them) but the state has made an effort to have them called Spirit Shoppes
Yeah, that’s what I call them too (in Ontario). I usually say “LC”, sometimes I lengthen it to “LCBO” if I’m feeling generous. 
That stands for Liquor Control Board of Ontario - which is why I never say the whole thing … who wants to say that mouthful?!
Minnesota chiming in. Liquor store. Never heard any different.
Here in NC I’ve heard many people use the euphemism “Aunt Betsy’s Candy Store” to refer to the ABC places. Such cutesy-wutesy designations are not for my family, who just say “the liquor store.”
In Finland they’re called Alko!
That’s what i call a liquor store
There are no liqour stores in Germany (as you can buy alcohol in almost any store that sells drinks at all). But there’s "Trinkhalle " (drinking hall).
In UK:
the off-license
the offie
the wine shop
Haddows
Threshers
Oddbins
Well, another one to add to the UK terms list,
Im not sure how widespread this is, but round where I live they’re
they’re sometimes refered to as ‘selling out shops’, I’m not sure why but I think it might be similar to the off license thing, with out of licensed premises instead of off.
Bottleshop or bottle-o
Or with a slightly humourous bent, the grog shop.
Or, here in Canberra, the supermarket.
Here it’s the bottle shop or the really big ones are the wholesalers.
They are called package stores here in New Mexico. Also, one can buy beer, wine, and liquor in grocery and convenience stores here, which is very handy. Drive-Up package stores were in existence until just a few years ago!
In NY we had liquor stores.
Once, when we were staying in the Pittsburgh area, we had to buy a six-pack at a local bar.
Always called it the packy. I thought everyone did, until I needed to find a place to buy beer somewhere in the Midwest. Poor guy that I asked was very confused.
In the DC area, we always just called it the liquor store.
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There’s a place near my old house called “B. K. Miller Super Liquor”. No joke. The weird thing is that it’s also a very good place to get meat, so people who’ve never touched a drop of alcohol go there all the time. They don’t seem to have a website, though.
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I live in the DC area and have lived in the District and surrounding counties/municipalities.
ABC store is specifically a state owned liquor store. Fairfax County used to have no privately-owned liquor stores, but that’s apparently not the case any more.
In Maryland, it varies from county to county (Montgomery Co. has ABC stores, Prince George’s and DC have privately-owned liquor stores; the busiest ones are the ones that are right near the Montgomery County line). There was a restaurant/liquor store right on the Montgomery/PG County line (somewhere between Burtonsville and Laurel) and the owners, an elderly couple, went to court and begged to have the whole property retroceded to PG County; they would have been unable to operate or sell the place had Montgomery flexed its muscles.
I grew up in Fairfax County where off-premisis liquor could only be sold through state-owned ABC stores, but beer and wine could be sold practically anywhere, including most gas stations (This may no longer be the case; I barely notice since I seldom drink any more, but I notice some privately-owned booze supermarkets called Total Beverage real close to the Fairfax County line). After college, I lived in Montgomery County where beer and wine licenses are apparently a lot harder to come by (Most supermarkets don’t sell any kind of alcohol in Montgomery Co.).