I heard a radio ad for Coors promoting a special summer packaging deal which will include custom decals made by Jesse James’ West Coast Choppers in all 12 packs of Coors and Coors Light.
At the end of the ad they say “offer not valid in Kentucky and Texas.”
I could understand if it were some sort of promotional offer involving sending in proof of prchase or if it were a contest of some sort, but it sounds like the decal will be in all twelve packs and will be free. Why would TX and KY exclude such a thing? Because it might encourage buying more beer? Surely they’re not that clueless. Why would they be the only two states to do so? I don’t recall legalese excluding these two states specifically before - it’s usually more states, or HI and AK only. My only guess is that these two states don’t allow free stuff in anything you purchase, but I don’t understand why that would be, nor why TX and KY would care so much.
Offers that aren’t valid in AK or HI are generally not valid because of the increased cost of shipping things from the continental US, not because of any special laws in those states. I suspect that the restriction has something to do with not being able to give away things for free with alcohol in those states.
In Canada (and this may be true in some states as well), you can include free promotional items in cases of beer, but you can’t require people to buy beer in order to get the free item. That means the promotions are always ‘no purchase necessary’, and you can request the item by mail without having to buy beer. You do have to be old enough to purchase alcohol in order to request the item, but you don’t have to actually buy anything. I guess the idea is to stop people from buying excessive amounts of alcohol in order to ‘collect all 8’.
It depends on who you mean by “they.” If you mean the general populace, then sure. There a lot of Protestants who are against facilitating the sale of alcohol and they’re the ones that pushed for the laws a half century ago or more. If by “they” you mean the state legislators and senators, then no–they’re smart enough to know that no one has ever been run out of office for outlawing stickers in six packs but they could lose a helluva lot of votes if they did allow it and someone made an issue out of it.
I think Texas has a law stating that bars and restraunts aren’t allowed to have “Happy Hours” any more. They can still set out the free food and all that but they can’t sell the alcohol at a discounted price.
The details on this are VERY vague to me so I could be completely wrong on this.
Even still, this doesn’t answer your question but it does certainly follow your line of logic about not encouraging people to drink.
Various states have quirky alcohol laws. Indiana, for example, says you cannot use a coupon to get a better price on booze. You can’t give alcohol as a raffle prize. You know those “if you can drink two of these suicidal drinks and still stand up, they’re free” deals? Not in Indiana. A restaurant here briefly had a deal where if you drank ten different kinds of beers over time, you got a t-shirt. Fifteen, and you got your own mug on the wall. It turned out, that’s illegal here.
So, let’s raise a glass. Let’s drink to what all toasts are drunk to…drunkenness.