My local supermarket sells alcohol.
Perhaps slightly off topic: just yesterday I saw a discarded plastic vodka bottle by the curb.
Wonder if Thunderbird comes in plastic.
Yeah, but it’d be in a separate part of the same building (you have to exit the grocery checkouts to buy booze, or vice versa). There’s no alcohol just sitting there between the baked beans and the baby wipes, is there? Or is there? Never seen that in NSW.
That’s not strange around here. Most cheap “handle” (1.75l) booze around here comes in plastic bottles.
If beer came in plastic bottles, you could not smash it over the bar countertop and brandish it as a weapon.
True enough about the cider – but that 2litre plastic bottle stuff is rarely top-of-the-line.
As for plastic bottles at the footy – probably to minimise injuries when this happens.
As mentioned earlier, yes they do. Cider has the virtue of being both strong and cheap, and so is a favourite tipple of (a) winos and (b) teenagers hanging around bus stops. Neither market segment is likely to be too concerned with allowing the cider to mature for a few months until the apple flavour is fully complemented by the citrus and sandalwood undertones, or whatever, so they might as well ship the stuff in great big plastic bottles. I think they also sold cheaper brands of bitter in 2L plastic bottles, but maybe not in recent years.
Since this mostly seems to be anecdotes, I’ll pipe in that I’ve seen beer in those two litre plastice bottles. Mostly British, IIRC. Charles Wells, maybe?
There’s no separate exit or building. The booze is just sitting there at the front of the supermarket, next to the fruit and veg. You pay for it at the same checkouts with all the rest of your groceries.
That’s how we do it in California, though the liquor isn’t necessarily in front–it’s wherever the store managers decided to put it. However, until sometime in the early 1980s, all the alcohol used to be in separate area off to the side with its own checkout line. The good thing about that was that this checkout line was always the shortest and fastest in the store, and you could take any packaged item there, not just alchohol. You could also take the latter through the general checkouts.
I never figured out why all the liquor counters disappeared.
I guess I thought beer in plastic bottles was fairly common. I buy almost all my beer in plastic bottles although I generally buy either Budweiser or Miller because it’s cheap, and I’m cheap. Also, they sell beer in aluminum bottles now, so why don’t they sell plastic cans?
Sounds pretty close to illegal:
Liquor Act 1982 No 147
49C Grant of off-licence (retail)
(1) An application for, or to remove, an off-licence to sell liquor by retail that relates to a business whose primary purpose is not the sale of liquor may only be granted if the court is satisfied that:
(a) the sale of liquor under the licence will take place in an area of the premises (the liquor sales area) that is adequately separated from other areas of the premises in which other activities are carried on, and
(b) the principal activity to be carried on in the liquor sales area will be the sale of liquor.Yes, its a special packaging for alcoholics, students and people cooking hams, I can’t think of anyone else who would buy the stuff. Also available are ciders called “Laser” and “White Lightening”, which give you a good idea of the drinking process.
Thinking about it, they’re much like bottled Guinness without a widget, bought by a few people to drink and everyone else for Christmas cake/pudding.
A few councils in the UK have tried to force pubs to switch to plastic pint glasses for this very reason.
Spoilsports!
When they outlaw broken bottles, only outlaws will have broken bottles.
Milwaukee County sells plastic bottles of Miller Lite/MGD in its rec centers. I think that’s the only place I’ve seen plastic bottles of beer around (besides the beer guys at Miller Park), certainly never in the store…
Huh?
Every Pick n Save grocery store (all 3 zillion of them) and liquor store I’ve been in in Milwaukee sells Miller, Miller Lite, Budweiser, and Bud light in plastic bottles. Usually 16 ouncers in 6 pack form, but I also see 22 ounce Buds in the cooler sold individually.
Is it possible You’ve seen these in the cooler and thought they were actually glass?
They’re almost always right next to the six packs of glass bottles, same brand. So it would be real easy to not realize they were actually plastic.
Monarch Beer was the two-liter brand that I drank there from time to time. It ain’t Kvas.
Well, I guess I’m wrong! 
I suppose I’ve never really looked all that closely, and I thought those big bottles that they sell individually were glass (the big Miller Chill is). I’ll have to take a second look when shopping to see just how ubiquitous they are.
Yeah, all of the big bottles I see are glass, except the 22 ounce Buds, which I don’t see everywhere.
But the next time you’re in a P-n-S look at the 6 pack bottles carefully and you’ll see the 16 ounce plastic ones in there nestled between the glass bottle 6 packs. Especially Genuine Draft.
Having tried the plastic bottles I didn’t like it. But admittedly I’m biased as I don’t care much for Miller or Bud to begin with. But if I gotta drink it I’ll take a glass bottle.