Texas has some weird alcohol laws; how about your state?

[higgins]

I've only been to WV a few times, but I remember having to stock up because the stores were closed on Sundays. They did sell liquor at the 7-Eleven though, which I found unusual.

[SFS]

I've never lived any place where they DID sell whiskey on Sunday (retail.)

You might want to move to Florida. Though we don't have Larceny.

[MyOldKyDram]

Lexington has Sunday sells, but the city up the road does not. Such is KY.

[PaulO]

Indiana has some odd laws. Number one is; no retail sales on Sunday. You can buy all the drinks you want from a restaurant or bar that sells food on Sunday. My brother in law told me about a bar in Bloomington that has a Hot Pocket in their freezer. It's a $40 item on the menu in a dive. It allows them to be open on Sunday Liquor stores and some bars sell cold beer to go. Grocery stores and drug stores sell beer, but can't sell it cold. Somehow, some grocery stores sell cold wine. Liquor stores are not allowed to sell cold soft drinks. Most liquor stores have a soda pop machine outside by their front door.

Has anyone ever challenged the Sunday laws as unconstitutional? It seems like the government establishing an official religion. On the other hand, if they won't allow liquor sales, how can they allow tobacco and lottery on Sunday?

[Enoch]

Indiana has some odd laws. Number one is; no retail sales on Sunday. You can buy all the drinks you want from a restaurant or bar that sells food on Sunday. My brother in law told me about a bar in Bloomington that has a Hot Pocket in their freezer. It's a $40 item on the menu in a dive. It allows them to be open on Sunday Liquor stores and some bars sell cold beer to go. Grocery stores and drug stores sell beer, but can't sell it cold. Somehow, some grocery stores sell cold wine. Liquor stores are not allowed to sell cold soft drinks. Most liquor stores have a soda pop machine outside by their front door.

Has anyone ever challenged the Sunday laws as unconstitutional? It seems like the government establishing an official religion. On the other hand, if they won't allow liquor sales, how can they allow tobacco and lottery on Sunday?

[squire]

On my first job the senior partner told me, "Sometimes the law means what it says and sometimes it means what we make it say".

[PaulO]

:soapbox: I can't think of anything else that can't be sold one day a week. I guess it iritates me when I visit friends or family in other towns, and all the stores I would like to visit are closed, because it's Sunday. I'm talking about places that have much better selection than what I have nearby. If a business chooses to be closed on Sunday (on their own) that doesn't bother me at all.

[tyerod]

No Sunday sales in Indiana. Liquor stores are closed and the big boxes/CVS etc cant sell. Most either rope off their alcohol aisles or post signs. Exceptions for restaurants bars wineries and brewpubs.

Used to live in S. Chicago suburbs. Illinois didn't sell booze on Sundays till noon. Around 11:45 I would get the call from my Highland, IN friends basically stating "You know what day it is". I did volenteer work at Mammoth Cave National Park in KY. Still many dry counties down there. Mammoth Cave NP was in one of them. Nearest liquors store was 40 miles away in Bowling Green. Made that drive many times. In Colorado liquor stores couldn't be open on Sundays until a few years ago. Convenience and grocery stores only sell 3.2 and no wine or spirits. A person, or company, can only have one liquor license. California, for being the backward ass libby state it is, seem to be the most normal to me. I was surprised to walk down the whiskey, wine and beer isle when I was out there.

[HighInTheMtns]

A person, or company, can only have one liquor license.

This is why Colorado has such great stores and such great bars. Gotta make good use of that one license.

[jburlowski]

Has anyone ever challenged the Sunday laws as unconstitutional? It seems like the government establishing an official religion. On the other hand, if they won't allow liquor sales, how can they allow tobacco and lottery on Sunday?

The courts have consistently found these sorts of laws as constitutional under the 21st Amendment.

[sailor22]

It's surprising that one of the groups lobbying for mandatory closed Sundays in Ga. is the Liquor Retailers. Their reasoning is that there is a finite demand and that demand will buy the same amount in six days as it would in seven. Being open a seventh day wouldn't generate any more revenue but would require them to pay the help an extra day. Less profit.

Thinking about it, the people most effected are the travelers and visitors who are surprised by the closed Sunday rule. The locals who drink plan on it and it isn't much of an inconvenience.

[callmeox]

For the same reason, many Sunday retail permit holders in Ohio are not open.

I like that it is the retailers decision and not a statewide mandate.

[MyOldKyDram]

Right. There's nothing saying that you have to be open. If you don't want to be for whatever reason, or it's simply not worth it then close up shop on Sunday. Easy enough.

[callmeox]

I think there's an unspoken reason as well when retailers fight against Sunday sales. They don't want to spread 6 days of sales across 7 days of business *and* they don't want the guy up the street to steal sales by taking the plunge into Sunday retail.

[squire]

As a consumer I want them open for my convenience, if I owned a store I wouldn't like to be forced to stay open 7 days a week. Guess who would wind up with the Sunday shift.

[wadewood]

Texas liquor stores are also closed on Sunday and the retailers fight to keep it this way. If these retailers think total sales would not increase they are wrong; http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/01/smallbusiness/blue_laws.fsb/index.htm. They will increase 4-6%. This has been consistent with repeals of blue laws for retail items to booze.

The other blue law we still have in Texas is Car Dealerships. Interestingly, they have to close either Sat. or Sunday. Most close on Sunday, but a few select to stay open on Sunday.

[squire]

Liquor is just such a touchy subject with so many well meaning but misguided folks. I once had a senior State Senator tell me over drinks that if he voted for any law favoring liquor on a Friday every pulpit in his home town would denounce him on Sunday.

[ILLfarmboy]

The courts have consistently found these sorts of laws as constitutional under the 21st Amendment.

Edited March 16, 2013 by ILLfarmboy

[gblick]

-rebates and/or coupons offered by manufacturers are prohibited

[wadewood]

So that's why we didn't get the rebate on Larceny!

And I still haven't tried it..

actually, I did get the HH rebate; they sent me a crisp $5 bill in the mail. Guess they have not read TX liquor laws.

[squire]

Then I wouldn't tell 'em.

[ebo]

PA's are pretty simple., If you want a good bottle, travel to another state or order it online from the only vendor allowed to ship to the state (which is the state itself)