Happy Repeal Day

[bjhowell]

Today marks the 80th anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition through the passage of the 21st Amendment to the Constitution.

[oke&coke]

I'm glad I didn't have to live through that exercise in stupidity.

[TunnelTiger]

Wish I could have gotten my Grandfathers recipe for bath tub gin and my wives for moonshine. Both of them separated by over a thousand miles made a lot of it to hear our Fathers talk of it.

[Richnimrod]

A very nice, and entirely appropriate sentiment, I must say. Thanx for the reminder. :grin:

[PaulO]

Around the country, there are still plenty of "blue laws", the remnants of prohibition. :bs: I read recently that Indiana may put repeal of no Sunday sales up for a vote. :duel:

[mosugoji64]

Hope you get Sunday sales this time around, Paul. Last time it was up for a vote, there was a great amount of pushback from retailers claiming that they would go out of business if they had to take on the cost of being open on Sunday. That one made no sense to me.

Now that I'm in AZ, I make it a point to do my liquor shopping on Sunday whenever possible. :grin:

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[oke&coke]

Yeah really is dumb. Unless the law says MUST be open then don't open on Sunday if you don't want.

[tanstaafl2]

Hope you get Sunday sales this time around, Paul. Last time it was up for a vote, there was a great amount of pushback from retailers claiming that they would go out of business if they had to take on the cost of being open on Sunday. That one made no sense to me.

Now that I'm in AZ, I make it a point to do my liquor shopping on Sunday whenever possible. :grin:

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Retailers I have talked to have said that Sunday hours have cost money at least to start with. They didn't get that many extra shoppers but instead the same people spread their purchasing over 7 days instead of 6 because they knew it would be open. But the cost of being open (employees, electricity, etc) went up to be open on that extra day.

Not being open is thought to potentially hurt you if your typical customer goes elsewhere on that Sunday and then starts to make the new location their regular stop. Or so it is claimed.

I haven't seen any books to confirm this but it sounds plausible.

Seems like the majority of employees I have talked to don't like it either since somebody has to work that day instead of knowing it was always going to be an off day!