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In Texas you can buy beer after 12 noon on Sundays, but no liquor on Sundays. There are fewer and fewer dry areas, but they still exist. It’s a crazy quilt of counties, cities and other political subdivisions, and even JP precincts can vote for local option.

 

Tennessee started allowing beer sales on Sundays in the mid 90s. You could only buy beer in grocery stores. Wine was sold at liquor stores, and they were closed on Sundays.
A few years ago, the grocery lobby got wine in grocery stores. The tradeoff was liquor stores got to start opening on Sunday. You can buy beer at any time on Sunday, but wine sales are off until 10 a.m.
In North Carolina, you can't buy beer or wine at the grocery store until after 10 or 11.

 

I don't drink either, just always thought it odd that in Indiana you can't buy cold beer at grocery stores, convenience stores etc. as it is just stacked on pallets. Cold brew is at the liquor stores.

 

I took job in Texas in the mid 80s. The first Sunday I was there, the guy in front of me in the store line bought a couple of 12-packs of beer. Having just moved, I needed a laundry basket, but the clerk said, “I can’t sell that to you on Sunday.” I didn’t think she was serious. She was because Texas blue laws at the time would let you buy beer on Sunday, but not household goods.

 

That's hilarious.

Hilariously nutballs, I mean.

 

My sister will tell you it’s because she and her friends lobbied the fuck out of the Leg on behalf of Trader Joe’s Green Hills store to get that to happen.

 

In PA I think you still have to go to a beer distributor if you want more than a certain amount (144 oz?).

 

Apparently it's 196 ounces. The Inquirer has a good breakdown for the weird alcohol laws.

https://www.inquirer.com/philly-tips/pennsylvania-liquor-laws.html

 

This way, the "basket of deplorables" couldn't be quickly gathered.