- Mar 18, 2012
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I knew MA had weird alcohol laws since my parents are from there but I didn't realize it was so common? Like omgitssydthekid said its unrestricted in MO. We do have liquor stores but I'm not sure why since you can sell all that in the grocery stores, gas stations, etc. I guess maybe they have more options? I've never been in one lol but we have several including one with drive through and delivery options. Also from what I've heard the mildly sketchy ones seem to be easy on fakes whereas grocery stores aren't. We have grocery stores with a whole separate section where all the alcohol is and they have a ton so I'm not sure how much more a liquor store would have.Literally my least favorite part about living in NC. I want to run for office just on that platform alone.
NC has some of the strangest alcohol laws I've ever seen. You can buy beer and wine in supermarkets, but liquor only in liquor stores (which is the same as SC). It's different here in that liquor stores are owned by the government. All the ones around here are called ____________ County ABC. In SC any ole person can open up their own liquor store. They do close at 7pm in SC though and I believe 9pm here. Drink discounts have to be all day in NC. Occasionally this works out in your favor, like certain places having $3 drafts all day or something. But the discounts are never as steep as they would be for a Happy Hour. (In SC it would usually mean like, $2 domestics and half priced wine or something.) Happy Hours in NC usually means half priced appetizers and IT'S FALSE ADVERTISING, TBH.
The weirdest rule though is the membership rule. They really just started enforcing it, but it's been on the books forever. If an establishment makes 30% more off of alcohol than they do off food, you have to be a "member" of that establishment. Meaning you sign in a book, sometimes pay $1, become a member and get like 2-3 "plus ones" every time you go. You have to show your membership card or have them look you up at the door each time. Pretty much any bar in the country makes over 30% more off of alcohol, so this is really taking over. My wallet is full of membership cards to bars, tap rooms, sports bars and even some restaurants. Breweries don't count under this for some reason, so I'm thankful for that. I've lost a bunch of cards so thankfully most places let you show a picture of it on your phone or look you up. Or I just come in as someones plus one. This is literally such a pointless and annoying law. Seriously, WHAT does it do?
I think I want to create an app that organizes all of your membership cards. But it's probably already in existence like every good idea seems to be.
I suck and don't know how to double quote on the app so double post sorry.
But they're really similar, or sound very similar, to a wawa! The new ones (the gen 3 style) have all the same kind of stuff, I'm not sure about the old quiktrips though.
And I only know they're called gen 3 because I dated a guy a worked at one [emoji23]
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according to their locator CoMo doesn't have one. I definitely wish we did!!
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