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I moved from a western state where hard liquor is sold openly in the grocery stores, to an east-coast state with state-run liquor stores that have a monopoly on
by Telemakhos 5y ago
I moved from a western state where hard liquor is sold openly in the grocery stores, to an east-coast state with state-run liquor stores that have a monopoly on hard liquor. The east-coast state-run store prices are two-thirds of the western grocery store prices. Part of this is that the western state, despite having open sales, also imposed very high taxes, while the eastern state that restricts sales has low taxes.
In the end, the eastern state sold me more liquor at lower prices until I realized that I was drinking too much and quit. Everyone I knew back west drank; few do out east.
- bsenftner 5y agoI'm a new Colorado resident; I was quite surprised when I saw a full bar at many coffee shops. Asking what's up with the hard liquor, they said it was for shots in ones' coffee, want one? Wow! Growing up in Iowa, with State Liquor stores, and then school in Massachusetts where the puritan attitude still prevents liquor sales on Sunday, and then California where pot is preferred over booze... Colorado has shots in one's coffee from franchised coffee shops, what a world.
- tclancy 5y agoTo be clear, what started with a Puritan attitude in New England is only still in place because of lobbying from the liquor stores. No one really wants Blue Laws anymore except those who profit from them.