1 Bitchin', and I'm enjoying the fact that grocery stores are giving the state liquor board a thumb in the eye like this.  I'm surprised Giant hasn't jumped on the bandwagon, yet.

2 I don't know why Giant's not in on this - the big Giant by me has a little deli/hot food area just like Weis and Wegmans do.  Maybe the license hasn't gone through yet. 

I can't wait until Sheetz shoves through selling it at all the stores. 

3 Up until now youse guys couldn't buy beer at grocery stores?

And I thought I lived in a fucked-up state.

4 We can still only buy two six packs of beer, or what is it, two bottles of wine at a time at the grocery stores.  You're very limited on what you can get at the grocery store.  Basically, every liquor store in PA is owned by the state, beer is sold by the case at distribution centers, with the exception of sub & six pack type stores, which are basically small sit-down restaurants (most of these places sell hoagies, subs or sandwiches, a large percentage of what they make is take-out) where one can buy a small amount of beer, wine coolers or malt liquor (Colt .45 being alex's drink of choice when she's chasing women with her friend Billy Dee Williams, because as we all know, it works every time!).

Wegmans successfully argued that because they have a significant sit-down food court type thing that is off to the side of the grocery store, that the restaurant qualifies under the sub & six arrangement.  Now Sheetz is trying to make a similar argument, though they may have some trouble because they don't have seating (not like a lot of sub&sixes see their seating utilized, but that's PA liquor law for you).  Sheetz is sort of like Wawa, without the shame of being a Philly thing hanging over it.  

5 See, that's why I'm surprised Giant hasn't gotten on board.  They've got a nice little sit-down restaurant-y area that'd surely qualify.

6 Sheetz is a great 2am drunk stop for sammiches.  It is literally the only convenience store type place where one can get food that is both semi-tasty and won't give you intestinal parasites.  (I double-dog dare you to try that at a Uni-Mart.)

Four-dollar 12-inch subs, suckas.  Not the same as your local pizza & sub shop with bread baked on-premises, (preferably operated by a first or second generation sicilian), but certainly passable eats.

If memory serves, Sheetz was the first to start pushing for a six-pack license.

7 If memory serves, Sheetz was the first to start pushing for a six-pack license.

Yup, took it all the way to the PA Supremes.  I love Sheetz so damn much.  Seriously, icees and sammiches and every kind of bottled ice tea and chips and mmmmmmmmmm. 

8 Okay, California sucks all kinds of ways, but you can buy beer and liquor (and as much of it as you want) at just about any grocery store, convenience store, or pharmacy that cares to get a liquor license.  At least one of the grocery chains (Albertsons) around here even has keg rentals.

The fact that you foax in PA have to go through so much bullshit in order to buy and sell booze in ordinary locations makes me feel slightly better about living in this clusterfuck of a state.

9 STL, being home to a shitload of Germans (and A-B), pretty much allows all kinds of booze to be sold damn near anywhere: grocery stores, gas stations, Walgreens used to (but stopped. Fuckers.), those dirt cheap gas and smokes stores, meat stores/butcher shops, liquor stores, bait shops, ethnic cultural societies (why do you think I belong to the German Cultural Society? It sure as hell ain't for the lederosen.), etc.

In fact, when I travel to VA, MI, IN, etc., I am stupefied that finding booze can sometimes be laborious.

Fucking nanny state! Accomodate my wishes now!!!  

10 Wain, wait, wait. Booze is hard to find in Michigan and Indiana? Both states have it in all the grocery stores and most gas stations as well as stand alone liquor stores. If it is laborious to find a Walmart, then you, sir, are quite lazy.

Now Minnesota, with their state owned liquor stores, can be laborious.

Although, I did just remember that you can't buy booze on a Sunday in Indiana. God damn fascists.

11 The perverse thing is that there's a beer distributor lobbying interest in PA that wants to keep the status quo. 

PA started allowing beer distributors to stay open on Sunday, but a lot of them don't want too because they're cannibalizing their own sales that would normally go to six pack shops (their customers) and they have to stay open another day.

Ahh, to be a state sanctioned oligopoly...

12

...you can't buy booze on a Sunday in Indiana.

Just not by the bottle.  You can buy it by the drink at restaurants, sporting events, etc.  So if you run out at home, you have to drive somewhere (and then drive back).

Screwy law brought to you by MADD - Mothers Assisting Drunk Driving.