this board is almost "moving"

hoping4septimus

since they changed the format.... now if we'll all contact our state senators and reps and tell them we want to buy wine at the grocery store and beer at the liquor store

dirtyred

good luck with that...the county that my parents live in will have a resolution on the ballot to allow the purchase of liquor by the drink.  It's like the apocolypse is coming; all the Bible thumpers are predicting drunks laying in the roads and the ruination of marriages. 

Quite entertaining.

VCHeditor

one day maybe TN will join us in the 21st century.

ad52905

LOL. 

michelle16_01

They passed the liquor by the drink law where I am from and no one is doing it.  Wonder why?

futuremrsstrickland

They tried to pass liquor by the drink in my county... and I def. voted for it... but we lost by 1 vote!!!!!! Ugh.... I mean what is the difference in you going to the store and buying beer?

ad52905

What is the liquor by the drink law?? I've never heard of such a thing. lol.

 

Arterr0

Liquor by the drink laws allow restaurants to serve alcohol, but generally beer/liquor/wine sales are not allowed in stores.  Some people refer to counties with such laws as "moist" (somewhere between wet and dry).

ad52905

LOL at moist.

Thanks for the explanation! (although it's still such a foreign concept to me).

amykevin

Why would you buy wine at a grocery store?

kimminick

amykevin:

Why would you buy wine at a grocery store?

 
For convenience sake 

Rebecca_Claire

I was in junior high or high school when Putnam County passed liquor by the drink.  They had letters to the editor claiming no restaurants were better then the Holiday Inn plus no one would come to Cookeville.  That was the "reasonable" argument, everyone else just said it was evil.  Anyone who's driven by Cookeville in the last decade can see that all kinds of restaurants came and the town did not burst into flames from the public insanity.  Liquor by the drink actually curbs public drunkeness because the restaurants are held liable for letting people get drunk.  You still can't buy alcohol other than beer at a store in Cookeville, though.

 Also, I went to college in St. Louis where not only do they have wine, they have any kind of liquor you want in the grocery store.  I just don't understand why you can have beer but not wine.  Makes no sense to me!

 

ad52905

Rebecca_Claire - CA is the same way. You can buy hard liquor at the grocery store. Also, liquor stores are open on Sundays.

AmyKevin - why wouldn't you want to buy wine at a grocery store? Maybe you like making two stops when you are out buying liquor/wine and beer, but most people want the convenience of being able to purchase everything under one roof.

MrsNash37212

I like buying my wine only at wine shops. Then again, I actually do whatever I can to support local vendors. I buy my beef from a farmer north of Nashville who gives every single cow a humane end. I buy my horse supplies from a shop that's a 25 minute drive from my house. And I get my vegetables across town at the Turnip Truck in East Nashville. Inconvenient? Sometimes. Worth it? Always. Every time one of my favorite little spots goes out of business (all the time now), it annoys the hell out of me. I like being on a first name basis with the wine shop owner and asking what he/she suggests, etc. If everyone can buy their favorite wine at the grocery store, why would they go to the wine guy? That's his bread and butter. One more face-to-face interaction down the drain, all in the name of convenience. Now Nashville can be just like everywhere else. We're the next Atlanta, yippee!!!