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Because I'm curious: do you take your kids into the liquor store?
Someone asked on FB--most said no, though a couple said yes. Some people said it was illegal or had been asked to leave.
I wouldn't attempt to take my teenager into one, but I've never had anyone say anything or refuse to sell to me with my kids in tow. I don't take them into the shady ones (hello, that's why those have drive thru windows), but I take them into the Whole Food's wine store and sometimes we go into Liquor Barn (basically the walmart of liquor stores).
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Re: Because I'm curious: do you take your kids into the liquor store?
Ha! I was 8 months pregnant and had DD with me the last time I went to the liquor store! I needed vodka for my homemade vodka cream sauce. I bought a small bottle. Of course, it was wrapped in a little brown bag. I tossed it into my purse and then headed into the grocery store.
My purse was a little full, so the top of the bottle kept popping out of my purse! Klassy!
The person on FB is from Indiana, so it makes sense why people were saying it was illegal.
Our liquor stores have signs that say that people under 21 are not allowed in the liquor stores, so I assume as the child gets older, they're more likely to not sell me alcohol? IDK, maybe I'm wrong. I've seen kids older than mine in the liquor stores.
Another question--do they not sell beer in grocery stores in Indiana?
Illegal?! Is this true? I'm going to have to look that one up.
Yes, I take my daughter. Not often, but on occasion. I had this conversation with a family member who was completely mortified that I've taken her. I don't get it. SHe knows we drink, just as I knew my parents drank. Why would I hide the purchasing of said drink when I don't hide the actual drinking of it?
And what's the difference between going to the liquor store or purchasing it at the grocery store or Costco?
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No, but only because I am concerned about them breaking something.
Ours is only 3.2% beer in grocery stores and gas stations. For all the hard stuff and real beer, have to go to a liquor store.
My first thought, too! Damn puritanical MA laws!
Damn MA. Drive through packies would make my life a million times easier!
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Indiana? <raises hand>
So yeah, no kids in a liquor store. No drive through liquor store windows. No alcohol sales on Sundays.* I got escorted out of a liquor store when ds was a tiny newborn because I had him with me. The manager did tell me, however, that I could stand at the door with the baby, get an employee's attention and have them get whatever I needed. I just couldn't cross the threshold into the actual store.
*except for a recent law that allows local breweries and wineries to sell on Sundays for tourism reasons. We have an awesome brewery five minutes away so on Sundays we can now go get a growler of beer filled and bring it home. We have a winery five minutes in the opposite direction. Score!
It is only very recently in Ontario that some grocery stores have kiosks that will sell wine (and a very poor selection of wine to boot). Buying booze and beer means going to a liquor or beer store for us too.
Our liquor laws are brutal. Not to mention how pricey the booze is!
Yes, in Wicomico, also Montgomery County and some others it is different. I've seen beer in a Chipotle in Montgomery County. I am in Baltimore County- very strict!
Exactly this. I can just see DS knocking over a bottle display. I make DH go.
Ditto!
No. We can buy wine in grocery stores (except on Sunday) and have drive thru beverage barns.
Plus, my mom stocks up @ the Class 6 store on base and shares. Told ya, she's a great mom : )
In Indiana there is all forms of acohol/wine/beer in the groceries...just nothing cold. (same with convenience stores and Walgreens/CVS type stores).
The only place to buy cold is at the liquor stores.
Also - can't buy any alcohol on Sundays or holidays (incl. election days).
There were 2 drive-thru liquor stores in the small town near where I grew up....not a big deal to me then, of course, but I'd love one of those now!
It's illegal here, too. Anyone under 21 is not allowed to even enter a liquor store or bar in our state. In fact, there are restuarants that doors where you can enter through the bar, and you are not allowed to bring your kids through that door even to get to the main restuarant. You have to go around to the other door.
Now where I grew up, alcohol is sold in grocery stores, so it is obviously much different there. Kids are allowed in bars up until a certain time, too.
In some states, you have to go to a liquor store to purchase any kind of liquor. Grocery stores don't carry wine here.
To answer the original question, I never bring my LOs to a liquor store. It's easy enough to have DH pick up whatever we want on the way home from work. I have gone pregnant though.
The registers are set to recognize it's outside of the allowed times to sell. I used to forget sometimes when I worked at the grocery store in college only to hear this ear piercing "beeeeep".
Jetta --- they sell individual, cold beers, wine coolers and indiv mini bottles of wine here.
some stores but ropes or whatever across the ends of the aisles with signs like "No alcohol purchases on Sunday".....but you must show ID, and even in the u-scans, the cashier must enter their 'code' or whatever. So, it's just that you can't buy it. I usually shop at Meijer (similar to Walmart, only in the midwest), and they don't rope off anything. And I must say, they do not skimp on selection.....the wine selection is probably bigger than any liquor store I've seen.
Also, I take my kids in that aisle nearly weekly, and I've never had anyone mention I can't.
LOL! I actually went nuts on spring break in college buying little individual bottles of liquor in South Carolina.
They have some weir liquor law there, also......like you can't buy hard liquor between midnight and 6 p.m. or something? there was something like that.....a limit on hard liquor between certain times.
I'm still trying to figure out why Wisconsin, of all places, does not have drive through liquor stores. That is genius.
Anyway, I take my kids into the liquor store. The one we go to most often is actually also a deli and meat market. Its not wierd to see kids in bars here, though, so I've never had anyone give me a look about it.
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In CT we can't buy after 9 or on Sunday and holidays. The sell only beer in the grocery store, and they hang a locked tarp over the beer section at night/on Sunday.
However, I can bring dd in the liquor store, and we do it often. She can also be in some bars as long as there is an adult with her. I guess we aren't all that strict.