Your part of the world: What do you call the place where you buy liquor?

[bertha katzenengel]

Back home in CA, it was called "7-11" or "the grocery store." Alas, not here in Maryland.

And I never heard "package store" before I moved out here.

[LaurenG]

1. I call it Costco because thats where we go but Ohio calls them

"State Stores" which I'd never heard of before either.

[MaryBear]

16. Costco!

Me too, OhioBlues. But when I go to a liquor store I call it a liquor store. Although I don't go to liquor stores because the merchandise is overpriced.

[Nikia]

33. That is because they used to be state run

I believe that they were privatized under George Voinivich around 1990.

[Rambis]

75. self delete

[Rambis]

76. Dirty John's

Iowa City Iowa- The beer selection is stellar!

[LynzM]

2. Package store, or "packie"....

I'm in CT... we make "packie runs"!

[Arugula Latte]

26. I spent a summer in Boston once and I was so confused

when a guy said he was going to stop at a "packy." :WTF:

[terrya]

3. CVS Pharmacy

It used to be the Osco's just a couple of blocks from me. But CVS took over Osco's.

It has a pretty decent alcohol section.

Otherwise, here in Chicago, they're liquor stores.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. My dear bertha......

For a store that sells only liquor....we call it a liquor store...

But you can also get liquor in grocery stores......

In fact, there's hardly any stores where you can't find the stuff!

For instance, you can buy it in our local Sav-on drug store!

[bertha katzenengel]

7. yes . . . i know . . .

:cry: Can you imagine how weird it is to put beer on your grocery list and keep looking for the beer? Imagine my surprise the first time I asked "where's the beer?" in a grocery store.

It's weird. Culture shock. I doubt I'll get over some things.

[Pendrench]

73. I live in MD, too....but I thought that I saw someone buying beer in a

7-11 in Ocean City...and I'm pretty sure we were on the MD side (not in Delaware)...thought that was strange (of course I could have been mistaken) :)

Tim

[GoneOffShore]

5. In Philadelphia

the place where you buy liquor is called either New Jersey or Delaware but sometimes Maryland.

[Shakespeare]

6. BevMo!!

Beverages & More....the liquor/wine/beer superstore!

[bertha katzenengel]

10. Aaaaaaaah! I forgot about BevMo!

Prob'ly cause we don't have 'em. First time I went to BevMo on a trip home, I spent about $30 on minis. They're so cute and at BevMo they've got 'em all! :rofl: I felt like a kid in a candy store.

[Maine-ah]

8. here it really is the grocery store.

state gave up on selling liquor, and now the grocery stores sell it.

[Broken_Hero]

9. Liquer Store...

but sometimes I call it the Booze Depot...:)

[Calliope]

11. ABC Store in Virginia

Alcohol Beverage Control. You can buy beer and wine at grocery stores, however.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

46. Same here in NC. nt

[unsavedtrash]

55. yep. Same in Alabama

Are there still drive through beer stores up that way?

[southpaw]

65. Yep. In 'Bama its the ABC Store

[Bunny]

12. Pennsylvania. Home of the State Store.

Along with Utah, the only state where sale of liquor is done by the government. God Bless Prohibition!

I think they call them Wine and Spirit Shops now, but it will always be the State Store to me.

[ZombieNixon]

13. "Roommate"

But he buys it at the "liquor store," the "grocery store" or the "7-11". :D :+

[tjwmason]

14. Those for selling just alcohol are called "Off Licences"

As in they have a licence to sell alcohol for consumption off the premises (as opposed to pubs for consumption on the premises). But for the most part I buy mine at supermarkets, gin brands are the same everywhere afterall, and the wine variety in supermarkets is pretty good here these days - offies (as they are known) are easier to get to (there's 3 within walking distance of here) so useful for convenience.

[auntAgonist]

15. In Ontario you can ONLY buy liquor at

the LCBO. Liquor Control Board of Ontario. They are stores that sell only liquor and some imported beers. I'm not sure if they sell domestic beer.

The Beer Store is the place to buy beer.

Can't buy those anywhere else.

aA

[u4ic]

56. It's not Brewer's Retail any more?

Hi auntieA! :loveya:

[auntAgonist]

58. nope ..

it's called "The Beer Store" fancy schmancy name for brewers retail :)

oh and I guess maybe you can buy direct from micro-breweries but I don't know :)


:loveya:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

17. Here in Oklahoma it's a Liquor store.

My mother owns one. And they are called package stores occasionally here as well.
Duckie

[RoyGBiv]

48. Package store ...

"Package store" is the legal definition.

[Ptah]

18. I call it the pub.

:shrug:

A real dive.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

19. The Off Licence

Although that was back in the day before I became tee-total.

[scarlet_owl]

20. I call it my husband's job.

He manages a liqour store.

[skygazer]

21. "Home"

I manage a wine and liquor department - and I'm my own best customer. :hi:

[Mrs.Matcom]

22. West Street

Because that is the name of the liquor store, "West Street Liquor Store Friendliest Place on Earth" and imagine this, it is on West Street!!! :hi:

[Fenris]

23. State-controlled liquor distribution apparatus

But I speak only in jargon.

[Guava Jelly]

24. Mecca

And I bow to it often :)

[Fuzz]

25. Church

[tinfoil tiaras]

27. teh liquor store

we're a "wet" county...which means we can legally sell liquor, unlike "dry" counties, that cant sell any alchohol exept for beer...:wtf:

[datasuspect]

28. the bootlegger

[RebelOne]

29. Here in North Georgia, we have liquor warehouses,

where the prices are a whole lot cheaper than in liquor stores and I have 3 of them within a couple of miles, so that's where I shop for alcohol.

[BluePatriot]

30. Spec's! *hee*

ok, ok, Liquor store...

[Left Is Write]

31. Beer and wine are purchased at the grocery store.

Liquor is purchased at state-run liquor stores, simply called "Liquor Store" (meaning they don't have individual names Haskell's and Surdyk's in Minneapolis or the oh-so-cute Booze Mart in St. Paul).

This is Idaho.

In Minnesota, 3.2 beer can be purchased at grocery and convenience stores, but strong beer, wine, and liquor are purchased at liquor stores. Some liquor stores are municipal, many are privately owned.

I remember once arguing with someone in Wisconsin about the availability of strong beer in Minnesota. Even though he did not live in Minnesota and admitted he had never even been there, he tried to tell me (a lifelong resident of the state; I was 26 at the time) that the only beer available for purchase in Minnesota was 3.2 beer. I said that no, a beer bar without a full liquor license can serve only 3.2 beer and that grocery and convenience stores only carried 3.2 beer, and that 3.2 beer was served in sports stadiums. However, regular strong beer was sold in liquor stores and available at bars with full liquor licenses. He repeatedly told me I was wrong about that and I been consuming only 3.2 beer in Minnesota. :eyes:

[MissMillie]

32. Liquor in a liquor store... beer & wine in a packie

can't get liquor in a packie

[GOPisEvil]

34. On the military bases I grew up on, they were package stores.

Here in the Capital of Occupied Texas, it's just a liquor store.

[bridgit]

35. we do of course by it at the grocery store, refer to some liquor stores...

as 'liquor stores'; but we have a liquor store here in town we call 'the bodega' :shrug:

[greatauntoftriplets]

36. Binny's Beverage Depot.

:evilgrin:

It's a liquor store.

[philosophie_en_rose]

37. Canada

Duty-free shops are awesome.

Otherwise, it's just the plain old Washington State-run liquor store named "Liquor & Wine."

[Ann Arbor Dem]

38. We call them "party stores" around here.

[FILAM23]

39. Can not answer the poll

as all are availble

[yvr girl]

40. Liquor store, which are government run

Or 'Cold Beer and Wine' stores, which are not government run - but they are more expensive.

[Flaxbee]

41. In La Jolla, Ca. it was "Dick's Liquor",

where my date took me to show me his spread in Playgirl. I had no idea he was a model, or had posed nude. Didn't go out with him after that, but not b/c of the modeling.

Until I got to the mid-Atlantic/southern region, it would never ever have occurred to me that alcohol would be sold in state-controlled stores. In Virginia and NC, 'liquor' is sold in ABC stores.

[JVS]

42. Drive through!

[GirlinContempt]

43. the lc

[Xipe Totec]

44. Where I came from - Deposito

or, in English, Depot

Up here, where I is now, it's just called a liquor store

[1gobluedem]

45. Party store in Michigan

But you can also buy beer, wine, and liquor in drug stores and grocery stores.

[trof]

47. My KY uncle called it "the dispensary".

:shrug:

[gkdmaths]

49. When I was a kid it was

the 'creek' because a classmate and I built a still in the valley of a creek out behind our house (boonies!). We made some seriously mean moonshine for highschool seniors.

Now, I just go to the liquor store

[YankeyMCC]

50. Packie

[ScreamingMeemie]

51. In Milwaukee: The beer depot Detroit: The Liquor store.

:hi:

[tibbir]

52. My dad used to buy it from a state run outlet in the '60s

but we just go to the liquor store now.

[Redstone]

53. Mr Nick's. Because Mr Nick and Mrs Nick own it.

Redstone

[bigwillq]

54. Package Store (nt)

[baldguy]

57. I worked in a Liquor Store for seven years while I was in college

Yes, seven years. I've got two degrees.

[DBoon]

59. I call it "Trader Joe's"

where else can you get "Vodka of the Gods"?

[kwassa]

67. TJs can't sell alcohol in Maryland

[Kali]

60. Liquor store, circle k, safeway or for the best deals,

Ueta. The duty-free shop in Douglas - you buy, they bring it out to your car and make sure you cross into Mexico, maybe have lunch or shop - (pan dulce and tunes!) and come right back bringing your allowed liters/cartons of cigs etc.

[China_cat]

61. ABC store

(alcoholic beverage control)

[GalleryGod]

62. Package Store is an old timer Philly and Bawl'mer expression.

At least in the 50's-60's

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

63. PACKY!!!

[noonwitch]

64. Meijer

It's where I buy everything these days, except for the things I buy at Target.

[Zavulon]

66. I live in Maryland, too, but "package store?" Not in Laurel.

I call the place I buy booze "Astor Liquors," which is a liquor store.

[NewWaveChick1981]

68. ABC Store.

Stands for Alcoholic Beverage Control Store, which is heavily regulated by the state. Beer and wine are sold in grocery stores and places like Total Wine and More. ABC stores are closed on Sundays, but beer and wine are sold after noon on Sundays.

[kwassa]

69. The County Liqour Store, here in Montgomery County, MD

not a state store at all. All hard liquor. Beer and wine can be sold in private stores for that purpose.

[Lautremont]

70. The L.C.

Short for "Liquor Commission."

[demnan]

71. Liquor stores run by the state of Va are called package stores

but I still just call it the liquor store.

[Courtesy Flush]

72. You can buy liquor anywhere here.

We even have bars with drive-thru windows. They put a piece of tape over the cap, and that's considered legally a sealed container.

[One_Life_To_Give]

74. From when not being in the bag was illegal. The Packy

I had nbeen told it was illegal to carry an exposed alcahol container in public. Hence the Packy was required to put your purchase inside a paper bag. From whence the term Package Store spring as everyone left the store with their "package".

[CTyankee]

77. The wine and spirits store

Here in CT we don't say liquor. That is crude. We say spirits. So it is a "wine and spirits" store.

[tigereye]

78. state store

because in PA we we are evidently not mature enough to allow people to sell alcohol independently.

One day we will enter the 19th and 20th century and be able to buy wine and beer in the grocery store like everyone else. :eyes:

[alteredstate]

79. Here in the Bible belt....

In South Carolina, we call 'em "Red Dot Stores". I don't know why, but SC liquor stores have one or more red dot on the building.