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Post by mmhmm on Nov 28, 2014 9:24:40 GMT -5
The sale of beer and wine is prohibited here; however, some cities allow it. There was a motion to end the blue laws that was tabled in July of this year. Don't think it's come back up but a poll showed 81% of the population to favor removal of the blue laws.
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Post by goldensam on Nov 28, 2014 10:36:53 GMT -5
Liquor stores are closed all day Sunday, but you can buy beer and wine in the grocery stores after noon. Most other places are open on Sunday, except car dealerships. I think laws restricting what can be sold and when on a Sunday are ridiculous.
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Post by HoneyBBQ on Nov 28, 2014 12:43:22 GMT -5
I won't shop on Thursday and I haven't shopped Black Friday for more than twenty years. There's NOTHING I need THAT bad. Tomorrow DF and I will go to Sarasota and Longboat Key. Yum, dinner at Columbia! I had my H go to the grocery store yesterday! (T day) I split my pomegranatein half for my salad and it was brown and mushy! We googled, found that Safeway was open, and went. i feel bad, but hey... my salad wanted some pizazz.
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Post by HoneyBBQ on Nov 28, 2014 13:25:22 GMT -5
I can remember (yes I'm an antique), when groceries weren't open past 6 pm. And weren't open at all on Sundays - ever.
When a few malls started sprouting up, they were open til 6 pm - and 9 pm on Fri/Sat - open from noon til 5 on Sunday - once they finally did start opening 7 days a week.
Now it's a 24/7 world. The mega-malls here open anywhere between 9 and 10 (or earlier) and stay open til 11 or 12 at night - 7 days a week - except XMas and NYD. (Some on Easter).
American "Black Friday" has now invaded Canada. Many stores here are having Black Friday blowout sales. Boxing Day (now Boxing Week) sales here start early on Dec 26th and go straight through the week til Jan 1 (NYD). A big time to buy furniture, electronics, clothing, etc. What people fail to realize about "Black Friday" type sales, is that retailers usually raise their prices just after Halloween, to make you think you're getting a great deal on that 20% or more saving during the big sale on Black Friday.
"It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World" as the movie title states. It's a lot harder to shop between 9 and 5 when most families don't have a SAHP anymore.
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Post by wvugurl26 on Nov 28, 2014 13:32:59 GMT -5
I don't think car dealers are open on Sunday. Carmax might be?
In WV you can't buy liquor on Sunday and you have to wait until 1pm to buy beer and wine. I think the part of Ohio near me is the same way with alcohol. I know some local places closed Sunday like the chocolate place.
In Deep Creek, MD at restaurants you have to order food before you can order a beer on Sunday.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Nov 28, 2014 13:36:25 GMT -5
You can't buy a car on a Sunday? Wow. I've never heard of that. But then, I live in a heathen state...no blue laws that I know of. Can't buy them here (Indiana) either. You can get liquor at restaurants, but no carry-out or take-home. It's been that way as long as I can remember. I thought it was the same everywhere. The county adjacent to mine used to be like that. You couldn't buy beer or wine on Sunday s, but you could get a mixed drink at a restaurant. I'm not sure about buying a bottle, as I don't buy liquor that often, I never ran into that dilemna. Oh, I think that the entire state bans alcohol sales on Christmas Day too,
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Post by Anne_in_VA on Nov 29, 2014 11:28:09 GMT -5
VA has state liquor stores (ABC stores), so you can't buy liquor on Sunday or holidays, but you can buy beer and wine at grocery stores although I think they have restricted hours for that. I'm not sure about the hours since we don't buy a lot of beer or wine at the grocery store though.
I remember when I was a kid that nothing was open on Thanksgiving, Christmas or New Years Day except maybe a few restaurants. No grocery stores, nothing. Then somewhere along the way, grocery stores opened in the morning and then closed around noon or 1 pm. Now they're open until about 6 pm I think. Now you can go to almost any store or restaurant and they're open on Sunday and holidays - well except for Chik-fil-A.
I hate that everything is open every day including holidays. My ex used to work at a major department store and he always had Thanksgiving and Christmas off. They closed the store at 6 pm the night before too. Now I assume he works all those crazy hours that stores are open even Thanksgiving day.
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Post by weltschmerz on Nov 29, 2014 12:12:05 GMT -5
I guess that football players shouldn't work on Thanksgiving. Oh noes! What will all the men do all day? Help in the kitchen?
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Post by NoNamePerson on Nov 29, 2014 14:40:47 GMT -5
I guess that football players shouldn't work on Thanksgiving. Oh noes! What will all the men do all day? Help in the kitchen? Uh, they better not stop football players from working on Thanksgiving. What would I do all day - help in the kitchen - NOT!! ![](http://images.proboards.com/new/wink.png)
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Post by NancysSummerSip on Nov 29, 2014 20:43:58 GMT -5
Heck, I can remember WHEN nothing was open on Sundays except resturants and drug stores. Retail openings was unheard of!! But this was way back in the neanderthal stage of civilization ![](http://syonidv.hodginsmedia.com/vsmileys/tongue2.png) Count me as another member of the neanderthal generation. I can also remember nearly everything closed on Sundays and major holidays. And we actually survived quite well, living that way. No malls, no Sunday alcohol sales...you had to be around your family that day, because there was pretty much nowhere else you could escape.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2014 20:55:32 GMT -5
Heck, I can remember WHEN nothing was open on Sundays except resturants and drug stores. Retail openings was unheard of!! But this was way back in the neanderthal stage of civilization ![](http://syonidv.hodginsmedia.com/vsmileys/tongue2.png) Count me as another member of the neanderthal generation. I can also remember nearly everything closed on Sundays and major holidays. And we actually survived quite well, living that way. No malls, no Sunday alcohol sales...you had to be around your family that day, because there was pretty much nowhere else you could escape. Sunday drives because nothing was open. Getting dragged along on those stupid boring Sunday drives. Hated those.
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Post by msventoux on Nov 29, 2014 20:57:13 GMT -5
Count me as another member of the neanderthal generation. I can also remember nearly everything closed on Sundays and major holidays. And we actually survived quite well, living that way. No malls, no Sunday alcohol sales...you had to be around your family that day, because there was pretty much nowhere else you could escape. Sunday drives because nothing was open. Getting dragged along on those stupid boring Sunday drives. Hated those. If your dad was drunk when he was driving it wasn't quite so boring. ![](http://images.proboards.com/new/angry.png) Still no fun though.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Nov 29, 2014 21:01:55 GMT -5
I remember when everything was closed on Sundays too. I must confess, I panic at Christmas because Meijer is closed. So glad there are some gas stations and Walgreens open still. I don't know why--I don't really NEED anything usually. It's just reassuring to know just about anything that I might need, should it pop up, is available just a mile away.
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Post by siralynn on Nov 29, 2014 23:34:48 GMT -5
One of the best things about moving back to California (from an unfortunate five years in NJ) was being able to buy booze anywhere and any time again. Love having a booze aisle in Target. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by NoNamePerson on Nov 30, 2014 7:29:21 GMT -5
One of the best things about moving back to California (from an unfortunate five years in NJ) was being able to buy booze anywhere and any time again. Love having a booze aisle in Target. ![](http://images.proboards.com/new/smiley.png) Just curious. Can you buy hard liquor at Target/other stores like WalMart, etc? We can buy beer and wine but no Vodka etc at Target. But then we also have "ABC State Stores" that pretty much control liquor sales (I hate it) and a few individual stores that sell hard liquor also. But they are few and far between.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2014 9:35:18 GMT -5
One of the best things about moving back to California (from an unfortunate five years in NJ) was being able to buy booze anywhere and any time again. Love having a booze aisle in Target. ![](http://images.proboards.com/new/smiley.png) Yeah, NJ has some weird laws that limit the number of liquor licenses as a function of the population and those limits haven't changed for decades. I also couldn't buy liquor on the way home from church because it was Sunday morning. Crazy. There were a ton of wonderful restaurants where BYOB was legal, which was actually nice except that the food prices were pretty high to make up for their inability to sell alcohol.
And then there was the time a license was available because a liquor store was destroyed by a fire (determined to be accidental- their pet cat, who liked to sit on the computer monitor and was known to most of the little kids in town, died in the fire). Did the license go to the restaurant down the street that had been in business for 20 years? No, it went to the son of the local state senator, who opened a fancy liquor store. I never set foot in that store just because I was so ticked off at the obvious favoritism.
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Post by thyme4change on Nov 30, 2014 9:51:47 GMT -5
Clearly Americans want their stores open on Thanksgiving. Sure, we have a vocal group that is fussing about it, but if there wasn't enough money being spent at the stores - this wouldn't be happening. Blame all those people that will give up a limb to save a few bucks on some crap that they probably don't need. No question that as a whole, we value stuff more than following traditions about what we should do on a day called Thanksgiving.
In reality - there are so many people who have to work - hospitals, emergency staff and what-not. And so many people who can't travel to be with family, so bunches of people aren't having this big Normal Rockwell portrait we absolutely insist on. If a few people think eating a PB&J and going shopping on Thanksgiving and (hopefully) saving a bunch of money is fun, who are we to say that the world is falling apart. If I didn't have family in town - I'm not sure eating dinner and then sitting around watching TV with my kids would be so special - it might be an adventure to hit the stores. If my husband was a police officer or whatever and I was alone - what else would I do? Knit?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2014 11:15:36 GMT -5
I remember when the stores and banks in my small town were open late on Friday nights. The farmers would come to town and do their shopping. The workers would take their checks to the bank.
Sunday the grocery store would close at noon, after the church people headed back home.
Those were the days . . . .
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Post by Lizard Queen on Nov 30, 2014 12:43:53 GMT -5
Clearly Americans want their stores open on Thanksgiving. Sure, we have a vocal group that is fussing about it, but if there wasn't enough money being spent at the stores - this wouldn't be happening. Blame all those people that will give up a limb to save a few bucks on some crap that they probably don't need. No question that as a whole, we value stuff more than following traditions about what we should do on a day called Thanksgiving. In reality - there are so many people who have to work - hospitals, emergency staff and what-not. And so many people who can't travel to be with family, so bunches of people aren't having this big Normal Rockwell portrait we absolutely insist on. If a few people think eating a PB&J and going shopping on Thanksgiving and (hopefully) saving a bunch of money is fun, who are we to say that the world is falling apart. If I didn't have family in town - I'm not sure eating dinner and then sitting around watching TV with my kids would be so special - it might be an adventure to hit the stores. If my husband was a police officer or whatever and I was alone - what else would I do? Knit? That's a good point. My family always celebrated christmas eve. Before I had a significant other, I had nothing to do on Christmas day. Friends would be busy with their own families.
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Post by siralynn on Nov 30, 2014 15:53:50 GMT -5
One of the best things about moving back to California (from an unfortunate five years in NJ) was being able to buy booze anywhere and any time again. Love having a booze aisle in Target. ![](http://images.proboards.com/new/smiley.png) Just curious. Can you buy hard liquor at Target/other stores like WalMart, etc? We can buy beer and wine but no Vodka etc at Target. But then we also have "ABC State Stores" that pretty much control liquor sales (I hate it) and a few individual stores that sell hard liquor also. But they are few and far between. Yes, you can. The selection isn't nearly as extensive as a place like BevMo, but you can definitely get hard liquor at Target (or the grocery store) in California. No ABC stores, thankfully.
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Post by MN-Investor on Nov 30, 2014 17:03:05 GMT -5
Public libraries may not be open on holidays, but it's great that their ebooks, magazines, and music are downloadable at any time. In fact, some libraries have seen record number of downloads on Christmas Day as folks start using the tablets and ebook readers they received for Christmas.
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