You can buy beer at the grocery stores, but it is watered down to 3.2% maximum. Any higher amount has to be bought warm in a liquor store. The 3.2 is nasty and so is the warm beer from the liquor store.
Every self-checkout I have seen has to have a store clerk clear you after looking at a Drivers License. This is the usual OKLA political overkill.
Liquor laws are really strange when you look at them state-by-state. Here in New York, you can buy beer in the grocery store, and “wine products” (really low alcohol content wine), but not wine or hard liquor. Wine and hard liquor are sold in liquor stores, but they can’t sell beer.
I have a friend who is a former state senator and tried to have him explain it to me. Seems like the grocery lobby and the liquor store lobby like it just the way it is. Makes is damned inconvenient when you want to pick up stuff to make boilermakers.
California is blessed I guess. We can buy it at both places. There is a alcohol big-box store about a mile from the house called Bev-Mo. Check them out. They sell my anejo at a reasonable price.
By law the other big-box stores like Sams or Costco can’t require membership if the only thing you are buying is alcohol.
In the days of yore, if you bought beer at a drive through place like a dairy, you had to step out of the car to prove you could stand up.
I don’t understand how minors are getting around showing the cashier watching the Self Check Out their ID. In MO the Slef Check will not proceed until the cashier enters/scans the Drivers License DOB. i realize that someone could hand the cashier a fake ID while checking oput at a Self CHeck but the cashier still has to type in the DOB & look at the ID – same thing that would happen if you used a regular/chasier manned check out lane… I dont get it Oklahoma… Whats the difference?
Makes sense, Walmart, Target etc.. observe these types of laws in our state. No cigarettes or alcohol of any type without your id being physically check regardless of whether you try to go through a self or assisted checkout stand, heck they won’t even let you buy an R rated DVD without ID.
At least in OK you can buy beer in a grocery store. Here in PA the status quo thinks all hell would break loose if that were allowed.
You can buy beer at the grocery stores, but it is watered down to 3.2% maximum. Any higher amount has to be bought warm in a liquor store. The 3.2 is nasty and so is the warm beer from the liquor store.
Every self-checkout I have seen has to have a store clerk clear you after looking at a Drivers License. This is the usual OKLA political overkill.
Liquor laws are really strange when you look at them state-by-state. Here in New York, you can buy beer in the grocery store, and “wine products” (really low alcohol content wine), but not wine or hard liquor. Wine and hard liquor are sold in liquor stores, but they can’t sell beer.
I have a friend who is a former state senator and tried to have him explain it to me. Seems like the grocery lobby and the liquor store lobby like it just the way it is. Makes is damned inconvenient when you want to pick up stuff to make boilermakers.
California is blessed I guess. We can buy it at both places. There is a alcohol big-box store about a mile from the house called Bev-Mo. Check them out. They sell my anejo at a reasonable price.
By law the other big-box stores like Sams or Costco can’t require membership if the only thing you are buying is alcohol.
In the days of yore, if you bought beer at a drive through place like a dairy, you had to step out of the car to prove you could stand up.
You HAD to use the drive-thru. Too drunk to walk!
I don’t understand how minors are getting around showing the cashier watching the Self Check Out their ID. In MO the Slef Check will not proceed until the cashier enters/scans the Drivers License DOB. i realize that someone could hand the cashier a fake ID while checking oput at a Self CHeck but the cashier still has to type in the DOB & look at the ID – same thing that would happen if you used a regular/chasier manned check out lane… I dont get it Oklahoma… Whats the difference?
Makes sense, Walmart, Target etc.. observe these types of laws in our state. No cigarettes or alcohol of any type without your id being physically check regardless of whether you try to go through a self or assisted checkout stand, heck they won’t even let you buy an R rated DVD without ID.