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No More Drives To Jersey For Booze? Revolutionary
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Hell just froze over: Pennsylvania is going to allow wine to be sold in grocery stores, which means the beginning of the end of the dreaded State Stores. If you have never lived in Pennsylvania, you have no idea how revolutionary this is for that state, a last holdout for weird restrictive liquor sales restrictions. All wine and spirits had to be sold at state-run stores, which until relatively recently were spartan affairs, many not even allowing you to take the bottles off the shelves yourself. Beer was restricted to separate, private beer stores, except if you wanted a six-pack, in which case you had to go to a bar, because beer marts sell cases and kegs. And this was all NOT because of a Puritan streak, but because the union that represents State Store workers fought against any changes. Now, daylight. I don't even drink and I haven't lived in PA for years, but this is kind of exciting. (Philadelphia Inquirer)
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