+your daily weather report+

[cannongal]

...and it's just now occurring to me how odd that is given one can't buy alcohol in grocery stores here. Booze has its own store.

We (NH) can buy wine & beer at grocery stores, convenience stores, gas stations & walmart, but hard liquor can only be gotten from a state liquor store. Maine has 'authorized' liquor purchasing stations (otherwise known as Cumberland Farms gas station. Where I grew up in Mass, they had privately owned, state approved liquor stores, I'm not sure if they are still privately owned, or state run now, though