Lived in a lot of States and therefore experienced a lot of different situations of buying booze. The Setup clubs of Texas in the 60's were a joke, not being able to carry your own longneck around a pool table in Delaware were laughable, being astonded in Colorado State Boozer store that a fifth of Seagrams 7 was twice as expensive as a private outlet, etc., etc. Also being used to the Wednesday's Boozer ads in the Illinois papers where Walgreens liquior specials were displayed on two full aisles were great.

Then moving to the "Left Coast" and experiencing the asinine Washington/Oregon State(s) Liquior attempts at running a business is laughable to say the least. Here this thread is now almost 2 pages long and nobody has remembered and mentioned the massive expensive and "Failed" Washington State Automated Booze Warehouse. That alone has in all likelyhood driven up the price of Hooch at least 50%. Goobermint does NOT want to be efficient, doesn't bode well for empires. In terms of efficently and EFFECTIVELY running essentially a Materials Management form of business, Goobermint is the last one you want involved. I believe that is why States who have Private Enterprises doing the Booze Business have far cheaper Hooch, better availability/choice, and better REVENUE flow thru liquior stamps (TAXATION) than either Washington or Orygun. They just Do Not have to support a Bureacracy. Compare the price of a bottle of VO in Walgreens in Illinois (after the Wednesday's Ads are out) to a bottle in either Orygun or Washington.