Upscale said:
Those look like working beer counters in a liquor store. We could use some of those in our Ontario, Canada liquor stores. Right now, our liquor laws are living in the dark ages.
It couldn't be worse than Pennsylvania, could it? For example, how many separate purchases do you have to make to buy three six-packs, a case of beer and a bottle of wine in Pennsylvania?
Four.
Yup, four. Purchase #1--for the bottle of wine, you have to go to a a "state store" (state-run liquor store)--until very recently, no other place was allowed to sell wine. Purchase #2--state stores are prohibited by law from selling beer, so you go to a "beer distributor" to buy the case of beer. Purchase #3--beer distributors are prohibited by law from selling beer in quantities less than a full case, so you go to a bar and buy two six packs.
Wait a minute, you say, you just bought two six-packs at the bar for purchase #3, why not get three six-packs and be finished?
Because in Pennsylvania, a bar is prohibited by law from selling one person more than two six-packs at a time. For obvious reasons. If a person bought more than two six-packs at a time, why, there could be a catastrophe. Pennsylvanian society, and perhaps our entire state, could come to an end...or sink to the level of all those other places where you can buy three six-packs at once. So you walk out of the bar with your two six-packs, put them in your car, and go back in for purchase#4.
Regards,
John