I totally understand I walk past a bottle shop every day and sometimes I almost go on auto pilot as well, ingrained indeed. Glad you didnt though!
It helps that I stood at the door and talked to the owner about two months into quitting and said Hi (he is rather handsome) and asked him if he had an overflow of Merlot now that I had stopped drinking :-) he said yes! and asked if I had stopped i said yes it did not agree with me, I often think wouldnt it be funny if a recovering alcoholic dated a bottle shop owner! well at least his profits would not be drunk away!