Gawt damn! Good post and shows the insanity of this disease.
When my drinking progressed to alcoholic levels, I too would rotate stores. During that time I would drink non stop for 5 to 14 days straight and then snap out of it.
On one of those sober days I walked to one of my stores and bought a coke and told the cashier "don't sell me any beer before noon again".
She said "Oh you mean drinking all day every day isn't good for you?" The way she said it wasn't mean, it was funny and I just laughed and then when it was time to drink at 7am I went somewhere else for my beer. Insanity!