Zebra1275

I've been sober a number of years now.

I've noticed that several of the liquor stores I used to frequent are no longer in business.

I've been wondering, is this part of the natural business cycle?

Or did go out of business because they no longer had the volume of my purchases?

Coldfusion

Our local liquor store expanded its hours, even after new laws opened up liquor sales at the supermarket.

SnazzyDresser

The big superstores like Spec's are putting a lot of the smaller stores out of business here in San Antonio.

ScottFromWI

I think liquor stores are being replaced with grocery, convenience and mega stores that sell everything, but that's a trend for almost all specialty stores.

KAD

In my state, liquor sales are controlled by the government. Their stores never shut down. They might relocate but I've yet to see one go out of business. In fact, I see they're building another one just down the road from me. Just what we need around here. Good thing I quit drinking when I did!

CAPTAINZING2000

I feel personally responsible for Busch being sold to InBev

tomsteve

i highly doubt is was because it was the volume of your purchases.
unless you were spending $1000/wk +at each one they probably didnt even notice you stopped purchasing.

there are verying reasons they close. sometimes owners retire. sometimes they move. sometimes they die. sometimes they werent good at managing. sometimes wrong location.
just a few of them.

Doug39

I drank an ocean of beer and a lake of whiskey over the last 27 years.

But even though I quit some poor soul will be picking up my slack.

STDragon

Liquor sales here are a government monopoly. Instead of allowing grocery chains to sell, they open mini-stores inside the store. The workers are unionized and the prices are ridiculous. I'm sure they've driven more that one poor soul into poverty

I went out at 8:30am yesterday to pick up a few last minute things and the stores were open. at 8:30AM. That's nuts, it's just taking advantage of the poor souls trying to resist.

Forward12

Likely because you stopped going to them, to keep them in business

Zebra1275

i highly doubt is was because it was the volume of your purchases.
unless you were spending $1000/wk +at each one they probably didnt even notice you stopped purchasing.

This was a "tongue in cheek" post, I wasn't really serious

(besides, like most alcoholics, I rotated my stores, so the net effect on one probably wasn't too much)

tomsteve

I rotated stores so it didn't look like I had a problem.

BrendaChenowyth

One that I'd been hitting on a regular basis, because it was convenient for me and I had to rotate my stops, closed last summer because the road construction had severely impacted their customer traffic. I never had a problem sitting in the traffic I had to in order to get to that store.

Upstairs

Rotating stores? Same here. It must be something all heavy drinkers have in common as time progresses. Anyways, Virginia govt has a monopoly on liquor sales except beer/wine and they all seem to be doing fantastic despite my absence this year. I used to muse over if any of the clerks ever thought about where I went too.

Mountainmanbob

Mine are still all there waiting for my return -- but -- not today.

Mountainman

Yankee73

If anything, I notice that they are all going strong around me, but I just moved to an area where drinking seems to be the only hobby... the liquor stores close around 9pm here in boonies, but gas stations up here are allowed to sell, so you could buy at any time...

steve-in-kville

Liquor store #1 was my main store. It was maybe 15 minutes away. I could park around the side of the building (as if it mattered!). They weren't open as early/late as some state stores, but I bought about 75% of my liquor there. They seen me that much that if I would browse any other aisle other than the bourbon/canadian whisky/scotch, they would ask if I was feeling okay. No joke.

Store #2 was open more hours (even Sunday afternoons!) and it was kinda a bail-out. It was close to a favorite grocery store of mine as well as Home Depot, so I could kill a few birds with one stone. But there was no hiding, it was right on a busy intersection. They were that big and that busy that I had seen alkies that were full-blown hammered buy booze and the clerk wouldn't flag 'em. It was easier to sell them the liquor than risk a confrontation, I guess.

Outonthetiles

We all did. There's some amazing threads about the distances driven to go to satellite stores miles out of the way to avoid seeing the same clerk every day.

SWTPEA61

I rotated also .....maybe we should start a poll on this question.

SWTPEA61

I had 6 stores that I rotated.