Why does my state (Minnesota) not allow liquor stores to be open for business on Sundays?

you know the answer: religion.

Snet wrote:

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It's probably not worth losing any sleep over. If you can't buy enough liquor on a Saturday to get you through to Monday then you need to find a better job or start drinking less.

When I was growing up in Texas you couldn't buy liquor on Sunday until after, I think, it was 12 noon. That was so's you wouldn't go out fishing/drinking before you went to church. Don't know if it's still that way.

I do very well with my booze inventory management! It just that this topic comes up once or twice a year in the legislature and various other jurisdictions, and then it fades away again for six months. I simply wonder why the rule still exists.

Indiana has a similar law. Hell, there is a small dry section in the major city I live in. Bars along one side of the street, dry on the other.

All of these laws are rooted in religion.

I thought it was weird when I lived in New York state about 20 years ago, and would be in the grocery store around midnight when the beer sales got locked down. Buy early!

It may be rooted in religion, but the reason it persists is because of the support of liquor store owners. They get to reduce their overhead by 14%, and probably don't lose much in sales, because people just stock up for Sunday on Saturday.

In FL you can buy liquor on Sunday. However, the liquor dept has to have a separate outside entrance. If you go to a Winn-Dixie that sells liquor, along with groceries, you have to make your grocery purchase first, take the items to your car, and then enter the liquor dept thru a separate door to by your Scotch.

UsedToBeKnowItAll wrote:

It may be rooted in religion, but the reason it persists is because of the support of liquor store owners. They get to reduce their overhead by 14%, and probably don't lose much in sales, because people just stock up for Sunday on Saturday.

Are you sure about that? Power is still running and rent has to be paid. Refrigeration isn't cheap. From personal experience, most consumers don't plan ahead quite like you imagine for booze.

Another a vestige of the temperance movement is characterizing consumers as addicts and other extreme assumptions that justifies such stringent controls.

State liquor laws are crazy. Look at the table on Wikipedia. It's a complete jumble of arbitrary laws and restrictions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_laws_of_the_United_States

We need to get back to the good old days of prohibition when there was one uniform law in the US.

runDirtyrun wrote:

UsedToBeKnowItAll wrote:

It may be rooted in religion, but the reason it persists is because of the support of liquor store owners. They get to reduce their overhead by 14%, and probably don't lose much in sales, because people just stock up for Sunday on Saturday.

Are you sure about that? Power is still running and rent has to be paid. Refrigeration isn't cheap. From personal experience, most consumers don't plan ahead quite like you imagine for booze.

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This.

Plus, some of those sales are lost to bars, which remain open.

UsedToBeKnowItAll wrote:

It may be rooted in religion, but the reason it persists is because of the support of liquor store owners. They get to reduce their overhead by 14%, and probably don't lose much in sales, because people just stock up for Sunday on Saturday.

I am sure that would get an additional bump in sales if they could be open for people grabbing something before football games.

I think the owners would like the chance to be open.

But yes, the requirement to be closed means they won't lose business to someone else if they chose to close.

May be because of Blue Laws.

I remember when someone tore her panty hose and wanted to buy some on Sunday it was not allowed due to Blue Law.

Can you buy guns on Sundays in these states?

Lots of states prohibit car sales on Sunday, even though you can buy everything else except maybe liquor on a Sunday.

14% is a very precise figure. Nothing personal - but it sounds like it was pulled from your nether regions. Rent is large component of fixed overhead. It doesn't get reduced because the business isn't open one day out of the week.

He just divided 100 by 7.

Yes, he is wrong for the reasons you and others have stated.

Wasabettorrower wrote:

14% is a very precise figure. Nothing personal - but it sounds like it was pulled from your nether regions. Rent is large component of fixed overhead. It doesn't get reduced because the business isn't open one day out of the week.

It sounds like you lack basic common sense.

There are seven days in a week. 100% / 7 ~ 14%

That's where he came up with that estimate (which is undoubtedly false for reasons another poster pointed out above.)

The laws in Indiana are so backwards and don't make sense...On Sundays, no carryouts are allowed of any packaged beer, wine or liquor.

But on Sundays, I can go into any restaurant and have a beer, or four, with my meal. I can fill my growler at one of many brewpubs in the area, which I do all summer long. What difference does it make what container it's in?

Our stupid laws don't really bother me. I can drive 15 minutes to Michigan and get any bottled craft beer I want. 5 minutes away is my favorite brewpub. They fill growlers all day long on Sundays!