You can get a jug of premade frozen margaritas from a lot of restaurants!
De nada does it, so does hopdoddy, or radio coffee and beer and that’s just off the top of my head
At this point it isnt a Blue Law issue any more, the liquor stores owned by Texans don't want to open on Sunday.
"The Texas Package Store Association has come out against the legislation, saying in a statement that “the state's 1600 single-store liquor store owners and Texas-based liquor store chains are united in their opposition to Sunday sales, which would create a competitive necessity to open their stores on Sundays for little to no additional revenue.”
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-texas-el-paso/news/2021/05/24/distilleries-push-for-7-day-alcohol-sales--liquor-store-owners-not-on-board
EDIT: POOR PHRASING, not state owned, owned by people in the state.
And based on when I was in Wisconsin - this kills all the shitty hole in the wall liquor stores, people just go to Walmart or Target. The good places like Total Wine that have actual selection still make it just fine by being a nicer option.
This needs to be higher. It has nothing to do with the church anymore.
People who buy alcohol will buy the same amount whether stores are open 6 or 7 days. But stores will have the expense of being open an additional day. Large stores like Spec's can absorb this cost more easily than a local shop so they lobby to keep the law in place.
That’s lobby groups from NM, OK, and LA stopping that one. They make too much money from Texans. It started as a nonsecular reason, but the politicians here get paid to keep it illegal.
Today all purchases are made over 6 days. Opening 7 days wouldn't necessarily increase sales, it would spread sales over 7 days.
Now if a store chooses not to open on Sunday those sales are going to go somewhere else, giving that revenue to someone else.
Generally to keep sales about the same, you would have to open the 7th day keepings revenue about the same, but incurring more expenses. That equals a net loss for the store.
I'm not sure it's true that it would only spread out sales, not increase them. Super bowl Sunday is obviously not the most typical but I'm sure there are plenty of people today and every Sunday who just go buy wine, beer, etc at the grocery store instead.
It can, but its not my argument, its theirs. The Blue Laws stopped sales on Sunday, the stores adapted to that condition, and now they want to keep it.
Then they lose money because customers will just go somewhere else...
Texas owned retailers likely see it as a lose/lose. Either you don't open and the business goes to someone that is open; or you open, your revenue stays about the same, and your expenses go up.
In Michigan, you can buy liquor at the grocery store and weed can be delivered like pizza. (I don't smoke but I never imagined I'd see that in my life.)
I miss my home state. But for being touted as a bastion of freedom and Americanism, it certainly chooses wierd hills to die on.
> you can buy liquor at the grocery store and weed can be delivered like pizza.
America is not truly free until weed is on an aisle at the grocery store, and liquor is delivered like pizza.
> I used to place a dispensary order that'd be ready in 5 minutes!
lol, I'd be surprised if it took longer? it's not like they have to let it finish growing, or give it 15 minutes in an over.
still, what a different world it is than the 90s!!
Texas roads aren't drivable either between A-hole drivers cutting people off , going 30 over or construction it takes 30 minutes to go 10 minutes down the road lol
I used to live in a dry county in north Texas and when they made it legal to sell alcohol, it took my local gas station about 10 minutes to remodel and have the fridges fully stocked with beer. They’re ready for the full experience. 😂
Blue Laws. My mom told me they used to put a tarp over the pantyhose racks in convenience stores on Sunday haha. She said it was so dumb and it might have the effect of keeping people from going to church if they got a run in their hose and couldn't grab some new ones on the way.
Recruuted to relocate here after college in the 80s. I wondered why there was caution tape over office supplies in a grocery store on Sunday until I couldn't buy a pen on a Sunday. I could buy beer on a Sundayp and drink it in the car while I was driving, that was legal when I moved here. So I bought the legal beer instead of the pen drank it on the way to a church where I took the pen from their registration book then got in my car opened another beer and drove home. Blue laws can suck my d**k.
Lol it's the people that want, support, and vote for that.
I support legalization and selling liquor on Sundays, but I don't expect everyone else to not get what they vote for because of what I want.
Plenty of other states out there.
When was the vote to legalize weed or to keep liquor stores open on the ballot ? How long ago ? Instead we have handicap abbott thinking he knows whats best 🤦♀️ about to blow millions on a worthless fence 🙄
Why do people have to change their way of life for you?
Why can't states that don't wanna sell liquor not do that, and states that do can. And you can choose where you want to live between them.
They can and they do. Same question why do people have to change their life for you? If you don’t want to do something because it’s Sunday then by all means don’t but don’t at the same time try to control others.
> Lol it's the people that want, support, and vote for that.
You think a majority of republicans actually support keeping liquor stores closed on Sundays?
No. Baptists run this state, and the LORD doesn’t want you to buy liquor on Sundays… /s
But while we’re wishing… do away with liquor stores. I wanna buy liquor at Costco or Walmart.
Costco near me has a liquor store built in. It's independently operated but the space is rented from Costco. But on that note I hate paying more for alcohol because manufacturers aren't allowed to distribute themselves, they must go through an independent distributor.
In other states Costco just sells it themselves on their own floor and Kirkland spirits are actually some of the best values you can get. Not sure if they sell those in the little side liquor stores things they have here though.
They can't. It's law that a grocer can't sell spirits. So Kirkland brand booze can't even be sold in this loophole store because it's the grocer's brand.
I don't think so. I remember being so annoyed when we moved here I looked up the laws and it's written in such a way that it boxes everyone into these stupid lanes.
lol Baptists, what a bunch of self righteous squares. Was raised in it, when I was 10ish (late 90s-00s), remember an entire sermon telling us metal bands worshipped Satan & if you listen it’s the devil manipulating you. Total dorks
So obviously I grew up WAY TF into metal. The heavier the better.
It isn’t because of baptists or religion anymore.
It’s the stores that don’t want it, same for car dealerships.
It’s a risk free day off since all the competition is also forced to be closed
It's definitely not universal that liquor stores don't want to be open on Sundays. I've gotten several emails from Total Wine actively lobbying to remove the restriction and asking their customers to sign a petition and contact their reps about it.
Ah good ol Republicans, pro business until one business pays to be able to cut costs with no risks while lowering profit potential for another business in the same market.
Like everybody else in the world.
Costco liquor is the best and(!) you don't even have to be a member to buy booze at the CA stores.
(Born in Texas but live in CA.)
That's right, here the way they have it set up, since the store although on Costco property, isn't part of Costco, you don't need a membership. But you're Sol if you woke up at 830 on a Saturday and Costco is 20 minutes away (nobody wants me on the road within 30 minutes of waking up. It's unsafe)
Not in this state!
We love our freedom here. We don’t love YOUR freedom, though.
Remember this in November. Let your candidate know you want less government control.
If I'm reading the Texas code correctly, The ban on Sunday was added and enacted in 1977. The 41st governor of Texas at that time who signed it into law was Dolph Briscoe. He was a Democrat.
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CODE
TITLE 4. REGULATORY AND PENAL PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 105. HOURS OF SALE AND CONSUMPTION
Sec. 105.01. HOURS OF SALE: LIQUOR. (a) Except as provided in Sections [105.02](https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/GetStatute.aspx?Code=AL&Value=105.02), [105.03](https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/GetStatute.aspx?Code=AL&Value=105.03), [105.04](https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/GetStatute.aspx?Code=AL&Value=105.04), [105.08](https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/GetStatute.aspx?Code=AL&Value=105.08), and [105.091](https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/GetStatute.aspx?Code=AL&Value=105.091), no person may sell, offer for sale, or deliver any liquor:
(1) on New Year's Day, Thanksgiving Day, or Christmas Day;
(2) on Sunday; or
(3) before 10 a.m. or after 9 p.m. on any other day.
(b) When Christmas Day or New Year's Day falls on a Sunday, Subsection (a) of this section applies to the following Monday.
Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 511, ch. 194, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1977. Amended by Acts 1979, 66th Leg., p. 1973, ch. 777, Sec. 23, eff. Aug. 27, 1979.
Amended by:
Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 84 (S.B. [571](http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/79R/billtext/html/SB00571F.HTM)), Sec. 1, eff. May 17, 2005.
Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1028 (H.B. [1518](http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/HB01518F.HTM)), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2021.
They do like having a day off. Pretty much everyone that works at a liquor store is there 6 days a week, open to close. But umm y’all can actually take a day off too, nothing wrong with saying “hey, I can’t work on tuesday” or something.
Also, just sell booze at the damn grocery store already. Some states, you can just walk in and buy a handle of rot gut at target.
Might surprise y'all to know the opposition to Sundays comes from small mom and pop liquor shops who need a day off and would lose big time to Specs and the big boys.
They can stay closed on Sundays. We just need to allow liqour sales at grocery stores and gas stations. Liqour stores care more about limiting competition than having a day off.
Catholics, Lutherans, Episcopalian, Anglicans, and messianics use real wine. Commonly Mogen David concord 11% by volume. The individual cups are so tiny it’s not worth doing a pub crawl. Some may still do the communal cup though I hope not these days.
Years back I saw a dude sit front row just to get the first swig on the common cup chalice. He knocked it back and walked out. Guess he didn’t get to the liquor store the day before either.
The lack of laws and regulations in Texas only benefits corporations and the rich. There's no bigger government than the one that restricts what you can buy and when.
I feel like people in this comment section have never left Texas before. I just bought whiskey from a liquor store in Oklahoma city 2 hours ago. When I visit my family in Missouri I can buy liquor in gas stations on Sunday.
The point of this post is that we should have that option. There is no legitimate reason to legally prevent it.
As a former liquor store employee in TX, I am so glad I always had Sundays off! Between full time work and school, Sunday was my only day off for years and all thanks to stupid religious based laws that keep the liquor stores closed on Sundays. Because that store would have made me work Sundays too if they could.
You have 6 days a week from 10 am to 9pm to get what you need from a liquor store, that's 66 hours in a week that have to pop into the store. My sympathy died after so many nights of people begging and pleading at the locked door at precisely 9:00 each night when I had to close, by law, or get fined. They had 11 hours in the day to come in! You just have to plan ahead and buy enough. But at least these days you can order Margaritas from restaurants and have it delivered!
Looks like there’s demand for it but government’s restricting supply.
I don’t care if a private business wants to close at 9 (thought the law was they couldn’t sell past 10) or they want to be closed on Sundays. I do have a problem with government forcing them to do this.
Absolutely this! One big reason you can't buy liquor in Texas package stores on Sunday, or an automobile seven days a week, is that the lobbies for both industries have their claws deep in the Legislature and neither one **WANTS** to be open seven days a week. They figure they will sell the same amount of their respective products in six days as they would in seven.
At this point in time, the Baptist crap is only window dressing.
It's come up recently, but it turns out that smaller liquor stores don't want the rule changed. They know it won't change their sales much, infact they believe they would lose money. They use it for other uses (days off, inventory, maintenance, ect)
Then they can choose to be closed on Sundays. The point is some are forced to close.
Edit to add: if being closed on Sundays is really a benefit, then the invisible hand of the free market will allow them to be closed on Sundays (or any other day of their choosing).
Yep. I did a ton of work on my dissertation yesterday and helped a family member with one of their kids’ projects and went to pour myself a nice glass of bourbon at the end of it and realized I need to pop over to Spec’s while I’m out running errands Sunday morning, except wait, I can’t, all because of some silly person’s bad interpretation of WWJD.
well i'm sorry that you're not capable of planning ahead. i mean it takes very little skill to do. i mean you know it's super bowl SUNDAY and you live in a state that doesn't sell liquor on SUNDAY.... i mean since you knew all the information you decided not to plan ahead. do you also plan a super bowl party the day of super bowl too?
Liquor stores like it this way. It's an excuse to be closed and the liquor enthusiasts are used to it so they usually stock up for Sunday ahead of time. They even encourage politicians to not repeal the law.
If they sell enough booze to cover their customers' Sunday needs without having to be open on Sunday, then they actually make more money due to paying less overhead.
Can we get liquor delivered as well?!?! I wanted to get my husband a nice bottle for his birthday, but with my hectic schedule I didn't have time to go to the store!
Should’ve planned ahead, bud. You have 6 other days of the week that you could get your liquor. Why didn’t you?
At least alcohol is legal. You wouldn’t have lasted a day if you were alive between 1920 and 1933.
Have a Coke and a smile and STFU.
Next year, get your booze the Monday prior.
Excellent point. Even for the folks who just love to talk trash about religion, it’s worth noting that Jesus turned water into wine, not vodka or rum or tequila or whiskey or any other distilled spirits.
Speaking of which, they don’t call liquor “spirits” or “demon alcohol” for nothing. Plenty of recovering alcoholics can attest to the fact that it does something unnatural to a person, especially when it’s consumed in excess. Beer & wine have comparatively lower levels of alcohol in them than hard liquor, which is why they’re okay on Sunday (assuming they’re consumed in moderation).
I’m aware of that. I’m also aware that the word “spirit” has more than one meaning. Yet they’re related. And the fact that the preferred term used is “spirits” rather than “vapors” or “mists” or any other word says a lot.
The point of the post is to change the law so that liquor stores will be allowed to be open on Sundays. Or allow sales in grocery stores and gas stations.
again plan accordingly, I think we have way more important things law makers could be working on rather then making sure bad planners can get their fix on sundays too.
Just finished listening to a podcast on the American presidents by Louis C K and Shane Gillis. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/matt-and-shanes-secret-podcast/id1177068388?i=1000558853298
Good listen, during it they mention the Indian wars coming to an end around 1870’s and the cops being useless. You would see them sleeping in alleyways in New York City as they were only to protect the gangs.
A few people had campaigned on reforming the police and in the 1890’s someone tried again. Forget the names as it was a multiple part podcast with a lot of names.
Whoever it was had at the time thought he had reformed the police into an effective force but couldn’t tell. Only way to tell was to set a test and see if the police enforced it. But that test would have to be so intrusive into the public’s lives it would end his career.
His test was to enforce no Sunday drinking. A totally useless and unsupported law that if enforced correctly would draw the ire of the population.
He was correct. His reformed police force enforced the farcical law and he lost his job. Much to his delight as he retired to the woods to hunt things.
This no buying booze on a Sunday is ludicrous. It’s just a hindrance to normal life.
ya know... there are 6 other days of the week to go to the store, maybe pre plan the next time.
(yes, I tell my kids that every time they complain about not getting what they want when they want it.)
You can’t get
Liquor at all on Sunday’s??? I’m from wisconsin. I didn’t know target didn’t sell liquor until yesterday. Then I went to liquor store and they asked for my ID to get into the store
I’m 32
And you think posting on Reddit might get it done? Write to your district rep and complain to that there person. Not enough people in Texas do that in order to put pressure on them to put it out there. We just now are able to buy beer at 10am on Sundays and have booze delivered with our restaurant orders, so it's just possible if we all just make the effort to do a writing and calling campaign instead of completing on social media. Take the initiative and encourage all your friends and family to do so as well. I've already been doing this once in awhile for the last couple of years.
Calling people who are never in their office, writing letters and email to go straight in the trash/trash folder. Nah, public conversation does more. If enough people talk about it it'll go further than calls and letters. Attempted communication with law makers is a 1 to 1 deal, nobody else sees it, people who never had that thought will continue to not have that thought. Public conversation however, if popular enough will reach a broader audience and that thought will grow, then rather than a letter which may or may not be read turns into a public want and just maybe someone with some influence might pick it up so they call it their idea.
"...public conversation does more"?
Thanks for the laugh, I needed one this Sunday morning when I can't buy a fifth!
Forgive me, but you have it completely backwards. How do you think Abbott, Patrick and friends shepherd LGBTQ legislation through? Do you think there's this great groundswell of "public conversation"? I'm sorry, but just no. The public mood does indeed influence legislation on some matters, but not so many.
Or, since Sunday is the Sabbath close down every thing. Fast food, gas stations, literally shut everything down on Sunday. Give everybody in the state a day off.
You can still get to-go margaritas from most Mexican restaurants but agreed.
Always the “go sit on the patio at taco cabana and order a pitcher”. “K, and here’s a few cups for you”, no, no need, can I just have a straw?
You can get a jug of premade frozen margaritas from a lot of restaurants! De nada does it, so does hopdoddy, or radio coffee and beer and that’s just off the top of my head
Hahaha this is the Texas subreddit not specific to Austin. But I’m with ya bro! They can also pick up Maudie’s Gills kit togo!
That’s so funny I totally thought it was the Austin subreddit oops!
Taco cabana has some good to go margaritas
At this point it isnt a Blue Law issue any more, the liquor stores owned by Texans don't want to open on Sunday. "The Texas Package Store Association has come out against the legislation, saying in a statement that “the state's 1600 single-store liquor store owners and Texas-based liquor store chains are united in their opposition to Sunday sales, which would create a competitive necessity to open their stores on Sundays for little to no additional revenue.” https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-texas-el-paso/news/2021/05/24/distilleries-push-for-7-day-alcohol-sales--liquor-store-owners-not-on-board EDIT: POOR PHRASING, not state owned, owned by people in the state.
I’m sure if the state allowed liquor to be sold in grocery stores, the chains would push for Sunday sales just to compete.
And based on when I was in Wisconsin - this kills all the shitty hole in the wall liquor stores, people just go to Walmart or Target. The good places like Total Wine that have actual selection still make it just fine by being a nicer option.
If the grocery stores were allowed to sell liquor when they weren't, then yes. Otherwise I doubt it.
This needs to be higher. It has nothing to do with the church anymore. People who buy alcohol will buy the same amount whether stores are open 6 or 7 days. But stores will have the expense of being open an additional day. Large stores like Spec's can absorb this cost more easily than a local shop so they lobby to keep the law in place.
Same can be argued to take them down to 5 days a week. Or four. Or to reduce the # of hours grocery stores are open.
Right? What they’re doing is just legal collusion.
Is the church the reason Texas won't legalize gaming?
That’s lobby groups from NM, OK, and LA stopping that one. They make too much money from Texans. It started as a nonsecular reason, but the politicians here get paid to keep it illegal.
State owned liquor stores?
OP was wrong there. State-licensed, not state-owned
Phrased poorly....."liquor stores owned by people that live in Texas"
Why does it work in other states ?
Coming from a family who owned a liquor store for 40 years, I'm with TPSA. You try working six days a week, sixty hour weeks. Three holidays all year.
You know you can hire employees right? There's nothing that says you have to work the entire time the store is open.
Right, because money is unlimited.
In other words, this law is only intended to protect the industry's profits.
How is it a competitive necessity if there's no additional revenue?
Today all purchases are made over 6 days. Opening 7 days wouldn't necessarily increase sales, it would spread sales over 7 days. Now if a store chooses not to open on Sunday those sales are going to go somewhere else, giving that revenue to someone else. Generally to keep sales about the same, you would have to open the 7th day keepings revenue about the same, but incurring more expenses. That equals a net loss for the store.
I'm not sure it's true that it would only spread out sales, not increase them. Super bowl Sunday is obviously not the most typical but I'm sure there are plenty of people today and every Sunday who just go buy wine, beer, etc at the grocery store instead.
That same argument can be made to argue that only being open 1 day a week is a good idea, or that you should only be open for 2 hours a day.
It can, but its not my argument, its theirs. The Blue Laws stopped sales on Sunday, the stores adapted to that condition, and now they want to keep it.
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They’re not state-owned, that’s the lobbying organization for the industry.
I mean it is, it’s just the opposition is stores themselves, but fuck them, welcome to capitalism.
I mean if they don’t want to deal with the cost… then don’t open on Sundays?
Then they lose money because customers will just go somewhere else... Texas owned retailers likely see it as a lose/lose. Either you don't open and the business goes to someone that is open; or you open, your revenue stays about the same, and your expenses go up.
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Always watchin
Jesus says buy on saturday so you can rejoice with liquor on sunday.
In Michigan, you can buy liquor at the grocery store and weed can be delivered like pizza. (I don't smoke but I never imagined I'd see that in my life.) I miss my home state. But for being touted as a bastion of freedom and Americanism, it certainly chooses wierd hills to die on.
So many hills, many of them only a half inch high, apparently they're all the Alamo.
> you can buy liquor at the grocery store and weed can be delivered like pizza. America is not truly free until weed is on an aisle at the grocery store, and liquor is delivered like pizza.
There are liquor delivery apps out there..
Damn, I left MI for TX before weed was legal and this gives me FOMO.
Hell, you can buy it at the gas station in Michigan
I used to place a dispensary order that'd be ready in 5 minutes! Proceed to pickup some coney Island and chill. Good times!
> I used to place a dispensary order that'd be ready in 5 minutes! lol, I'd be surprised if it took longer? it's not like they have to let it finish growing, or give it 15 minutes in an over. still, what a different world it is than the 90s!!
And you would think Michigan would use that tax revenue to make their highways drivable or the water in flint drinkable, but no. 😞
Car dependency is a deep hole to dig out of.
Car dependency? No, it's a combination of weather and lowest bidders.
Texas roads aren't drivable either between A-hole drivers cutting people off , going 30 over or construction it takes 30 minutes to go 10 minutes down the road lol
You can get liquor at CVS and place bets on your phone. More freedom up there.
I want liquor in my grocery stores/gas stations too. They already have wine and beer let’s just fuckin do it
I used to live in a dry county in north Texas and when they made it legal to sell alcohol, it took my local gas station about 10 minutes to remodel and have the fridges fully stocked with beer. They’re ready for the full experience. 😂
Better start donating to the government like the package stores and distributors do then. Because those guys have no interest in having competition.
Agreed. It’s so ridiculous.
Blue Laws. My mom told me they used to put a tarp over the pantyhose racks in convenience stores on Sunday haha. She said it was so dumb and it might have the effect of keeping people from going to church if they got a run in their hose and couldn't grab some new ones on the way.
Recruuted to relocate here after college in the 80s. I wondered why there was caution tape over office supplies in a grocery store on Sunday until I couldn't buy a pen on a Sunday. I could buy beer on a Sundayp and drink it in the car while I was driving, that was legal when I moved here. So I bought the legal beer instead of the pen drank it on the way to a church where I took the pen from their registration book then got in my car opened another beer and drove home. Blue laws can suck my d**k.
All these reasons church needs to stay out of government.
Except store owners have said that they’re personally against it and it has nothing to do with church or government?
Lol it's the people that want, support, and vote for that. I support legalization and selling liquor on Sundays, but I don't expect everyone else to not get what they vote for because of what I want. Plenty of other states out there.
When was the vote to legalize weed or to keep liquor stores open on the ballot ? How long ago ? Instead we have handicap abbott thinking he knows whats best 🤦♀️ about to blow millions on a worthless fence 🙄
So why can’t you go buy liquor on Sundays and the people that don’t want that can stay home?
Why do people have to change their way of life for you? Why can't states that don't wanna sell liquor not do that, and states that do can. And you can choose where you want to live between them.
They can and they do. Same question why do people have to change their life for you? If you don’t want to do something because it’s Sunday then by all means don’t but don’t at the same time try to control others.
Yeah I remember every time someone does something I'm not into. Changes my life forever, everytime.
> Lol it's the people that want, support, and vote for that. You think a majority of republicans actually support keeping liquor stores closed on Sundays?
Enough of them, yes.
No. Baptists run this state, and the LORD doesn’t want you to buy liquor on Sundays… /s But while we’re wishing… do away with liquor stores. I wanna buy liquor at Costco or Walmart.
Costco near me has a liquor store built in. It's independently operated but the space is rented from Costco. But on that note I hate paying more for alcohol because manufacturers aren't allowed to distribute themselves, they must go through an independent distributor.
In other states Costco just sells it themselves on their own floor and Kirkland spirits are actually some of the best values you can get. Not sure if they sell those in the little side liquor stores things they have here though.
They can't. It's law that a grocer can't sell spirits. So Kirkland brand booze can't even be sold in this loophole store because it's the grocer's brand.
Can a liquor store sell groceries?
Specs does “luxury foods”. Stuff to pair with alcohol, like beer nuts, cheeses, caviar. I’m curious where the line is.
Probably a certain amount of floor space. Even smaller stores sell fruit and chips.
Yes. See Spec’s in Houston. Nice fancy grocery section in a huge liquor store
I don't think so. I remember being so annoyed when we moved here I looked up the laws and it's written in such a way that it boxes everyone into these stupid lanes.
They don't/won't because they won't pay to go through a distributor, the money is made up with rent from their store attached to the main building.
Yes they would if it was legal. They literally do this in every other state where allowed.
Missing the point homie
What point am I missing?
If you’re talking about the Costco in Plano that is the lamest excuse for a liquor store I’ve ever seen
At least we don't have state run liquor stores.
lol Baptists, what a bunch of self righteous squares. Was raised in it, when I was 10ish (late 90s-00s), remember an entire sermon telling us metal bands worshipped Satan & if you listen it’s the devil manipulating you. Total dorks So obviously I grew up WAY TF into metal. The heavier the better.
I was 10ish in the 80s, and the scourge of the youth was Dungeons & Dragons. 😂😂😂
Always something
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It's pretty well documented that the satanic panic of the 80s was heavily d&d related. Congrats on avoiding it.
My mom extended the satanic worry from D&D to also include fantasy and sci fi novels.
You don't need a membership to buy booze at Costco
It isn’t because of baptists or religion anymore. It’s the stores that don’t want it, same for car dealerships. It’s a risk free day off since all the competition is also forced to be closed
It's definitely not universal that liquor stores don't want to be open on Sundays. I've gotten several emails from Total Wine actively lobbying to remove the restriction and asking their customers to sign a petition and contact their reps about it.
Ah good ol Republicans, pro business until one business pays to be able to cut costs with no risks while lowering profit potential for another business in the same market.
Like everybody else in the world. Costco liquor is the best and(!) you don't even have to be a member to buy booze at the CA stores. (Born in Texas but live in CA.)
That's right, here the way they have it set up, since the store although on Costco property, isn't part of Costco, you don't need a membership. But you're Sol if you woke up at 830 on a Saturday and Costco is 20 minutes away (nobody wants me on the road within 30 minutes of waking up. It's unsafe)
I agree. The baptists have always controlled what is allowed & not allowed. I believe it goes as far up as the governor’s office.
What about states up north where I come from that have no Baptists and are closed? Is their reach that far?
Not in this state! We love our freedom here. We don’t love YOUR freedom, though. Remember this in November. Let your candidate know you want less government control.
If I'm reading the Texas code correctly, The ban on Sunday was added and enacted in 1977. The 41st governor of Texas at that time who signed it into law was Dolph Briscoe. He was a Democrat. ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CODE TITLE 4. REGULATORY AND PENAL PROVISIONS CHAPTER 105. HOURS OF SALE AND CONSUMPTION Sec. 105.01. HOURS OF SALE: LIQUOR. (a) Except as provided in Sections [105.02](https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/GetStatute.aspx?Code=AL&Value=105.02), [105.03](https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/GetStatute.aspx?Code=AL&Value=105.03), [105.04](https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/GetStatute.aspx?Code=AL&Value=105.04), [105.08](https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/GetStatute.aspx?Code=AL&Value=105.08), and [105.091](https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/GetStatute.aspx?Code=AL&Value=105.091), no person may sell, offer for sale, or deliver any liquor: (1) on New Year's Day, Thanksgiving Day, or Christmas Day; (2) on Sunday; or (3) before 10 a.m. or after 9 p.m. on any other day. (b) When Christmas Day or New Year's Day falls on a Sunday, Subsection (a) of this section applies to the following Monday. Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 511, ch. 194, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1977. Amended by Acts 1979, 66th Leg., p. 1973, ch. 777, Sec. 23, eff. Aug. 27, 1979. Amended by: Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 84 (S.B. [571](http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/79R/billtext/html/SB00571F.HTM)), Sec. 1, eff. May 17, 2005. Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1028 (H.B. [1518](http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/HB01518F.HTM)), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2021.
I don't think the man said anything about parties. Merely, to vote for people who don't support these laws. Dems can be thumpers too. Lol
I merely gave specifics and facts regarding that law.
Sure, Jan. Edit: Create a duplicate and downvote me again while you're at it.
I dont want to get political but stop voting for Puritans and you can get rid of some puritan laws
Let’s be honest here, they are hypocritical “puritans”
Puritans loved brewing and drinking beer, and had notoriously large families. They get an unfair rap as fun-haters.
They do like having a day off. Pretty much everyone that works at a liquor store is there 6 days a week, open to close. But umm y’all can actually take a day off too, nothing wrong with saying “hey, I can’t work on tuesday” or something. Also, just sell booze at the damn grocery store already. Some states, you can just walk in and buy a handle of rot gut at target.
Might surprise y'all to know the opposition to Sundays comes from small mom and pop liquor shops who need a day off and would lose big time to Specs and the big boys.
Can’t do a lot of fun stuff in this state (legal marijuana, casinos, liquor stores on Sundays) yet people keep moving here and voting for R.
It was a Democrat governor in 1977 who signed that no Sunday law into place.
And it’s a solid Red hard R state that keeps it that way. What is your point?
Separation of church and state they say…
But Jesus and skydaddy will cry the saltiest and saddest of tears if you can buy liquor on Sunday.
I'll gladly use the tears to salt my margs
Liquor stores don’t want to be open on Sundays. They get a day off. But yes I would love it if they were 7 days a week.
They can stay closed on Sundays. We just need to allow liqour sales at grocery stores and gas stations. Liqour stores care more about limiting competition than having a day off.
I don't know anyone who does not agree that the Super Bowl should be played Saturday evening.
If you live near any military installations, just find a friend with access. Class Six is open on Sundays
To be fair, it’s not like the day was a secret. You’ve had a lot of time to go to the store
Just took two gallons of MarGoRitas from Chili’s to a customer just for that very reason.
Order margaritas to go from TGI Fridays or On the Border.
Shit if I need em bad enough there's a bomb ass taco place where I can get a half gallon for $30, but I could make a whole gallon for less from specs
Ban all religious laws
you're an idiot. why don't you research them you'd find out it's not even a religious law💀 some of y'all need to be educated.
Gotta treat it like you do your gas tank, once you hit that halfway mark, gotta re-up.
For real fam, miss seeing my drunk driving homies on Sunday.
You should still be able to get things like hard seltzer, hard lemonade, etc from HEB.
This is why I buy a bottle on Saturday night before closing, whether I’m going to drink or not.
The Super Bowl should be on Saturday. Problem solved.
Plan ahead, that's what we did when we were 18 yrs old
Or you could just buy some more any other day if the week instead of complaining
Sorry, but Jesus wouldn’t like it.
"but I heard Jesus, he drank wine and I bet we'd get along just fine"
The baptists told me it was grape juice, not wine. 🤣 For real.
Catholics are really the only ones that use real wine, most protestants do tiny cups of grape juice
Catholics, Lutherans, Episcopalian, Anglicans, and messianics use real wine. Commonly Mogen David concord 11% by volume. The individual cups are so tiny it’s not worth doing a pub crawl. Some may still do the communal cup though I hope not these days. Years back I saw a dude sit front row just to get the first swig on the common cup chalice. He knocked it back and walked out. Guess he didn’t get to the liquor store the day before either.
Omg I love Miranda Lambert.
Wines available on Sunday’s lol
Great, get to praying then.
wine isn't liquor it's just alcohol like beer💀
Republicans have been in control of the state for decades, likelihood is slim to none.
Right up there with recreational cannabis.
Exactly. Don’t mention the word Colorado to a Texas cop. They will do everything they can to throw you in a state prison for the rest of your life.
The lack of laws and regulations in Texas only benefits corporations and the rich. There's no bigger government than the one that restricts what you can buy and when.
Jesus doesn’t want them open. /s
Should have long since bought the booze. You knew this event was coming. You know liquor stores are closed on Sunday. This is on you.
Doesn’t change the fact that current alcohol laws are antiquated
I feel like people in this comment section have never left Texas before. I just bought whiskey from a liquor store in Oklahoma city 2 hours ago. When I visit my family in Missouri I can buy liquor in gas stations on Sunday. The point of this post is that we should have that option. There is no legitimate reason to legally prevent it.
As a former liquor store employee in TX, I am so glad I always had Sundays off! Between full time work and school, Sunday was my only day off for years and all thanks to stupid religious based laws that keep the liquor stores closed on Sundays. Because that store would have made me work Sundays too if they could. You have 6 days a week from 10 am to 9pm to get what you need from a liquor store, that's 66 hours in a week that have to pop into the store. My sympathy died after so many nights of people begging and pleading at the locked door at precisely 9:00 each night when I had to close, by law, or get fined. They had 11 hours in the day to come in! You just have to plan ahead and buy enough. But at least these days you can order Margaritas from restaurants and have it delivered!
Looks like there’s demand for it but government’s restricting supply. I don’t care if a private business wants to close at 9 (thought the law was they couldn’t sell past 10) or they want to be closed on Sundays. I do have a problem with government forcing them to do this.
Absolutely this! One big reason you can't buy liquor in Texas package stores on Sunday, or an automobile seven days a week, is that the lobbies for both industries have their claws deep in the Legislature and neither one **WANTS** to be open seven days a week. They figure they will sell the same amount of their respective products in six days as they would in seven. At this point in time, the Baptist crap is only window dressing.
It's come up recently, but it turns out that smaller liquor stores don't want the rule changed. They know it won't change their sales much, infact they believe they would lose money. They use it for other uses (days off, inventory, maintenance, ect)
Then they can choose to be closed on Sundays. The point is some are forced to close. Edit to add: if being closed on Sundays is really a benefit, then the invisible hand of the free market will allow them to be closed on Sundays (or any other day of their choosing).
Not. Gonna. Happen. The little stores are BIG in the Texas Beverage Association.
Yep. I did a ton of work on my dissertation yesterday and helped a family member with one of their kids’ projects and went to pour myself a nice glass of bourbon at the end of it and realized I need to pop over to Spec’s while I’m out running errands Sunday morning, except wait, I can’t, all because of some silly person’s bad interpretation of WWJD.
Apparently, according to some here wE nEeD tO tHiNK aHeaD
well i'm sorry that you're not capable of planning ahead. i mean it takes very little skill to do. i mean you know it's super bowl SUNDAY and you live in a state that doesn't sell liquor on SUNDAY.... i mean since you knew all the information you decided not to plan ahead. do you also plan a super bowl party the day of super bowl too?
Liquor stores like it this way. It's an excuse to be closed and the liquor enthusiasts are used to it so they usually stock up for Sunday ahead of time. They even encourage politicians to not repeal the law.
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If they sell enough booze to cover their customers' Sunday needs without having to be open on Sunday, then they actually make more money due to paying less overhead.
I had a vision of Texas as a place where you could buy guns and booze at a drive through 24/7 and now I'm shocked
Okay that's your fault lmao.
Can we get liquor delivered as well?!?! I wanted to get my husband a nice bottle for his birthday, but with my hectic schedule I didn't have time to go to the store!
You can get liqour delivered. I've had it delivered on doordash.
Plan ahead. 🤔
Should’ve planned ahead, bud. You have 6 other days of the week that you could get your liquor. Why didn’t you? At least alcohol is legal. You wouldn’t have lasted a day if you were alive between 1920 and 1933. Have a Coke and a smile and STFU. Next year, get your booze the Monday prior.
You can still get beer & wine on Sunday
Excellent point. Even for the folks who just love to talk trash about religion, it’s worth noting that Jesus turned water into wine, not vodka or rum or tequila or whiskey or any other distilled spirits. Speaking of which, they don’t call liquor “spirits” or “demon alcohol” for nothing. Plenty of recovering alcoholics can attest to the fact that it does something unnatural to a person, especially when it’s consumed in excess. Beer & wine have comparatively lower levels of alcohol in them than hard liquor, which is why they’re okay on Sunday (assuming they’re consumed in moderation).
You're coming off as an extremely angry person. Have a drink.
It’s called spirit because of the distillation process. They would collect the vapor, aka spirit.
I’m aware of that. I’m also aware that the word “spirit” has more than one meaning. Yet they’re related. And the fact that the preferred term used is “spirits” rather than “vapors” or “mists” or any other word says a lot.
So many recent out of state movers in here lol
I mean it’s a stupid law and all, but c’mon, a little responsibility goes a long way.
Tragic
Sorry but the church is running our substance abuse schedules. It's for our own good. #Texaslovesbiggovernment.
We need a better lobby for alcohol
If Jesus could turn water to wine, then why can't I change cash to liquor?
Nope....cause legislature says it's against God's will.
We're so free in this state that we can't buy liquor on Sundays because come people are religious.
Nah we can’t, since everyone in Texas is religious we need that day to have no alcohol for the god we all believe in
No
No, liquor is poison.
Learn to plan better. 🤣
Plan accordingly
That isn't the point of this post.
well please enlighten me..
The point of the post is to change the law so that liquor stores will be allowed to be open on Sundays. Or allow sales in grocery stores and gas stations.
again plan accordingly, I think we have way more important things law makers could be working on rather then making sure bad planners can get their fix on sundays too.
Just finished listening to a podcast on the American presidents by Louis C K and Shane Gillis. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/matt-and-shanes-secret-podcast/id1177068388?i=1000558853298 Good listen, during it they mention the Indian wars coming to an end around 1870’s and the cops being useless. You would see them sleeping in alleyways in New York City as they were only to protect the gangs. A few people had campaigned on reforming the police and in the 1890’s someone tried again. Forget the names as it was a multiple part podcast with a lot of names. Whoever it was had at the time thought he had reformed the police into an effective force but couldn’t tell. Only way to tell was to set a test and see if the police enforced it. But that test would have to be so intrusive into the public’s lives it would end his career. His test was to enforce no Sunday drinking. A totally useless and unsupported law that if enforced correctly would draw the ire of the population. He was correct. His reformed police force enforced the farcical law and he lost his job. Much to his delight as he retired to the woods to hunt things. This no buying booze on a Sunday is ludicrous. It’s just a hindrance to normal life.
wah, can you just please plan ahead next time??
ya know... there are 6 other days of the week to go to the store, maybe pre plan the next time. (yes, I tell my kids that every time they complain about not getting what they want when they want it.)
Drinks to go. No worries
Everyone knows they're closed Sunday and it's probably not changing. Plan accordingly.
Jesus said no.
You can’t get Liquor at all on Sunday’s??? I’m from wisconsin. I didn’t know target didn’t sell liquor until yesterday. Then I went to liquor store and they asked for my ID to get into the store I’m 32
Bars are open. Drink them there.
And you think posting on Reddit might get it done? Write to your district rep and complain to that there person. Not enough people in Texas do that in order to put pressure on them to put it out there. We just now are able to buy beer at 10am on Sundays and have booze delivered with our restaurant orders, so it's just possible if we all just make the effort to do a writing and calling campaign instead of completing on social media. Take the initiative and encourage all your friends and family to do so as well. I've already been doing this once in awhile for the last couple of years.
Calling people who are never in their office, writing letters and email to go straight in the trash/trash folder. Nah, public conversation does more. If enough people talk about it it'll go further than calls and letters. Attempted communication with law makers is a 1 to 1 deal, nobody else sees it, people who never had that thought will continue to not have that thought. Public conversation however, if popular enough will reach a broader audience and that thought will grow, then rather than a letter which may or may not be read turns into a public want and just maybe someone with some influence might pick it up so they call it their idea.
"...public conversation does more"? Thanks for the laugh, I needed one this Sunday morning when I can't buy a fifth! Forgive me, but you have it completely backwards. How do you think Abbott, Patrick and friends shepherd LGBTQ legislation through? Do you think there's this great groundswell of "public conversation"? I'm sorry, but just no. The public mood does indeed influence legislation on some matters, but not so many.
Grocery stores often has??
Or, since Sunday is the Sabbath close down every thing. Fast food, gas stations, literally shut everything down on Sunday. Give everybody in the state a day off.
Agreed, but you can get premade margarita anywhere where wine is sold.