Thread: Wine vending machines in Pennsylvania

On Aug 6, 7:59*pm, Patok <crazy.div.pa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> * *At first I thought "why bother?", until I read that supermarkets
> normally don't sell wine there, so it is some sort of improvement. It
> has still way to go, I think, before the ideal situation is reached,
> where wine is available 24 hours a day.
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-10889329
>
> --
> You'd be crazy to e-mail me with the crazy. But leave the div alone.
> --
> Whoever bans a book, shall be banished. Whoever burns a book, shall burn.

No, in Pennsylvania wine is sold only through state-owned stores or by
PA-based winemakers themselves. IIRC, these "vending machines" aren't
exactly the stick-your-money-in-and-get-the-bottle type. You have to
show your driver license or state ID to the machine and wait for
approval from a state bureaucrat who is remotely monitoring the
machine. I'll be glad if this state ever stops treating its citizens
like subjects, but I'm not holding my breath.

Dan-O

"Dan the Man" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Aug 6, 7:59 pm, Patok <crazy.div.pa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> At first I thought "why bother?", until I read that supermarkets
>> normally don't sell wine there, so it is some sort of improvement. It
>> has still way to go, I think, before the ideal situation is reached,
>> where wine is available 24 hours a day.
>>
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-10889329
>>
>> --
>> You'd be crazy to e-mail me with the crazy. But leave the div alone.
>> --
>> Whoever bans a book, shall be banished. Whoever burns a book, shall burn.
>
> No, in Pennsylvania wine is sold only through state-owned stores or by
> PA-based winemakers themselves. IIRC, these "vending machines" aren't
> exactly the stick-your-money-in-and-get-the-bottle type. You have to
> show your driver license or state ID to the machine and wait for
> approval from a state bureaucrat who is remotely monitoring the
> machine. I'll be glad if this state ever stops treating its citizens
> like subjects, but I'm not holding my breath.
>
> Dan-O

Perhaps when casinos outnumber the state liquor stores we'll see a little
loosening of the restrictions.

Jon