Indiana legislators to discuss Sunday alcohol sales

[indyk]

A state legislative study committee is preparing to delve into the issue of whether Indiana's ban on Sunday alcohol sales should be lifted.

State Sen. Ron Alting says the Interim Study Committee on Alcoholic Beverages will meet Wednesday at the Statehouse to discuss both the Sunday ban on alcohol sales and the state's ban on Election Day alcohol sales.

The Lafayette Republican says the bipartisan panel will begin taking public testimony on the issues during its Sept. 15 meeting.

The panel will report its findings to fellow lawmakers in January, when the General Assembly reconvenes.

 

[IndyBeerman]

Trust me you do not want this to pass on Sunday sales.
I promise you prices WILL GO UP do to distributors having to go to a 6 day work week and liquor stores having to have added payroll cost.

 

[The Meach]

Trust me you do not want this to pass on Sunday sales.
I promise you prices WILL GO UP do to distributors having to go to a 6 day work week and liquor stores having to have added payroll cost.

unless they happen to be able to sell something on Sundays...

 

[Benny]

unless they happen to be able to sell something on Sundays...

Uh, yeah exactly what I was thinking.

 

[LPMan59]

prices go up? that explains why beer is cheaper in my native ohio where beer can be bought cold at every gas station 7 days a week (at least it was when i was actually drinking it.)

 

[NEWMAN]

Hmm seems to work in Louisville just fine.
Prices are cheaper then here as well.

I think the beer/liqour and car sales people are lazy and want an extra day off.

 

[LPMan59]

frankly i have never understood why i can get plastered at a restaurant while watching football, but if i want to do it at my house so i dont have to drive, i have to buy booze the day before.

 

[Benny]

frankly i have never understood why i can get plastered at a restaurant while watching football, but if i want to do it at my house so i dont have to drive, i have to buy booze the day before.

I'm pretty sure anyone who enjoys a few cold ones while watching football on Sunday has wondered thing same thing once or twice.

 

[LPMan59]

well i was hoping that since i am not a hoosier by birth, that some one here could explain this imbecilic law? is there any reason behind it? logical or otherwise?

or does this go with the "pi=3" thing?

 

[mettle]

It's ALL about the revenue folks... get with the picture... Indiana NEEDS TAXES, it's broke.

 

[MyGlockRocks19]

We had the same restriction in Palmetto, Florida when I lived there....it was stupid there, and its stupid here. Give me one good reason why you shouldn't be able to buy beer on Sunday. Package beer, anyhow...it seems you can still drink if you want to go to a bar, so whats the problem?

This should be struck down. It serves no purpose, except to interfere in lawful commerce. And on what grounds?

 

[45-70]

And on the seventh day He rested. No Sunday alcohol sales. Church + state = not constitutional in the first place. I'm 100% for Sunday alcohol sales for that reason alone.

 

[Slab]

rough stuff. id love to carry out on sundays.

 

[eatsnopaste]

no logic behind it, just antiquated law never changed. The people who oppose it are actually the small liquor stores. Wally World and the grocery stores are already open and paying their help, will only add to their sales, the mom and pop packaged liquor store has only Sundays, a couple holidays and election day off, why in the world would they want to work an extra day? I don't have a dog in this fight, except for maybe siding with the small business owner....(I live a couple minutes from Michigan...they have Sunday sales)

 

[Slab]

businesses can still be closed on sundays if they wish. thats the great thing about being a business owner.

 

[Bill of Rights]

Yep. This started off as a "blue law", named for the paper on which they were written. I don't know if Indiana had others, but where I grew up in TX, the law was that you could buy food but not a frying pan and nails but not a hammer for the same reason. I know they struck down the blue laws re: work on Sunday, but I don't know if they got rid of the one about Sunday package alcohol sales.

It seems to me that if the law preventing it is lifted, that does not mean that the individual retailer has to agree to sell those things that day. Granted, if they are already open, it makes sense to do so, but nothing requires it. The story I've heard is that the smaller "mom and pop" liquor stores want Sunday closure so that they don't have to compete with the big chains and so that they can have a day with their families. I can appreciate that, but I think that if they make enough in sales with the extra day, they might (might) be able to afford to hire someone else to man the shop that day.
Note that I did not say I believed nor disbelieved that about the mom and pop stores, just that it's what I'd heard.

ETA: Seems the last two posts before mine, which posted while I was writing it, concur.

Blessings,
Bill

 

[ATF Consumer]

Trust me you do not want this to pass on Sunday sales.
I promise you prices WILL GO UP do to distributors having to go to a 6 day work week and liquor stores having to have added payroll cost.

Yeah, so maybe they should only be open 1 day out of the week to reduce costs.

 

[ihateiraq]

i hope this goes through. im so tired of driving to MI and buying booze and paying their outrageous prices...i mean uh...tired of stocking up on saturdays....

 

[bigus_D]

Hoosiers for Beverage Choices

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Go here a sign the online petition.

 

[Indybeer]

You think the no alcohol on Sunday rule is bad here, check out the PA liquor rules where I grew up!

You can pick up a 6 or 12 pack at a bar, but if you want more then you have to go to a licensed beer Distributer. Hard liquor can only be purchased at a State Liquor store.

No beer and liquor aisles at your local grocery/drug stores. No liquor stores to pick up both beer and whiskey.

Here's hoping that someday Indiana finally changes the rules...but there are too many bible thumpers of the ammoral majority out there that get these laws shot down.