[Help!]

Why is it unseemly? Many folks go to get their groceries very early on Sunday morning because it's quiet and the lines are short. If they wish to purchase a bottle of wine (or whatever) to consume later in the day, why not? Why should they have to go back to the store just because it's Sunday?

By the way, I'm old enough to remember when the blue laws in our state prohibited ANY store from being open on Sunday. My best childhood friend was not even allowed to sew on Sunday (not allowed to play with "face cards" either.)

If you really want to enforce "no work on Sunday - keep it Holy" why restrict it to alcohol sales?

[Ouderkirk]

Actually, I do remember the enforcement of the "blue laws". You had to plan ahead. If there was a picnic or whatever on a Sunday you needed to buy beer on Saturday or sometime before. In some respects it was OK and you understood that that the way it was. With 24/7 everything these days the "blue laws" are harder to justify.

Alcohol sales are a different story. Like any vice, it demands a certain amount of regulation because there are those with no self-restraint.

That is in essence the purpose of blue laws. The imposition of some restraint on those who choose not to have any.