[SoothingDave]

Living in Pennsylvania, I never could figure out how forcing people to buy a case reduced beer consumption.

It's not designed that way. The idea is that inconvenience is bulit into it. You have to go out of your way to go to a special store to buy beer. This eliminates impulse buying and in theory, provides better control of the substance than having teenaged checkout clerks at a minimart selling beer to their friends.

It also puts a cap on late night drinking, where people tend to cause the most problems. Since you can't buy more than a 12 pack after the distributors close, the thinking is that such late night activity is curtailed.

SD

[dirtboy]

It's not designed that way. The idea is that inconvenience is bulit into it. You have to go out of your way to go to a special store to buy beer. This eliminates impulse buying and in theory, provides better control of the substance than having teenaged checkout clerks at a minimart selling beer to their friends.

What I end up doing is buying two cases so I don't have to worry about running out.

It also puts a cap on late night drinking, where people tend to cause the most problems. Since you can't buy more than a 12 pack after the distributors close, the thinking is that such late night activity is curtailed.

So you go to the bar and drink and then drive home.