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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.

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

Well, yes. But that defeats the point of "impulse buying." Frankly, if it's midnight and you need a bottle of whiskey or a couple more cases of beer, you should have planned ahead.

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

I never said it was a perfect system. Just that it had certain goals in mind and that "forcing people to buy larger quantities" was not the idea. It was making people plan to buy large quantities from more-controlled stores during normal shopping hours.

As opposed to Atlantic City where they have 24 hour liquor delivery.