Woo-hoo! At last, we in CT can buy alcohol on Sundays!
We have left Indiana, the only other state in the U.S. where Sunday alcohol sales are prohibited!
Link here: http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2012/05/02/news/doc4fa05a2a22e84829223933.txt
For all these years this was pure protectionism for the benefit of the liquor stores who didn't want to have to bear the cost of opening their stores on Sunday. You couldn't even buy beer in supermarkets on Sundays (beer sections were covered with heavy plastic curtains) and you still can't buy wine in supermarkets. Go figure that.
We can thank our new Dem governor, Dan Malloy, for working this thing thru. The shameless liquor store lobby "compromised" by removing any restriction on pricing, screwing the consumers, something Malloy deeply opposed. That issue will be "studied" and brought back next year.
I'll raise a glass of Pinot Noir in celebration!
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CT has a rich history of settlement by Puritans. In fact, Yale was founded to save young men from attending that hotbed of the devil, Harvard. A number of residential colleges at Yale are named after several notable CT Puritans, including Jonathan Edwards ("sinners in the hands of an angry God"
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Of course, the Puritan argument which became the Prohibition argument, has been protectionism for many years now. The liquor store owners are lazy and don't want to have to keep up with the times. Geez...
where there's no alcohol in supermarkets and only a few State Stores (not all) are open on Sundays now (as of last year or the year before). Oh that's right, they are now called "Wine and Spirits Shoppes" (LOL) and even the tea bagger governor and his tea bagger legislature can't seem to get past the PA "T" fundies. 
Of course as it stands, these stores are run with state employees and the biz wing is butting up against those fundies with respect to privatizing and I support the state workers in principle.
Remember back in the day when they kept all the booze behind the counter and you had to ASK THE GUY at the counter for your fifth of vodka?
At least they let us stroll down the aisles ourselves now. And there is the loosening up on Sundays thing.
"Wine and Spirits Shoppes" 
Then there's the bit about having to go to a WHOLE DIFFERENT SPECIAL STORE to buy a case of beer...
like they tried here in PA as a pilot test. That didn't last long. I think they've all been pulled.
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/09/pas_wine-vending_machine_exper.html
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There are several in Florence. They are are little doors, called wine doors, in the palazzi of the wealth families. They sold their excess wine from their country vineyards to the public. One of the wine doors I saw even had their daily hours carved in stone above it!
Evidently you would bring your wineskin to the door, knock and a servant would take your money and fill your wineskin. How cool is that?
to hold the wine and maybe some bread! 
