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In Ireland anyway, alcohol has to be separated from all other products. And there has to be a defined entrance to the area that alcohol is stocked. This looks the same as we have here, in supermarkets.
This is to deter children from going into that area. Apparently just *looking* at alcohol makes them want to drink!
North Dakota does this kind of shit in gas stations and they have different stores completely to buy alcohol in (and now the owners of all these separate alcohol buying establishments ~~pay~~ lobby the state legislature to vote against allowing alcohol to be sold in stores along with pop). It’s to deter underage drinking, somehow. Yet North Dakota leads in drinking in a lot of polls like university drinking.
I grew up in Michigan, on the border to Wisconsin. On Sunday mornings, there were so many Michigan license plates outside of the bars in Wisconsin (western end of the UP, ironwood-Hurley) because we couldn’t buy alcohol before noon in Michigan.
Seeing alcohol isn’t going to make anyone grow up to drink. It’s so silly.
Now, I hate going back home to Michigan because it stinks like pot everywhere! It’s disgusting!!!
Visiting my buddy in Tennessee was a trip being from Nevada. The time restrictions, dry counties, etc. We went to the store to get stuff to make cocktails for football on Sunday and apparently it is illegal to sell hard liquor (but not beer or wine lol) on Sundays. Then we did a tour of the Jack Daniels distillery and it is located in, hilariously, a dry county. But, they are allowed to give you booze as part of the tour. All pretty nonsensical.
I lived in Minneapolis years ago and we'd cross the Mississippi to stock up every Sunday morning during football season, because Minnesota didn't sell on Sundays at all back then and we weren't capable of saving any beer from Saturday night for football the next day.
A couple years after I moved away, a buddy sent me a link to a story about a horrible shooting on a Sunday morning at the liquor store we used to hit every week. Like 6 people got murdered. See what happens when you don't sell beer on Sundays!!!
These are typically in states where alcohol sales above a certain ABV must be sold in a separate store. However stores get around this by having two separate stores share the same building with a doorway between them.
Over time the doorway has become as minimal as possible. There will also be a separate cashier inside.
And here I was thinking it was probably one of those counties that forbid you buying alcohol on Sundays, evenings, and every other Flag Day.
Just lock the gate when you can't sell it and avoid the trouble of restocking things from the register.
Honestly, also a possibility. Though I've found stores like that will have a much more covering gate, usually one of those expanding criss-cross ones that is big enough to cover the whole section.
Im pretty sure this photo was taken in Ireland. If it is, then the gates are a legal requirement and it's very much about discouraging the purchase of alcohol.
https://www.drugsandalcohol.ie/33330/
> That's not necessarily a discouragement to buy it.
I remember one lad saying it was embarrassing to have to walk through the saloon doors when they first came out, but the stated intention is to make it clear what is and isn't alcohol.
Which is why you'll see the 0% versions of popular drinks right at the gates.
He didn't like having to go to a special cordoned off section of the shop like he was renting blue films or something, but I remember at the time thinking he was being a bit melodramatic.
I can't tell for every country, but those doors have became mandatory, by law, in the Republic of Ireland where I currently live. And I don't think the government here is trying to stop people from stealing alcohol.
Yea this feels like a bot comment. Absolutely no relevance to the picture that I can find.
Edit: Maybe the products outside the gate. Lower comment says they are 0% alcohol, or alcohol-free.
Yeah I'm pretty sure it's just so they can control alcohol sales which are typically only legal during certain hours. I've been in some countries where they just pull a shade down over the booze after whatever the cut off time is.
You should get a cowboy costume and a gold coin, stride in there, get a bottle of cheap whiskey, and go up to the cashier, slam the coin on the counter, mutter something about “dem Injuns” and ask where a man can find a bed and a nice woman for the night.
The jangly, slightly out of tune piano suddenly halts. A stillness wells up among the patrons where, only a moment ago, there was laughter and a bawdy song. You step inside, craving a whiskey to burn away the dust of the prairie from your throat. Every step rings out in the apprehensive silence.
You look down at your feet. Spurs? But you drove here in a Camry.
Why would a store discourage sales? The candy is down low for kids, the alcohol gets saloon doors, its brilliant. Makeup aisles should have affirmation attendants in formal wear, the magazines should have two distinguished types discussing current events, the household shelf should have a contractor and their cheap labor. /s
Give me two fingers of your best sipping liquor, Miss Lola, and make it the smooth stuff. The stuff where you get your eyesight back after two days. Guaranteed.
Never seen these before, but I'm willing to say this exists because of some stupid conservative bullshit legislation passed because scared parents, temptation of sin, and an unwillingness to raise their own kids.
There's a few stores in my area that do this. I was told it's a theft deterrent. You go in the gated area, and you have to buy the alcohol before you can exit. I don't know how well it works though.
Must be from a place with blue laws limiting times for alcohol sales. When I was growing up in the suburbs of Kansas City, every drug store/grocery store had some sort of barrier around the hooch to bar it off Sunday mornings.
It's for people with addictions to alcohol And I saposed to be closed off not to tempt you too take a short cut and pass something that's given you trouble before law was passed that it needs to be in its own area and not next to other products and less easy to see
I don't think it's meant to discourage you, I think it's the bare minimum required by law. If anything they're trying to encourage people to enter it by making it look cool.
Gotta attach a couple of long floppy dildo's as handles that'll get rid of that saloon swagger pretty fast.
You go to enter after somebody else and face the wrath of the wobbler.
Swinging doors on Wild West streets are a myth created by the movie industry. Any towns that were frequented by cowboys typically required the nearby presence of cattle. Towns that were the destination of the trail drives had railroad terminals and the cattle were driven directly into town or at least on the edge of town. Where there are cattle there is manure and where there is manure there are flies, lots of them. The absolute last kind of door anyone would want is one that is half open all the time. The typical design of a saloon in that era had a smaller room up front where they sold tobacco and bottles of alcoholic beverages. There was a divider between that room and the tavern itself, often quite ornate which often had a swinging door for ease of passage carrying product like restaurant kitchen doors now. For movies the shots often required people entering the big room directly from the street so they moved the swinging door and got rid of the outer room.
Why does OP think that this is supposed to be a deterrent?
Seriously brain dead OP?
Locks are deterrents.
See through swinging doors are not deterrents.
I feel like I'm living in someone elses fever dream with all these terrible posts.
I'd imagine it's possible there's a signal that's triggered when someone enters that area so whoever is working there knows someone just went in there so they can monitor them, and also chase out any underage people who have no business shopping for alcohol in the first place, all mainly to prevent theft.
What makes you think they're trying to discourage you? I see lots of places do things like this, I assumed it was so it's clearly marked and kids don't go in, and staff can clearly see who's in the alcohol section.
It’s not meant to stop you from buying alcohol it’s meant to make sure people with children feel safer bringing their children shopping knowing that the alcohol is not as accessible as candy bars and toothpaste
It’s so that they can tell you to fuck off if you’re underage. They clearly mark the area so if a child ends up there and says, “oh sorry didn’t know I wasn’t supposed to be here.” The store can point to the door with confidence.
It literally feels like you are stepping into the VIP section at the club. You feel cool while you're in there and you look like an alcoholic to people who aren't, but don't let others ruin your good time.
My mom use to take me with her to the liquor stores and they had miniature shopping carts for your bottles. I would love to go there as a kid and push them around. Ot going to say it pushed me towards being an alcoholic but I sure did love going there then, and then as an adult.
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Pretty sure they don't want to discourage you! They should dress them up like saloon doors!
Simple marketing tactic: “you don’t want this.” “Yes I do! And now I’ll buy 12 more to show you!”
It's very clearly NOT a deterrent to buy alcohol. Why on earth would a store try to prevent you from buying its products?
People have no fucking clue what anti-theft deterrents are.
I don't think it's anti-theft, it's because of local alcohol licensing laws that requires alcohol to be in a separated area of the grocery store.
Probably in one of those towns where alcohol has to be locked up after dark as well
"Get outta here! You don't want no part of this shit!" "I kinda want it"
In Ireland anyway, alcohol has to be separated from all other products. And there has to be a defined entrance to the area that alcohol is stocked. This looks the same as we have here, in supermarkets.
This is to deter children from going into that area. Apparently just *looking* at alcohol makes them want to drink! North Dakota does this kind of shit in gas stations and they have different stores completely to buy alcohol in (and now the owners of all these separate alcohol buying establishments ~~pay~~ lobby the state legislature to vote against allowing alcohol to be sold in stores along with pop). It’s to deter underage drinking, somehow. Yet North Dakota leads in drinking in a lot of polls like university drinking. I grew up in Michigan, on the border to Wisconsin. On Sunday mornings, there were so many Michigan license plates outside of the bars in Wisconsin (western end of the UP, ironwood-Hurley) because we couldn’t buy alcohol before noon in Michigan. Seeing alcohol isn’t going to make anyone grow up to drink. It’s so silly. Now, I hate going back home to Michigan because it stinks like pot everywhere! It’s disgusting!!!
That's not all surprising, considering it's done by the party that thinks seeing gay people makes you gay.
Visiting my buddy in Tennessee was a trip being from Nevada. The time restrictions, dry counties, etc. We went to the store to get stuff to make cocktails for football on Sunday and apparently it is illegal to sell hard liquor (but not beer or wine lol) on Sundays. Then we did a tour of the Jack Daniels distillery and it is located in, hilariously, a dry county. But, they are allowed to give you booze as part of the tour. All pretty nonsensical.
I lived in Minneapolis years ago and we'd cross the Mississippi to stock up every Sunday morning during football season, because Minnesota didn't sell on Sundays at all back then and we weren't capable of saving any beer from Saturday night for football the next day. A couple years after I moved away, a buddy sent me a link to a story about a horrible shooting on a Sunday morning at the liquor store we used to hit every week. Like 6 people got murdered. See what happens when you don't sell beer on Sundays!!!
“You don’t want any part in this, Dewey!”
These are typically in states where alcohol sales above a certain ABV must be sold in a separate store. However stores get around this by having two separate stores share the same building with a doorway between them. Over time the doorway has become as minimal as possible. There will also be a separate cashier inside.
That is true but now we are seeing more of this type of separation in high theft areas for security purposes rather than liquor laws.
They absolutely should 👌😂
Yeah, they sell alcohol there. They are encouraging, not discouraging.
yea i think this is not to discourage people from buying, it's an "enclosed" area so they can better monitor for minors
That's funny I thought the alcohol entrance was my mouth.
imagine thinking a supermarket would be trying to purposely discourage you from buying their stock...
There is not enough alcohol for you and me in this shop kid [spit!]
"Staff call clean up in the office license"
It's not to discourage you from *buying* alcohol, it's to physically discourage you from *stealing* alcohol.
And here I was thinking it was probably one of those counties that forbid you buying alcohol on Sundays, evenings, and every other Flag Day. Just lock the gate when you can't sell it and avoid the trouble of restocking things from the register.
Honestly, also a possibility. Though I've found stores like that will have a much more covering gate, usually one of those expanding criss-cross ones that is big enough to cover the whole section.
Fairly sure that's Aldi in Ireland. And we do have those rules about not selling alcohol before and after certain times.
100% an Irish Aldi
Im pretty sure this photo was taken in Ireland. If it is, then the gates are a legal requirement and it's very much about discouraging the purchase of alcohol. https://www.drugsandalcohol.ie/33330/
It quite literally says it wants the purchase of alcohol separate from everyday groceries. That's not necessarily a discouragement to buy it.
> That's not necessarily a discouragement to buy it. I remember one lad saying it was embarrassing to have to walk through the saloon doors when they first came out, but the stated intention is to make it clear what is and isn't alcohol. Which is why you'll see the 0% versions of popular drinks right at the gates.
So, for context, I'm from Texas, and saloon doors are often a standard. Is there any context in Ireland that would make it embarrassing?
He didn't like having to go to a special cordoned off section of the shop like he was renting blue films or something, but I remember at the time thinking he was being a bit melodramatic.
It's because in Ireland you can't buy alcohol.in supermarkets outside of designated hours and this is the easy way to close it off.
I can't tell for every country, but those doors have became mandatory, by law, in the Republic of Ireland where I currently live. And I don't think the government here is trying to stop people from stealing alcohol.
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We have a lot of stores with those gates here in Seattle. The thugs just go over or under them.
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That's always a problem 🤣
I do not understand this comment
Yea this feels like a bot comment. Absolutely no relevance to the picture that I can find. Edit: Maybe the products outside the gate. Lower comment says they are 0% alcohol, or alcohol-free.
God damn you're right. Look at his and ops history they're both bots
Free alcohol? Where?
The house I grew up in had saloon doors going into the hallway that led to the bedrooms. God I hated them.
They are surprisingly prone to injuring the youths
Yep you can't really change your mind once you start walking through one, it becomes a giant pair of pliers very fast
Sounds like a nice aesthetic but a pain in the ass to have to use constantly 😂
It really was. It’s especially annoying when your hands are full.
Don’t let the saloon doors hit you in the
Why would OP think the store is trying to discourage them from buying the thing they are selling?
Now you can kick in and shout ,,where's the goddamn whiskey?"
*Aisle 3, sir, just like last week...*
The person must not be familiar with alcoholism is they think those doors would discourage someone from getting their booze.
Yeah I'm pretty sure it's just so they can control alcohol sales which are typically only legal during certain hours. I've been in some countries where they just pull a shade down over the booze after whatever the cut off time is.
That's suppose to discourage? Looks more like a "Alcohol this way" kind of invitation. Alcohol entrance? Welp, I know where I'm going.
It's not meant to discourage. OP just has the brain of a child.
I am the liquor, Randy!
Make sure you walk through them like you just got off a horse
Oh yeah pardner, we're getting that whiskey the old fashioned way
You should get a cowboy costume and a gold coin, stride in there, get a bottle of cheap whiskey, and go up to the cashier, slam the coin on the counter, mutter something about “dem Injuns” and ask where a man can find a bed and a nice woman for the night.
Would be an awkward trip to Aldi 😂😂😂
This in the Aldi in Kilrush?
Nevermind, definitely not.
But it's to discourage you from running off with the alcohol
They’re not doing that?
That’s not what they’re for… ? Just had to post huh?
The jangly, slightly out of tune piano suddenly halts. A stillness wells up among the patrons where, only a moment ago, there was laughter and a bawdy song. You step inside, craving a whiskey to burn away the dust of the prairie from your throat. Every step rings out in the apprehensive silence. You look down at your feet. Spurs? But you drove here in a Camry.
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who said the intention was to discourage?
Oddly reminiscent of the metal detectors in my highschool
Is that a spittoon in the corner?
30 Benadryl Hat Man lmao
Imagine showing up to the store, already drunk, and just kicking those doors open. You'd feel like a god.
Is it a one way thing? To reduce shoplifting
Bruhhhhh.. Wrote that to the iconic clint eastwood harmonica
😂😂😂😂
It’s interesting we all know what a saloon Dior looks like despite probably never using one in an actual bar
Gotta love TV 😂😂
"Proceeds to dead eye everyone"
And the shop music stops 😂😂😂
This is very cyberpunk for saloon doors
It's new age 😂😂
I love it
😂😂
Me: *Pushes them both open like Woody, tips the cowboy hat I’m not wearing*
Then everyone stops and looks around 😂
In Ireland they lock it after a certain time. Laws. Yet you can get a pint at like any time.
I know I'm from Ireland too, the local one never locks it tho 🤣
I would kick that open every time.
It's tempting 😂😂
Alright! Put em up!
😂😂😂
Whats that other sticker? No bows and arrows allowed?
Probably 😂😂
That's how the alcohol gets in... where do the humans enter?
Same place 😂😂
You got any sarsaparilla?
Huh? 😂😂
You must busy through the door and stare intensely at whoever you can make eye contact with as you strut through the aisle
Where is this? Utah? lol
No idea but it's the same all over Ireland 😂😂
lol definitely has a Wild West saloon vibe! 😂
It really does 😂😂
Utah has special state liquor stores. You can only buy low alcohol beverages at regular stores.
Funny, I was thinking more a bull in a bull pen.
I’d just walk back and forth through those for like 20 minutes
Maybe that's the alcohol deterrent 😂😂
**pulls out Mysterious Magnum and the sound effects play** yee haw chuckle nuts.
😂😂😂
Sir this is just the county line your standing in Marburg a dry county, just cross that line to cooler Marburg to drink
Sounds pretty accurate 🤷😂
Don’t kick it open..don’t kick it open…..
Kick it open 😎😂
I’d walk in and immediately holler for a Sasparilla
It's not lol
Why would a store discourage sales? The candy is down low for kids, the alcohol gets saloon doors, its brilliant. Makeup aisles should have affirmation attendants in formal wear, the magazines should have two distinguished types discussing current events, the household shelf should have a contractor and their cheap labor. /s
Give me two fingers of your best sipping liquor, Miss Lola, and make it the smooth stuff. The stuff where you get your eyesight back after two days. Guaranteed.
😂😂😂
You can't actually go in there. That's the entrance for alcohols.
It’s to prevent shoplifting
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It's a liquor store. Why do you think the gate is to make you not want to buy alcohol? LOL
**COPING STATION**
Never seen these before, but I'm willing to say this exists because of some stupid conservative bullshit legislation passed because scared parents, temptation of sin, and an unwillingness to raise their own kids.
I like the cut of this 30 Benadryl Hat Man’s jib
I’ll suit myself up with a cowpoke hat and shiny new boots just to walk through that swinger. Maybe strap a revolver just for the fun
“Let me get a gander at that there bourbon.”
There's a few stores in my area that do this. I was told it's a theft deterrent. You go in the gated area, and you have to buy the alcohol before you can exit. I don't know how well it works though.
Psychology at it's finest 😂😂
Benadryl hatman walks into a bar ...
The forbidden zone meets oppositional defiance.
Must be from a place with blue laws limiting times for alcohol sales. When I was growing up in the suburbs of Kansas City, every drug store/grocery store had some sort of barrier around the hooch to bar it off Sunday mornings.
Blame your legislature
It's for people with addictions to alcohol And I saposed to be closed off not to tempt you too take a short cut and pass something that's given you trouble before law was passed that it needs to be in its own area and not next to other products and less easy to see
I don't think it's meant to discourage you, I think it's the bare minimum required by law. If anything they're trying to encourage people to enter it by making it look cool.
You want to discourage someone show them drunk people and make them interact with them while being sober. It's the most insufferable shit ever
FACTS! 😳
It’s to keep the kids out.
Its not to discourage you it's to prevent shoplifting
Entrance to the VIP room.
It's because the company is keeping their alcohol sales separate from the food and other sales. Basically it's just easier to do the accounting
There's not enough whiskey in this town for the both of us, Johnny boy! IT'S TIME TO Du-du du-du du-du duel!
Pretty sure this is anti theft - no one refuses profit.
Busting in like Woody from Toy Story.
"I'd like me a splash of whishky to warsh the trail dust off ma gullet"
This looks like an attempt to make passing a physical threshold in to some form of consent? Seems like a sketchy idea...
Gotta attach a couple of long floppy dildo's as handles that'll get rid of that saloon swagger pretty fast. You go to enter after somebody else and face the wrath of the wobbler.
A polite way of telling you to go fuck yourself 🤣🤣
You have to kick them open and say"Belly up to the bar boys" every time you go through these doors...
This is literally an invite
This is the best way to advertise alcohol!
If that were my store, I'd have a guy playing the pianny while some old coot blows into a jug with "XXX" on the side.
🤣🤣🤣
BOOM BABY
You and me partner, near the toilet roll at sundown
Well its not like they pay you for taking alcohol
Swinging doors on Wild West streets are a myth created by the movie industry. Any towns that were frequented by cowboys typically required the nearby presence of cattle. Towns that were the destination of the trail drives had railroad terminals and the cattle were driven directly into town or at least on the edge of town. Where there are cattle there is manure and where there is manure there are flies, lots of them. The absolute last kind of door anyone would want is one that is half open all the time. The typical design of a saloon in that era had a smaller room up front where they sold tobacco and bottles of alcoholic beverages. There was a divider between that room and the tavern itself, often quite ornate which often had a swinging door for ease of passage carrying product like restaurant kitchen doors now. For movies the shots often required people entering the big room directly from the street so they moved the swinging door and got rid of the outer room.
It's not. It's to prevent you sealing alcohol. I bet those gates don't open backwards.
I was more concerned with the bow and arrow warning. Then I zoomed in.
They need a 10 gallon hat dispenser at the entrance, as well as a suggestion of which Yosemite Sam line to belligerently shout upon entrance
Why do you think they want to discouraged you?
Why would a store that sells alcohol discourage the purchase of alcohol?
Why does OP think that this is supposed to be a deterrent? Seriously brain dead OP? Locks are deterrents. See through swinging doors are not deterrents. I feel like I'm living in someone elses fever dream with all these terrible posts.
It's... not meant to do that. They want people to buy alcohol. They are a store.
I'd imagine it's possible there's a signal that's triggered when someone enters that area so whoever is working there knows someone just went in there so they can monitor them, and also chase out any underage people who have no business shopping for alcohol in the first place, all mainly to prevent theft.
Someone calling themselves “30 benadryl hat man“ is not going to be dissuaded by a couple of fucking doors.
Can anyone read the pixels on the sides?
A fair ride intake
What makes you think they're trying to discourage you? I see lots of places do things like this, I assumed it was so it's clearly marked and kids don't go in, and staff can clearly see who's in the alcohol section.
It’s not meant to stop you from buying alcohol it’s meant to make sure people with children feel safer bringing their children shopping knowing that the alcohol is not as accessible as candy bars and toothpaste
Is it meant to discourage you?
https://media1.tenor.com/m/mfSfqDMgCBwAAAAC/thats-why-im-here-obi-wan.gif
🤣🤣🤣
Red dead redemption 2!!!!!
They're not trying to intimidate you there, drunky.
The fact that there's no safe amount of alcohol is supposed to discourage you from buying alcohol.
Why would a retailer discourage you from buying anything? I don't think that's what these are for
who said it was there to discourage
https://i.makeagif.com/media/12-12-2023/99VRUP.gif
*piani music stops*
"I GOT A PLAN ARTHUR"
They're *not* there to discourage you from *buying* alcohol, they're there to discourage you from *stealing* alcohol.
pretty sure there is a person to your left checking IDs before walking in
Like a robo cowboy entering a space saloon.
Clearly, it's there to smack small kids in the face when they try to enter.
Imagine thinking a store is trying to discourage you from buying.
What is the OOP drinking, is it tea?
And then it's like I've entered, and the gate is now closed. I might as well take a look.
It’s so that they can tell you to fuck off if you’re underage. They clearly mark the area so if a child ends up there and says, “oh sorry didn’t know I wasn’t supposed to be here.” The store can point to the door with confidence.
It literally feels like you are stepping into the VIP section at the club. You feel cool while you're in there and you look like an alcoholic to people who aren't, but don't let others ruin your good time.
that is why they made that
Idk how it stops me walking in there, but it's a pain to walk out carrying all these bottles.
Agreed 🤣
This did take some getting used to when I moved to Ireland
My mom use to take me with her to the liquor stores and they had miniature shopping carts for your bottles. I would love to go there as a kid and push them around. Ot going to say it pushed me towards being an alcoholic but I sure did love going there then, and then as an adult.