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If you think that's bad... when I lived in Pittsburgh in the late 90s, they still had one of the "old school" state stores that was basically just a warehouse with a service counter. You'd walk in and walk up to the counter where there would be book list of available items. You'd look at the list and tell the guy behind the counter, "I'd like item #283 please." Then he'd amble back into the warehouse, show up a few minutes later and either have your item in hand or, just as often as not, say, "sorry, we're out of item #283; is there anything else you'd like instead?" It was... weird, sterile, and just very... government-like.
Oh yes, I remember those days. All state stores (except maybe wholesale ones?) were like that until 1970. What explains them being like that? It never made ANY sense to me. And I'm surprised they didn't all convert to self-service as soon as the trend shifted from state stores being in downtowns to state stores being in strip centers.
If you think that's bad... when I lived in Pittsburgh in the late 90s, they still had one of the "old school" state stores that was basically just a warehouse with a service counter. You'd walk in and walk up to the counter where there would be book list of available items. You'd look at the list and tell the guy behind the counter, "I'd like item #283 please." Then he'd amble back into the warehouse, show up a few minutes later and either have your item in hand or, just as often as not, say, "sorry, we're out of item #283; is there anything else you'd like instead?" It was... weird, sterile, and just very... government-like.
I would never shop in a liquor store like that, most times when I go in, albeit only a few times a year anymore, I like to browse around for a bit. Even if I already have a particular brand and type in mind, every once in a while, while I'm browsing around something else catches my eye and I grab that either in addition to, or instead of what I was originally going for. Go in for some whiskey, decide it's more of a rum night sort of deal.
I would never shop in a liquor store like that, most times when I go in, albeit only a few times a year anymore, I like to browse around for a bit. Even if I already have a particular brand and type in mind, every once in a while, while I'm browsing around something else catches my eye and I grab that either in addition to, or instead of what I was originally going for. Go in for some whiskey, decide it's more of a rum night sort of deal.
If you are in PA....you wouldn't have a choice...that was the issuel....you couldn't just go anywhere else unless you left the state.
Ohio used to have the system were you wrote what you wanted on a slip after looking at the bottles kept in glass cases.....gave it to the clerk who then went and go itt....but they were ays pretty good about not running out of stuff...and if they did of posting it outfrount at the cases. I don't miss those days...lol..
I would never shop in a liquor store like that, most times when I go in, albeit only a few times a year anymore, I like to browse around for a bit. Even if I already have a particular brand and type in mind, every once in a while, while I'm browsing around something else catches my eye and I grab that either in addition to, or instead of what I was originally going for. Go in for some whiskey, decide it's more of a rum night sort of deal.
Well, if you were a bartender, you would be really lucky if in the years 1964 to 1970, you had the privilege of shopping at the wholesale state store in Broomall. Browse all you want while nobody else in the state had that opportunity.
I would never shop in a liquor store like that, most times when I go in, albeit only a few times a year anymore, I like to browse around for a bit. Even if I already have a particular brand and type in mind, every once in a while, while I'm browsing around something else catches my eye and I grab that either in addition to, or instead of what I was originally going for. Go in for some whiskey, decide it's more of a rum night sort of deal.
To be fair, most PA liquor stores had been converted into a more retail-style format by this time, with liquor and wine arranged on shelves that the buyer could walk/browse through and then bring their selction(s) up to a checkout counter, and there were a number of such stores available to me. I just wanted to see this particular store for the novelty of it; from my understanding, it was one of the few state stores left that still had the counter/warehouse setup rather than the more conventional retail format.
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