Today's "WTF?": Wal-Mart getting wine vending machines
 

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Yeah baby! Here in Pennsylvania, we'll be able to hit Wally World and get our booze from a vending machine!

PA Walmart stores getting CCTV-enabled, breathalyzin' wine vending machines

Now if only we can get ammo vending machines...

Hahaha, nice, not into wine, but an ammo vending machine would be awesome!!

My only concern when I saw the photo...
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Is there a jar of peanut butter in that dude's basket?

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Trout... care to comment / fess up? :icon_couchhide:

What about liquor and beer? In Michigan we can get both of them at wally world. It's s pita to get alcohol in pa

Seriously? From a vending machine?

So long as the state controls the vending machines, I'm pretty sure we could get anything in a vending machine. Ammo, crack, prostitutes. Wawa is getting automated Lotto machines after all :p

No. haha. Right off the shelf. In ohio you can get liquor and beer at the grocery store too but the liquor is literally half water. you gotta go to a liquor store to get real stuff:icon_shrug:

And in Pa (until now I suppose?) You were able to get beer only from the beer store (beer distributors) and liquor only from the "state" stores. (wine and spirits stores)

I wish the grocery stores sold real liquor...they dont sale anything over 21%...but a wine vending machine is kind of funny, why not just leave it on the shelf?

I'm guessing the store has no part in it. You pay the machine and the state collects and pays the store for the space used.

Exactly. Wal-mart is just a convenient place to make money. I saw something on the news about this vending machine nonsense. There's a state worker manning every one of these machines from a remote location. It scans your ID, sends the info to the worker, and he compares your pic to the one on the camera in front of you. Then they breathalyze your ass.
Buncha chit if you ask me. I'd never use one. They can go **** themselves.
Plus, I hardly ever drink wine.... and I'd probably never pass the breathalyzer anyway. LOL... j/k

So no, that's not me in that pic. :D

Our state has the dumbest, most archaic liquor laws.
Did you know in PA that you can't carry more than a 12pack from a bar at a time?? You can buy every bottle of beer/malt in the bar as long as you carry it out to your car one 12pack at a time.
And yes, liquor must be purchased at a state store. Every one I know of closes at 9pm every night. (and they're closed on sundays.)
I just stop in maryland if I need something. The prices are always a few $ cheaper anyway.