Amazon Prime Now Delivers Alcohol To Your Door In One Hour.

[Sigmund]

Good evening.

Amazon Prime Now is now delivering alcohol (beer wine spirits) to your door in the Seattle area in one (two) hours. (Beer is delivered cold.)

Amazon's Prime Now delivery service launches alcohol sales in Seattle | The Verge

This service could be convenient or ...too convenient.

What do you think?

Thank you!

 

[PatInTheHat]

Eh, dedicated weed dealers been doin' it for decades,I mean if your a regular, all ya gotta do is just ask 'em, and they'll usually pick up pretty much anything ya want, hooch, snacks, job applications, laundry....
Sooo not impressed

 

[80sFan]

I like going to the liquor store (here in PA they don't sell alcohol in regular stores...you have to go to a "state store" for wine/liquor or a beer distributor for - you guessed it - beer) and choosing my own wine, but if I wanted something they don't carry, I'd like the option to order it.

 

[skimom2]

I wish! I can't even get a 'Wine of the Month Club' here. State liquor laws here are very restrictive.

 

[Lily Sawyer]

I'm okay with it...but pity the people who make those deliveries at 3:00 AM.

 

[Kurben]

Here the liquor stores close at 6 PM weekdays and some are open saturdays but sunday closed. No ordering home. And if you look innocent like you'll get asked for an ID-card. If not they are not selling. Same with tobacco. You must be over 18.

 

[muskrat]

An HOUR?!? Liquor sto just down the rud, get a cold case in, like, ten minutes.

 

[BeverleyMarsh]

That would be handy over here in Morocco

 

[FlakeNoir]

I think they're always at nate_watkins house, so some of you good folks are likely to miss out.

(just trying to see how many times we can get him back in here in a 24 hour period )

 

[nate_watkins]

I think they're always at nate_watkins house, so some of you good folks are likely to miss out.

(just trying to see how many times we can get him back in here in a 24 hour period )

At least they would be if I lived in Seattle...

Although, a whole hour seems like a long time to wait...

 

[Maskins]

One hour? I had better plan ahead, I still have 10 am, 11 am 12pm, 13pm to worry about.

 

[Out of Order]

Hic..........

 

[Pucker]

This looks like a double-edged sword to me.

I can imagine perfectly innocent situations where alcohol delivery would be a wonderful thing.

Sadly, I do not have to imagine a situation where a person with no ability to help themselves is being enabled (and slowly killed) by strangers trying to make a buck. I've seen something like this in action (I won't tell you where) and I will tell you that it is probably perfectly fine for a lot of people, but is no different than giving a child a loaded gun in certain circumstances.

For every person who can't get to the liquor store for any number of valid reasons, there is another person who can't get there because they've already been there (so to speak).

I don't like this at all.

This is a terrible idea.


End of sermon (and sorry).

 

[staropeace]

When I lived in Northeastern Alberta, there was a delivery service that did this. Some of the liquor stores here in Edmonton are open till 1:30 AM.

 

[TheRedQueen]

Could be handy in Utah or Idaho! Seriously, you need a drink just to drive through those states...

Here in Nevada, you can get moonshine at Wal Mart. I think we're good.

 

[doowopgirl]

This looks like a double-edged sword to me.

I can imagine perfectly innocent situations where alcohol delivery would be a wonderful thing.

Sadly, I do not have to imagine a situation where a person with no ability to help themselves is being enabled (and slowly killed) by strangers trying to make a buck. I've seen something like this in action (I won't tell you where) and I will tell you that it is probably perfectly fine for a lot of people, but is no different than giving a child a loaded gun in certain circumstances.

For every person who can't get to the liquor store for any number of valid reasons, there is another person who can't get there because they've already been there (so to speak).

I don't like this at all.

This is a terrible idea.


End of sermon (and sorry).

I see the same double edged sword.

 

[Pucker]

Could be handy in Utah or Idaho! Seriously, you need a drink just to drive through those states...

Here in Nevada, you can get moonshine at Wal Mart. I think we're good.

Once, in my wild, misspent youth, I travelled around the deep south (Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana) one summer doing inventories at WalMart stores. They didn't sell liquor at WalMart, but one thing you always had to keep in mind was that the next store might be in a dry county, so if you liked to pull a cork (as I did then) you had to prepare in advance for the nightly party we always had at whatever Motel 6 or Super 8 we were staying at.

Not a great job, but it can be fun being on the road and pretending -- for a little while -- that you don't really have any responsibility.

 

[GNTLGNT]