Wait til you hear about State Stores. The day after Prohibition, our state passed a law to explicitly make it as expensive and inconvenient as possible to obtain alcohol. Plus there's always a kickback somewhere: so they invented a system where the State would do the selling of liquor, bars could sell one six pack, and beer wholesalers could sell only cases. The liquor system persists, with its original mandate, having no legal competition. The beer system is loosening slightly: until very recently, it was literally impossible to buy, say three six packs, anywhere.