Why you can't buy wine at the supermarket

From the Village Voice:
While you can get a drink of just about any kind of fermented beverage in thousands of establishments of all sorts in this city, at just about any time of the day or night, there's one thing you still cannot do in New York: pick up a bottle of wine while you're buying groceries.
The thing is, New York's blue law isn't about lingering religious attitudes about alcohol, the way it is in places like Utah.
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