I was SHOCKED when I entered my favorite neighborhood

[Ilsa]

liquor store today. I hadn't been by in probably two months. The shelves were more than half empty.

One of the owners told me that the specialized glass containers and the bottle stoppers were made overseas, and the tariffs were pricing the product out of the local market.

Another co-owner told me that five other nearby liquor stores are closing their doors due to the price increases.

I wonder how long it will take for the local magats to figure out why local businesses are closing.

BTW, I went grocery shopping yesterday for the first time in a week. I left with "sticker shock," even though I know prices had been rising.

[kimbutgar]

1. Last week when I went to Costco I noticed the shelves were emptier than usual

My husband likes to make martini’s on Saturday nights and i searched for the vodka he liked and there were only two cases. Usually there is a few rows of vodka. I told him today about it and he said he’s going to buy a few more bottles today.

[Ilsa]

2. I think some people are going to decide that they

like cheaper brands of beer, wine, and liquor because of price and availability.

[TexLaProgressive]

11. If containers aand corks, caps and whatever are tariffed

Well they may be more abstaining than drinking.

[Mosby]

18. If anything people will pay more.

American craft beer, Tito's, Seagrams, bourbons.

[rurallib]

3. bathtub gin will be will be the rage again

Way to go Benedict Donald. Another industry stimulated - home brewing!

[DENVERPOPS]

9. LOL Trump will read up on Kennedy's father

who made a fortune off bootlegging...........rum running I think they called it......
a whole new grift he can exploit.......

If you think things are bad now.......He just slapped a 50% Tariff on anything/everything coming from the EU because they wouldn't make a deal with him that was 100% in Trumps favor..........

Reminds me of a kid in our neighborhood who had the only ball. If we didn't play his way, or by his rules, he would just take his ball and go home........

[Igel]

20. Just buy the domestic stuff.

Not the hoity-toity stuff that one buys rarely or one can easily afford to buy.

I go past the $160/fifth of gin and look at the bottom shelf for the $13/1.5 l. And after replacing the occasional bottle of vodka or gin or whiskey or whatever I decided to take advantage of the "buy two and get 10% off the price". So I buy duples of whatever and some sits on the shelf (which also counts as an investment of sorts, because if the price increases I may have foregone the interest on the $13 but don't get hit with the price increase).

[Ilsa]

24. From what the store owner told me, some domestic

producers use containers and/or stoppers that are imported and will have tariffs on them.

[JustAnotherGen]

33. Bingo!

Just buy American in a Global Supply Chain doesn't work.

Patriot a missiles are made with foreign parts.

[maxsolomon]

4. Nothing of the sort at my local Safeway.

I got a fifth of Bombay Gin for $19 (plus WA state's insane liquor taxes). That's a typical price.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Smaller stores can't stockpile as large an inventory as Safeway's. Also it's regional

Much depends on where stuff is made. Bombay Gin might be bottled in UK (I really don't know); European bottled stock is not subject to US tariffs on materials from China, and UK faces lower tariff taxes entering the US.

Lots of US booze depends on bottles made in Asia, I think.

It's also regional because shortages are rolling in a wave across US from west coast eastwards since trucks and intermediate warehouses also contain inventory. The west coast feels the impact more quickly from decreased port traffic.

[rubbersole]

12. Bombay gin will put hair on your chest.

I had an affair with Bommy for about 6 months. Switched to Jameson. Stopped thinking I was Edgar Allen Poe. Went back to thinking I was Mick Jagger.

[AZ8theist]

17. Lol

[Bumbles]

6. "Valuable" lessons in economics.

[swong19104]

7. What city?

Or region in a state if you don’t want to get too specific.

[Ilsa]

25. North Georgia, so, eastern time zone.

What freaked me out was that there are 5 other liquor stores in the area shutting down.

[spike jones]

8. The weed store this morning seem to be fully stocked. All local grown I think.

[Tetrachloride]

10. Roll out the barrels or go cold turkey

[rubbersole]

13. Or Wild Turkey.

[Captain Zero]

29. Canadian Club is still reasonable around me

Trust me I'll know if it starts going up but it's also odd because it comes in barrels from Canada and is bottled in Chicago.

I stopped drinking anything from Kentucky because of Mitch McConnel. I tried to get a Kentucky booze boycott going. It fell on deaf ears around here on DU.

[BeerBarrelPolka]

19. You talkin to me?

[Tetrachloride]

22. i was born in Eastern Wisconsin. not many Polish but definitely polka ))

[Auggie]

14. I just picked up a bottle of Jim Beam for $14.99 -- sale price, no less!

Shelves at my grocery store were well-stocked.

[markodochartaigh]

15. I wonder how this will affect

Secretary of Defense Hegseth's assistants, James Beam, John Walker, and Jack Daniel?

[Abolishinist]

23. Especially after his DEI purge, which resulted in the

firing of Jose Cuervo.

[markodochartaigh]

28. Good one!

[usonian]

31. THAT'S

[lastlib]

16. You assume that MAGAts....

have the Capacity for such deductive reasoning. If they possessed it, they wouldn't be MAGAts.

[Clouds Passing]

21. Bakery goods through the roof

[RandomNumbers]

26. the local magats won't care

until it actually impacts THEM.

When the guy two doors down is impacted - even though dude was a solid republican voter - they will say it is his fault, and have no sympathy. They will defend Trump until it is themselves that are hurting. Then they will find the guy two doors over the other direction, is looking at them the same way they looked at the first guy - it is their own fault.

None of these idiots will care until it hits them directly. This country will only have a chance to recover, when enough magats REALIZE they are hurting due to the actions of their erstwhile hero.

[Ilsa]

27. But at least those trans people

will have to use right bathroom!

[pecosbob]

30. Bottle of single malt scotch went up from thirty to fifty dollars here in Las Vegas.

Chinese television I bought a few weeks ago went up from $350 to $475.

[usonian]

32. People! A minor inconvenience today is paving the way to a beeeeeeeutiful tomorrow.