Thursday, Jun 05, 2014 at 14:20
'I have only been able to buy one cask at a time. So involves running around if you wish to stock up.'
Isn't that crazy ?
If you can go bottle
shop to bottle
shop buying X qty at a time, why not just let people buy what they want in the first place ?
When we were in Alice a fair number of years ago after some bushwalking out the west macs . . . we bought some red, just a few bottles, to drink with meals etc at the local YHA where we stayed.
Not having experienced this sort of limited purchasing before, we asked how it works . . .
They told us limits that applied (can't recall what they were now), scanned our drivers licences, and said that any other liquor supplier in town 'knows' what was bought at their store, and you can't buy more than X in a 24hr period.
I think they said excessive daily purchases were scrutinised by some authority, and followed up of any suspicious buying patterns emerged.
All very strange but understandable.
Not sure if was just Alice, or how others NT locations operated.
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