I’m almost positive that the hours are set by law and they are something like 8 or 9am.

I would love to know why there needs to be a law for this.

Morality based laws from a long time ago. Liquor stores weren’t allowed to be open on Sundays in MA 15 years ago.

Getting an earlier start?

My therapist has a 24 hour line if you need it..

18 years. RI and MA both first allowed Sunday sales in 2004.

I didn’t know that. I just assumed RI allowed alcohol because it was where everyone went to get tattooed.

You should probably start going to AA meetings

Too religious for me

Just got out of work, want a beer before bed.

And legally bang prostitutes

Only if he has beer to share

Touché

Update from our night shift OP? Did you get your beer?

Drinking at 5 am...everything is fine

You can’t drink all day unless you start early.

On my way now! Just finished some leftover Buffalo Wild Wings, so I'm ready for a cold one.

If you're in Providence, Louis Family Restaurant on Brook St (over by Brown) does beer and wine. Pretty sure I've seen residents just off their shift at the hospital with an omelette and a beer in the mornings

As a person who used to work an overnight shift, I feel your pain. The world is not set up for people whose work day ends at 6am.

There is a thing called third shift…

In Massachusetts it goes all the way back to the Puritans, and I think RI is similar

I work nights I’ve dealt with far too many aa preachers just enjoying a beer after my shift

You’ve obviously never worked 3rd shift, nothing wrong with a beer after work. Come on down off that high horse

I shift my car into third gear all the time

It's actually a giraffe ya alcoholic

Smoke weed it's better

Back in 2017 when I lived in providence there was a liquor store that opened at 8 am on academy Ave. That’s the earliest I’ve ever seen a liquor store open in RI.

Comments like this do not help anyone. AA doesn’t stand for Arrogant Assholes but you are certainly making a strong case for it.

Why so tense? Go have a drink pal

Yep it’s the blue laws, but right over the RI/Mass line there is a convenience store that sells beer. I think it’s called Flaming Mrkt in Attleboro.

How early are the weed stores open? I saw one opened at 6am on the first day but I assumed it was a one-time deal.

LOL

8 or 9 am

And that was a relatively easy thing to justify repealing since it was a holdover from virtually nothing being open on a Sunday.

Even though there's a valid reason to remove restrictions on liquor store hours, it is a bit of a tougher sell because of the presumption that it'd just be used by alcoholics or people who've been up partying all night. That and nobody really cares enough to want to change it.

Keeping liquor stores closed a couple hours before the morning commute significantly lowers car crashes and fatalities.

Even places that have been allowing bars/clubs to be open all night often go back to closing them from around 5-8am to get less drunk drivers during peak driving hours.

God I hope so!

Talking a lot for a guy with a profile full of dick pics lol

Rippeys in Charlestown RI opens quite early (7?) IIRC. Been a bit since I’ve gone so I’d check.

fireball

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When I lived in woonsocket a couple years back J&D Liquors would open at 7:30, and google says this is still the case

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