Comment Re:wow (Score 0) 135
Parent knows their PA alcohol laws...
A few low-tech loopholes already in use:
Grocery stores can't sell alcohol, but as the parent pointed out restaurants and bars can sell beer in sub-case/keg quantities. The workaround is to put a cafe in your grocery store, section the beer off near the cafe with it's own register and sell away. I know Wegman's, Whole Foods, and a few other stores do this. Whole Foods even has a little "pub" inside with taps so you can fill growlers.
BYOB restaurants can't server alcohol, but they can give it away. Mexican restaurants have "complimentary" tequila with $5 glasses of margarita mix. Other places do just give you free drinks (unfortunately far from top-shelf).
I suppose the reason this Walmart vending machine is news at all is because they are creating a loophole for liqueur and wine. Previously there was no workaround for that, state stores only (or a trip to Delaware).