A liquor store is a retail shop that sells prepackaged alcoholic beverages — typically in bottles — intended to be consumed off the store's premises. Depending on region and local idiom, they may also be called bottle store, off licence, bottle shop, bottle-o, ABC store, state store, package store, or other similar terms.
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—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)
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