When your supermarket or nail salon is also the neighborhood bar

Movie theaters, grocery stores, nail salons, fast-food restaurants and other businesses that haven’t typically offered alcohol are trying their hand at it, hoping to draw customers with craft beer, wine and other offerings. Two new [Califronia] state laws have made it easier for some businesses to provide liquor.

from the LA Times 

A young fellow from Santa Cruz
would shop as he guzzled some booze.
He found that a bar
at his local bazaar
did not help him pick the right shoes.