What mad genius put the liquor store next to the library and the high school? Regardless, to those of you unfamiliar with Montgomery County, liquor is only sold by the government in special stores such as this one. Privately owned stores can only sell beer and wine, and even that type of license is difficult to get.
On the up side for customers, we have one of the lowest per-gallon taxes on liquor in the entire nation, and the county stores, such as this one offer very low prices.
They can and will have sales on expensive, top shelf items that no privately owned liquor store would ever match.
My suggestion is to lose your brand loyalty and adopt a 'best deal' mentality. I've really branched out and tried a lot of different types of Scotch, Irish Whiskey, Canadian Whiskey, Sour Mash Whiskey, Rye, and Bourbon as a result, 1L bottles of Crown Royal Black for $30 and 1.75L bottles of Jameson's for $38 are two of the most consistent good deals I have found.
On a special note, during the holidays, these stores will sell fancy gift packages for the SAME LOW PRICE as the regular bottles. That means if you have drinkers on your gift list, you can get them Jagermeister Shot Glasses, Glenlivet Rocks glasses, Milagro margarita kits, and much much more for just the base cost of the bottle. My coworker flipped out when I got her an Amaretto coffee mug gift pack. read more