Grant Barrett said
What do you call the place you purchase adult beverages? Is it a liquor store or a package store? Package store is common in the Northeast, while folks in Milwaukee know it as the beer depot, and Pennsylvanians might call it the ABC store. Tell us your preferred term!
I'd like to issue a warning at this point to anyone traveling abroad who might be in the habit of calling such a place a packie. Try that in the UK and it's likely to be heard as Paki, an offensive reference to the presumably Pakistani proprietor of what we'd call a "convenience store".
In the UK, you should be asking for the "off-license".
In California, we say liquor stores. My mom from Michigan, however, calls them "party stores". I have never heard this except from her and family from the same area.
30+ years in New York? Liquor store. 30+ years in Alaska? Liquor store.
Liquor store in NY. I never knew anyone called it anything else. Love this show!