Mecklenburg County ABC Store 23

So it’s Saturday evening and my wife and I just finish a hike in the Nature Preserve. I’m thinking I would like to make a drink so we haul up to ABC Store #23 before they close. I wait in the long line until finally Elaine, an older lady, calls me up to checkout. She looks at my ID, gives me a weird look, and asks if I’ve been drinking today. I laugh and say no but she’s not convinced. I don’t know if it was the sort of genius that comes from watching Murder She Wrote or just the general wisdom that comes with age, but she knew I’d been boozing. Except I hadn’t…I drink maybe once a month. She denies me service without testing my sobriety in any way. I talk to her Manager, Brandon, who says they are only not allowed to discriminate based on race or religion. So I leave with a good story to tell my wife in the car, who is surprised Elaine let me drive away thinking I was drunk. Haha! Interesting experience. So yeah, 1 star.

The staff is always very helpful and really quick… Even if there’s a line, it moves swiftly… The prices are what you’d expect, so there are no surprises there… One of the cooler things about this place is they have a table set up right when you walk in where they put things that are either being discontinued or no longer carried by the store…
The parking lot is almost always crazy if you go on a Friday or holiday weekend… Make sure you go in through the back way and park on the side of the store instead of the front… It’ll save you all sorts of headaches…

Picked up a bottle of wine before heading to a nearby hotel. State run store, being from NY, it’s the same prices I usually pay. Friendly people.

Booze! In North Carolina, spirits are sold at officially licensed state-​run shops and this is the one for south Charlotte. Because there is no competition in the marketplace, you can expect standardized prices with few specials or deals. The folks behind the counter are okay, but they’re far from the expert that you might want if you were looking for knowledge.
But the store is clean and it’s well stocked and it has most everything.