In NYS we have liquor stores that are state licensed but not state run, they are privately owned. They are not allowed to sell anything below a minimum alcohol content. They have wine and liquor, but no beer. Beer you can get at any grocery store or gas station, including beer with higher alcohol content than some wines, and even beer with some fruit in it, but you can't buy liquor or wine anywhere but liquor stores. Liquor stores also can't sell any kind of food or any other products, except incidentals to the consumption of liquor and wine, like flasks, wine glasses, etc, but even that is a recent change.
NYS has a large wine industry and three times we have had bills proposed to allow wine to be sold in grocery stores, and each time they were defeated with a lot of help from liquor store owners.
Damn nutty is what it all is.