It was only a few hours later, after I had a chance to talk to a local friend, that I learned it is common in the area to have most of the liquor in local liquor stores behind the counter. That’s where everything except for the less expensive beer and wines were located. The inventory here is not huge, but it’s adequate. The guy who checked us out was both fun and funny. He was really getting into the music playing, but he should spend a bit more time getting to know the prices of some of the non-alcoholic products in the store(like mixers) — people buy those sometimes too.