I'm sure if the law was challenged it would be ruled unconstitutional.

I live in a largely Baptist town with a large Baptist University. There are many 40 mile Baptist here. A 40 mile Baptist is someone who drives 40 miles to have a drink so their neighbors won't see them.

I'm located in NY. Years ago my husband and I rented our spare room to his alcoholic uncle. One day he asked for a ride to Stewarts for his beer but he had to wait until after 12PM because it was on Sunday. About 6 years later I tried to purchase alcohol around 1AM (I believe it was a Friday night/Saturday morning) at walmart but they couldn't sell it after midnight. Currently the local Native reservation has signs posted with alcohol sales only from noon - 7:30PM. We're not big drinkers anyway.

No booze on Sunday around here for a long time, but not anymore.

I DON'T KNOW! I have NO idea how blue laws still exist. We got rid of ours (Davie - Broward, South Florida) not too long ago. You would think that the businesses would complain, as it has to hurt their bottom line. Since it was a city law, I would just drive a mile to the next town and buy everything I needed.
One Sunday, there was couple in front of me at COSTCO who had ALL the fun party fixins, including beer. I told them "You can't buy that until after noon." They weren't very nice and looked at me like I was crazy...well, when they got to the cash register....douchebags lol I might be crazy but I was right about THAT!

Having come from the modern side of our nation, now, not that far from you, I’ve not experienced anything like that in VA… There is one local store that doesn't sell alcohol at all..

I shop (the big store) the same time as you though, having noticed their lot’s least crowded Sunday mornings! Not sure about today … as I plan to stay off the roads anyway ~

blue laws as they were called in the north east, should be ABOLISHED along with ALL the insipid abrahamic religions. especially THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE of the abrahamics.

Well in Utah it would have to be on Monday and at the state own and ran liquor store. You are ahead of those poor residents.

Virginia used to have blue laws- there were certain things that you couldn't buy on Sunday, including clothing. My sister was away from home in a different part of the state. It was Sunday and they wouldn
t let her buy diapers.

Buy it online.

Back in the days when religion held 'sway' here in Australia I remember there being what was colloquially known as the "6 o'clock Swill" at hotels where the patrons where required by Law to cease drinking at 6 pm sharp because of a similar reason.
Plus ALL Hotels and Clubs where closed tight shut on Sunday mornings everywhere within the town/city limits UNTIL after 1.00pm on Sundays.
Many a local family would have the usual 'Sunday Lunch' then get in to the family car and head out for a 'Sunday Drive' to the nearest hotel that was well and truly outside the town/city limits.
The kids would get a 'Pub Raspberry' or 'Pub Squash' to drink and a packet of potato chips and the parents would all sit back and enjoy a beer or two.
Happily, for now at least, things here have changed for the better and Pubs and Clubs are open on Sundays.
There used to be a similar thing with Supermarkets here as well but now that too has gone by the wayside.

In the UK when I grew almost everything was closed on Sunday, all you could do was buy a paper or some milk in the morning until noon.

By the time I left pretty much everything was open on Sunday but the alcohol sections of stores were still roped off.

When I was a kid Dad had to watch the clock on Saturdays because we had to guy buy beer because the same nutcases here made it completely illegal to buy on Sundays. That was 40 years ago

What's the thinking here; that it's disrespectful to the faithful to purchase alcohol in the morning during churchgoing hours but after they let out it's now okay and won't offend Jebus?

It's so arbitrary. It's like making a law that says you can't purchase baked beans between 3:30 and 5:00 or no bananas sold on Tuesdays.

The same thing happened to me years ago, here in Michigan (I do not know if that law is still in effect). Went to the store to buy wine to make Chicken Cacciatore. It was 11:00 A.M. and I was denied inasmuch as the law requires stores to wait until noon on Sunday to sell Beer, Wine, and Liquor. It burned my ass in particular inasmuch as I am a "tea-totaler" who does not drink alcohol in any form. I ended up going home and waiting until legal hours then went back for the wine. I have often pondered the lack of logic in such a law.

laws restricting the time of sale of alcohol is pretty ridiculous from this point of view that if you really want to drink you would have bought it before it was not on sale and your case it was probably just a mistake. Well so much for your whining