Anti-peeve:
All of my local grocers are closed on Christmas day. I can either figure out what I need before then, or I can figure out how to do without. Letting their workers stay home with their families today (well, now I guess it’s “yesterday”) is a good thing.
One local chain started doing this about 25 years ago and within a couple of years all the others followed, including mega chains like Kroger. Thanksgiving day, too.
Cool.
Stores in Germany are still almost all closed on Sundays & national holidays. Somehow, the fine people who live there have managed to survive.
Interbay.
That would never work in the US, where every holiday is an excuse to shop.
Yup. Many things that work quite well in Germany don’t work here at all.
Like healthcare and good public transit 
But it used to be that way here in the US. At least in Greater NYC. Stores were closed Sunday, no alcohol served before 12:00 (on Sunday). I’m talking 50+ years ago 
Liquor stores were closed in PA on Sundays up until 2003, and booze wasn’t available in supermarkets until 2016.
That’s not the kind of fun I’m talking about.
Still can’t buy alcohol here on Sundays, or in supermarkets ever, in most counties. There are a few exceptions… very few, and none of them convenient.
Stores were all closed on Sundays, including groceries. So … we went to a nearby kosher supermarket if we needed something on Sundays, because they were closed on Saturdays instead.
I think whoever posted must not shop there–it was originally reported as “West Queen Anne”.
Or maybe I’m just more pedantic about neighborhood boundaries 
I was grateful that the local Safeway was open when we found out we didn’t have enough dry mustard for the Christmas ham’s glaze.
Purely as an aside, I was surprised Christmas Day afternoon to see my local Safeway’s parking lot full. Not entirely sure how I feel about that.
We did a tour to see what was open. Minimarts, Chinese restaurants and one dive bar. And Safeway.
Well, back to supermarket pet peeves, here’s one I forgot. When you’re in the produce section and about to pull out that nice bunch of parsley and the rain shower starts! 
That ALWAYS happens to me, too! 
I feel like they are trying to boost the weight of whatever produce I’m about to buy so I have to make a big production of shaking off the excess water (over the other produce, not the floor) 
Yours don’t play a crash of thunder to warn you? I always thought that was cute. Storm’s a-comin’! 
I do that all the time, tho I don’t think it makes all that much difference in the weight. It does make a difference to me when I go to store the soggy produce at home. I should just let the store keep their water.
I remember occasions in PA when we could only buy hard stuff in State Package stores - we found that confusing (when you’re camping in the middle of nowhere and all you can buy is beer) I’ve lived in MA since 1979. They had Blue Laws in place that restricted the sale of liquor - no sales on Sundays or major holidays. Then in the 1980’s, New Hampshire started opening their liquor sales on Sundays. Not too long afterward, liquor stores within short driving distance to the NH border lobbied for permission to open on Sundays and so it rolled. Now it’s left to the discretion of the local Chief of Police to allow sales of liquor on holidays.
You can still only get the hard stuff in what we used to call “The State Store” (now “Fine Wine and Good Spirits”) in PA. Though as @linguafood notes, those stores are now open on Sundays and certain supermarkets now sell beer and wine in limited quantities.
When travelling CT seems to stand out as the most difficult\expensive place to get a bottle.
