Curious about your statement that the state of Kansas operates the liquor stores. I have never found one that was state-operated in Kansas, and I have patronized several in Wellington, Arkanasas City, and many in Wichita. None of them show any sign of state ownership, and they are opened, bought, sold and closed by private persons, all of whom say they are the owner(s) of them.
Living in Oklahoma, there are details in Oklahoma laws which have various curious effects. There are also curious laws in Kansas, in Missouri, in Arkansas and in Texas, all different from each other, which may result in different products being available or not available, sold in different types of stores, the products advertised or not, and numerous other variations.
In Texas, for example, liquor can be sold in durg stores, grocery stores and supermarkets, provided they are in "wet" areas. (Much of the Dallas area is "dry".) But only during certain hours and not on Sunday. When I lived in Missouri it had a different set of rules and also, like Oklahoma (and Kansas at that time), made a distinction between 3.2% beer and "strong" beer.
I have never encountered state-owned liquor stores in any of the states I've mentioned -- certainly not in Kansas -- although I know they exist in some states.
One curiosity I encounted in the greater Kansas City are quite a few years ago, when Kansas was dry and Missouri was wet, and Missouri had blue laws forbidding retail stores to be open on Sunday, was the distinction this made in traffic on the Missouri and Kansas sides.
Kansas shopping centers were jammed on Sundays, but those in Missouri were deserted. On the other hand, bars and restaurants serving strong drink were prospering on the Missouri side. (One Steak & Ale -- with full bar, of course) was on the east [Missouri] side of State Line Avenue not far from one of the busy shopping centers on the Kansas side.
Wes Leatherock snipped-for-privacy@aol.com snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com