I went into the Jennersville state store to buy a bottle of Scotch whisky for a friend's birthday and couldn't find the one he had requested, Dalwhinnie. I asked the clerk for help and he said that although it is certainly a delicious single-malt, they didn't stock it.
"But why not?" I felt compelled to ask.
He explained that each store's inventory is determined by its volume of sales. The Kennett state store sells more, so they are assigned a higher grade and thus have more of a variety. Apparently it has nothing to do with what the store sells, or with the demographics of the area.
So he checked the Liquor Control Board's database and found that both the Kennett and Oxford stores had Dalwhinnie in stock. I chose Oxford, and he called the store to have them set aside one of their two bottles for me.
(In case you're ever looking, the Oxford state store is tucked away in the shopping center on Route 10, north of town.)
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