Soon Oklahoma will be allowed to sell full point beer in convenience and grocery stores. With no shipments coming in, the warehouses are almost empty at this point. Soon they will be filled with the new products, but until Oct. 1 some of the stores could struggle to keep beer in stock.

With a full month before the higher point beer can hit the shelves everywhere, beer distributors will be delivering their last few truckloads of 3.2 beer soon.

“We have three warehouses starting in Ardmore, all the way down here to Altus and all of our warehouses are about this low,” manager at Southwest Sales Scott Eason said. “By Tuesday I am going to be completely out of 3.2 beer and by the end of the week I think all our warehouses will be out of 3.2 beer.”

Once the change takes effect there will be a lot more options at stores for customers.

“To be able to get everything our suppliers offer is fantastic,” Eason said. “For example, Shiner Bock in 3.2 makes two packages after the first week of September we are going to have 20 different packages of Shiner.”

Preparing for the switch over and the possibility of running out of product has made this a challenging time for businesses.

“It’s been tough,” the owner of Jimbo’s Liquor Tommy Holt said. “It’s been tough on the consumer. It’s been tough on the retailer. I don’t know how it has been on the wholesaler, but it’s been tough on the rest of us. For availability of product. Big price swings. That’s how it’s been so far. Hopefully, when it comes into effect it will be very productive for everyone but at this point, its been very hard.”

Holt has been working to expand his business in preparation for this change, spending more than $150,000 to add more coolers.

“We have added about 700 square foot of refrigeration,” Holt said. “We carry 350 different kinds of beer today before we get the big three. That’s without Budweiser, Miller, Coors or any of those. So, now to have that cold will be really big for our customers.”

While the next few weeks could be a little dry for anyone looking for beer, there will be plenty to choose from come Oct. 1.