AND EVERY DAY Sign (Photo: Choire Sicha)

Most neighborhood liquor stores merely need to deal with shaky alcoholics when they open in the morning. East Village Wines is coping with a far more frightening plague today: reporters.

This morning, Drudge picked up on a Reuters story from Wednesday on the First Avenue liquor store—just for kicks, the store accepts Euros as well as dollars. For journalists, this is a possibly telling anecdote about the state of the American economy!