It is the lament of other businesses and of residents in Playa de Palma that these shops - tourist supermarkets - don't stick to the rules. But for the most part they do, and so after 9.30 an illegal trade flourishes. Street sellers carry buckets of beer and bags with other drink, e.g. vodka. They mingle with the other street sellers peddling anything from football shirts to hats shaped like roast chicken and perhaps other 'items'.
Surveying the debris left by street-drinking gatherings, themselves prohibited (theoretically), the brands of the alcohol are the same. They are supplied by the street sellers, who at night become the main source of alcohol supply, unless people go to bars and clubs.
The police do their best in attempting to contain all this, but the other lament, often repeated, is that there simply aren't enough police for the great numbers of tourists and indeed street sellers. It falls to the Palma force to deal with this, as illegal street selling isn't a National Police responsibility.
The excesses law may have sought to remove one source of alcohol supply, but it has failed to prevent another, which is a direct consequence of the law.
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Make everything legal. Problem solved.
We have Discussed this problem on many occasions and it’s fine to pass all these laws but if you don’t have the resources to enforse the laws you can forget it , Mallorca has a winter season and a summer season and in the summer there are simply not enough Police to control all the illegal activities , Drugs , prostitution and Selling Illegaly in various places all over the show !!