new delhi unlike the previous unlock phase last year no serpentine queues fights or chaos were seen outside liquor shops on monday morning when the shutters opened after a gap of over 15 months some outlets opened on an oddeven basis but did not have stock of popular brands while others were seen carrying out maintenance work with their shutters half open at one of the shops the staff said that when they would open next on wednesday their stock would be replenished while through the day barely 510 people were seen outside many shops by the evening footfall started to grow in locations like gole market the wine and beer shop in savitri complex near greater kailash was closed but the outlet in kohinoor mall was open we are closed for the day but the shop is operating smoothly at the other nearby location in kohinoor mall which is also owned by the same operator said a staff member the liquor shop near hauz khas metro station in august kranti marg intersection was open with barely 34 people around a disappointed sadhu sharma said the shop did not have any of the brands he wanted the staff said they had not been able to replenish their stock since the lockdown and were selling leftover brands they had available a similar situation prevailed at shop 1a in dda shopping centre phase2 munirka where regular brands had run out of stock rakesh mewati a customer said only expensive brands were available we will have to wait for a few more days for the situation to normalise the lockdown was much longer last year and the liquor shops in noida and gurgaon have opened only sometime back in the current lockdown he added the staff at several liquor shops said many customers had been enquiring about home delivery option but they had no idea when that would start the two liquor vends near capital court in rk puram were open but reported a similar problem of low stock several shops including those along vikas marg were closed while shops in mayur vihar phase1 acharya niketan barely had a couple of customers around noon many sites reportedly had increased footfall by evening but the situation remained under control