The warehouse woes at ABC costs the state of Mississippi millions in lost tax revenue after ABC's distribution system crashed in January.
Ruan Transport manages the Gluckstadt warehouse for ABC. The company shut the warehouse down for a week in early January to take inventory. With the warehouse closed, Ruan replaced the software and conveyor belt systems. The software was not tested and did not communicate with ABC's MARS software. Ruan replaced the conveyor system with a pick a pallet system. The result was a total meltdown as shipping times skyrocketed from 48 hours to nearly a month as Ruan shipped less than 50% of cases ordered for a month, crippling casinos, restaurants, and package store owners alike.
Posted below are the percentages of the cases shipped in 2026 compared to cases shipped in 2025.
JJ obtained ABC's collections from December 2024 to February 2025 and December 2025 to February 2026 through a public records request.
ABC collected $20.4 million in January and February 2025. However, ABC's revenue fell off the cliff thanks to its warehouse woes. Revenue plummeted $7.6 million to $12.8 million for the same period in 2026.
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13 comments:
Abolish ABC. Plain and simple.
@9:20am - It was as a private company that fkd this all up. Yeah, let’s abolish and privatize it lol
Privitize it. Just another example of something that should be private-ran instead of government-ran.
Can you really recoup that lost revenue?? Those sales, and most likely reorders, are now lost in time. Kinda like "catching up on sleep". Just doesn't happen. And because of that, those lost monies should be deducted from the contractor. But we're not smart enough to have something like that in the contract.
What's the difference between a Baptist and a Methodist? A Methodist will say hello to you at the liquor store.
Fire Chris Graham. It should have been done weeks ago.
@925 - who said anything about privatizing it? Do like Louisiana and just get rid of the middle man - let the stores order from whoever they want, or let the many distributors we have in this state..you know..distribute?
Obviously Ruan should eat these millions.
@9:41. Exactly. It's very simple.
Can't thank Tate enough for his leadership!
I'll drink to this-
The entire country is experiencing shortages and bottle necks. More than a little of that can be blamed on conservatives as they try to appease the extreme right religions which oppose alcohol at all and would prohibit it's sales. Add to our CEO mentality , monopoly of the giants is getting legs. If we don't stop making decisions based on party loyalty and party agendas and start making them on the best available information, we will continue the slide to " failed state"/oligarchy.
There are two ways to do things: the easy way and the hard way. Mississippi bureaucrats always choose the hard way. Still trying to catch up since 1865.
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