Jackson Jambalaya

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.

I used to know a guy who supplied ice to the French Quarter. He HATED when Baptists were having a convention in New Orleans, because they'd sit and drink in their hotel rooms (hotels have ice machines), rather than drink in bars/eateries. His sales would plummet.

Methodists don't care what YOU do. And they send the maid to the liquor store, to buy the sherry for making their Lady Baltimore Cakes and Charlottes Russe: because they FEEL DIRTY going into "those places". But it has nothing to do with "sin", and much to do with concrete physical reasons why drinking is a stupid behavior indulged-in by inferior people who really ought to be exterminated.

a contractor does operate the facility but it's still a unneeded inefficient single choke point in the supply chain.

40 years ago I thought Utah had the most absurd system of allowing people to drink if they were willing to act as if they were sinning. But, we may have outdone em.

Regardless of whether or not you are in the city, you can find establishments to grab alcohol in the more rural areas of Utah as well. While it may not be as convenient to find alcohol in the farther reaches, it is available, and the same laws that apply in SLC apply there as well. These laws help regulate price, which means your favorite bottle will cost the same regardless of the liquor store — no additional markup beyond statute at remote retail outposts or resort towns. Restaurants and bars, of course, can set their own price for drinks.
https://www.visitutah.com/articles/utah-liquor-laws-visitor-guide

It wasn't broke. Didn't need fixing. Whoever the state legislator-grifter was that steered the contract to his brother in law should have to make up for that lost revenue.

In Austin TX, enormous warehouse liquor stores are stocked to the rafters, including alcoholic beverage brands and vintages unheard of in MS. The familiar brands cost 15%-20% less the last time I compared. ABC has gone D&F for cost and service, dump it already!

Why can't I buy (real) wine in grocery stores as sold in surrounding SE states?

Troll alert

Who cares what the state lost, think about the damage to the liquor stores and restaurants, it's unconscionable to have the state damage businesses like this, even through a 3rd party.

1. To the Baptists that will say “I don’t drink and I feel good,” why don’t you shut up? No one cares that you don’t drink.
2. Fix the conveyor belt. That will help logistically. It’s that simple.

17 or 18 states operate a warehouse system. MS has the only single, state-owned warehouse.

No need to privatize. The private company running the warehouse is privatization in all but name. Abolish it and let the store order directly from the distributor.

Google the accounting definition of sunk cost. That's where we are.

Could have had a warehouse for each region: North, Central, South but noooooooo.