As ABC customers continue to suffer from the meltdown at the ABC warehouse, a House of Representatives committee moved to get them some relief today. The State Affairs Committee amended a bill to allow ABC customers to bypass the warehouse and use direct shipping to get their orders delivered.
ABC warehouse manager Ryan Transport shut down for a week in early January to take inventory. While the warehouse was closed, Ruan replaced the software system 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. *
The Senate passed SB# 2838 in February and transmitted it to the House of Representatives which in turn dutifully referred the bill to the State Affairs Committee. Committee Chairman Hank Zuber amended the bill to include relief for restaurant owners, casinos, and package stores across Mississippi.
Some highlights of the amendment are:
SECTION 2. (1) This section shall be known and may be cited as the "Emergency Alcohol Distribution Act".... 3) Notwithstanding any other provision of law: (a) A legally authorized purchaser may purchase alcoholic beverages from a legally authorized seller, and the legally authorized seller may sell and ship alcoholic beverages directly to a legally authorized purchaser. A legally authorized seller may use any method to ship, transport and deliver the alcoholic beverages to the legally authorized purchaser. (b) A legally authorized purchaser purchasing alcoholic beverages from a legally authorized seller under this section may possess and sell the alcoholic beverages in the manner authorized by the purchaser's permit.... (5) (a) There is levied and assessed upon the legally authorized seller a tax in the amount of fifteen and one-half percent (15.5%) of the sales price of each sale and/or shipment of alcoholic beverages made to a legally authorized purchaser. The legally authorized seller shall file a monthly report with the department along with a copy of the invoice for each sale and/or shipment of alcoholic beverages and remit any taxes due; however, no report shall be required for months in which no sales or shipments were made into this state....
The bill will be taken up by the House of Representatives. If passed, it will return to the Senate for concurrence. History and text of bill.
* How bad did it get? Twice ABC only shipped a third of what was ordered:
7 comments:
Fire Chris Graham.
Death of 10,000 liquor stores
Has Ryan Transport been reassigned or replace or fired?
The solution is dissolve the ABC. There is no purpose for having a government warehouse to distribute private sector retail products. Tax is collected on all other retail products with no problem without all of them going through government warehouses. ABC is the best example of the lunacy of politicians that say we should run government like a business are doing the exact opposite.
GET RID OF THE WAREHOUSE and the entire system. No one wants this!
1:54 this isnt for consumer to purchase directly. its for the liquor stores to purchase directly. and leave out ABC i guess at least for now
2:11, along those lines, I've got a dumb question. packs of cigs have the MS stamp on them, I'm assuming that means state collected taxes on them? Honestly, I don't know. When they come into the state, how do they get that stamp? Same thing with alcohol. Does it have a MS stamp too? How did they get it?
Not being an ass, I had just never thought about it until I read your post. Government warehouse to distribute private sector retain products. Good way to say it.
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