Shipping times at the ABC warehouse are finally back to normal. Read and weep.
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As shown in the chart posted above, the backlog of cases at the warehouse is the lowest it has been all year . ABC reports shipping times are down to 2.9 days, which is where they were at the beginning of the year before Ruan Transport shut down the warehouse for um, improvements.
Ruan closed the warehouse for a week in January so it could replace the warehouse management software system and the conveyor belt system. A pick a pallet system replaced the conveyor belts, which substantially slowed down warehouse shipping. To make matters worse, the new software system was untested and did not communicate with ABC's ordering software system customers use. The result was cases piled up at the warehouse while shipping times skyrocketed, crippling ABC customers. The backlog reached a peak of 220,000 cases in early March while shipping times rose from 3 days to a month.
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State run ABC will always be a disaster. It’s only purpose is to generate tax dollars for the state.
does this mean the warehouse is finally running correctly under Ruan or is there some other trickery going on?
A package store operator told me today that their deliveries are improving but the drivers are arriving late in the day, like 8:00 pm, and last night the worker on duty had to stay 30 minutes after closing time because of the time it took to check in the order. Apparently there are some new drivers and as the operator told me the drivers didn’t seem to be in a hurry despite being told arriving so close to closing time wasn’t good for the package store personnel.
Need to compare backlog versus cases ordered for a true look. It could just be that stores are fed up and ordering less…. Causation vs correlation
My local liquor store says they still aren't receiving their orders like before. Our favorite wine is still not available. Somebody's lying...
Stores that go out of business don't place orders, so that improves the backlog.
"It could just be that stores are fed up and ordering less…"
One of us doesn't understand how liquor stores work in this state.
The system has always been and will always be a government managed cluster fuck with no purpose run by politicians to maintain local liquor stores' monopoly on liquor supplies (and keep prices inflated for us).
I feel sorry for the liquor stores and restaurants who are financially harmed by the cluster-F, but I personally don't care much anymore. We drive to Vicksburg, over the bridge to Louisiana, buy a case of whatever we want and have a much greater variety to choose from. It's a fun day trip, eat at local restaurants, look at the river and river traffic from the bluffs, wander through some antique stores, maybe take a picnic basket to the Military Park for lunch, or waste some money at the casino.
COSTCO was well stocked yesterday. More Kirkland brand than normal, though.
How many times are you going to go on about driving to Louisiana to buy booze? We've heard it.
Hooray’ now all you drunks, lushes, and folks patiently waiting for a liver transplant, can rest easy. Your poison is once again flowing!
Can we now turn to fixing the downtown Jackson Post Office.
@11:51 I would guess it is you that does not understand my comment. I’m sorry it was written above a 5th grade comprehension level. I will try to word future comments at the range of the average JJ reader.
Why not state run grocery stores? It's the same socialist enterprise? Come on RINOs, you can do it.
Mississippi Republicans are right-wing socialists, big-government dudes who think the state is superior to free markets.
Exactly!
I'm from the Mississippi state government and I'm here to screw, err, help you.
@ 10:19 if they get fed up and order less they'll probably go out of business. It ain't like they can get it elsewhere.
@10:19 - the pathetic thing is, to the Trump cult, RINOs are the ones who believe in free market economics.
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