How bad was the meltdown at the ABC warehouse? It was so bad that ABC was shipping half to two-thirds cases less than it shipped a year ago.
JJ filed a public records request for the shipping statistics year to date and year over year. Posted below is the raw data.
Week 1: 51%
Week 2: 34%
Week 3: 42%
Week 4: 34%
Week 5: 60%
Week 6: 80%
Week 7: 120%
Week 8: 125%
The shipping times reflect the reduced flow of cases out of the warehouse. The shipping time in 2025 averaged 2-4 days while it skyrocketed to three weeks or more for three consecutive weeks, including last week.
Package store owners and restaurant owners alike told JJ they are finally getting product they ordered a month ago.
One liquor store owner vented his frustration to WLBT.
It's an anecdote but one friend related to yours truly that he was at the bar at Char earlier this week when a gentleman ordered five different bourbons until Char finally had one in stock.
14 comments:
This is what you get when you allow a Republican Legislature to "downsize government" - no accountability.
Citizens Arrest!
Just scroll down cases pending. If the whole point of having an ABC is to collect the taxes, what's the taxes on 220,000 cases? Don't fix ABC, just abolish it.
In a free market capitalistic system, you compete or you go extinct. Competition drives efficiency and improvement and competition is exactly what we need. Let the market work.
Blood suckin bureaucrats and their warehouse of dereliction need to see immediate pink slips and a for lease sign. Private enterprise can reduce costs and increase efficiency and variety. MS can be so primitive and overbearing in many ways!
This is so dumb. To the point of 4:31, we allegedly "have to" have ABC to make sure the state collects taxes, but how much is being lost BY NOT SELLING ANYTHING? How many of us are going out of state to buy liquor and wine? Get the state out of the alcohol distribution business now!
How much have Tate and the legislators spent the new ABC warehouse under construction?
At what point does that 'investment' become a sunk cost paralyzing their ability to end the state liquor monopoly?
lolol
Unqualified company wrecks MS spirits industry. Fis problem. Make claims. Fire them. Require next to have 500 mm in coverages
Lots of alcoholics in Mississippi...
Fire Chris Graham.
Hell, the State can’t even run the State. Just look at the condition of Pers. So how did we think they …I mean “our employees” be expected to operate a state department and a liquor distribution warehouse when they have in the past not been so successful in running anything?
Let the capitalistic system bring the most efficient way to provide goods like alcohol. State will get its revenue. Or let the State open and operate grocery stores and pharmacies. What could go wrong?
This next time will be different!
"Private enterprise can reduce costs and increase efficiency and variety."
You do realize Ruan Transportation, the company that oversaw this debacle, is private enterprise, don't you?
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