A package store withdrew its lawsuit against ABC warehouse manager Ruan Transport.
Aloha Wine & Spirits, Buckshots, Rosetti's Liquor Barrel, and Calistoga Wine & Spirits sued Ruan Transport in Harrison and Madison County circuit courts. Ruan removed the lawsuits to federal court. Earlier post.
The identical complaints charged Ruan with breach of contract, negligence, and unjust enrichment as they claimed damages for lost sales.
Ruan Transport 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.
Attorneys Michael Casano and Timothy Porter represent the package stores.
13 comments:
Why is a state warehouse necessary? Tate?
Mississippi = Baptist Iran
not sure a Baptist thing as much as it is a money grab / stupidity in government. Let the State get out of the warehousing and distribution business, put a package tax (or bottle tax / stamp tax / whatever on all spirits sold), and allow the private market to grow. Would probably quadruple tax revenue in the first quarter.
It's the only product of all the thousands and thousands of products for retain sale that has to be run through a warehouse. Good job Tate!
guess they didn't like that federal court playing field-
You’d think as a former finance guy the governor would realize the increased tax revenue from private market growth. Leading the efforts to abolish the state warehouse could become Tate’s greatest legacy as governor.
Thankfully only 1 warehouse to fix what about Department of Education where tater lawg let's hus buddies sit in sn office that manages dozens and dozens of failing schools that they allow to fail with no audits or oversight. Just on probation every year tater has been politician.
Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't the delivery and warehouse managed by a local family run business for years until someone forced the issue of cutting costs and putting it out for bid? Didn't that help create this mess? Who's hands were greased by Ruan out of Iowa?
Quietly paid off under the table?
For those that don’t pay close attention - or those who hate Tate so much or those who love to lie about him - the Governor (even back when he was Lt Gov) has strongly advocated to get the state out of the liquor business.
He recommended giving private sector wholesalers the opportunity to build in the state and he recommended abolishing the ABC warehouse.
The House agreed with the Governor.
The Senate did not.
Those are all facts.
The State's control of liquor is just a part of Mississippi's Christian version of Sharia Law.
For the poster at 7:37 a.m. - You obviously aren't a teacher or you'd have been in your classroom almost an hour ago. And your ignorance extends further than that...You claim there are no audits or oversite, then how do you explain knowing they are failing? Hint: Performance, Metrics, audits, oversite.
A governor plays no role in putting schools on probation or otherwise moving against those schools...other than to consider departmental suggestions that the failing school be seized by the state. Then, as Feel Brant, in the case of JPS, can decide against all sensible advice and refuse (or in this case, put it under Chokwe's control).
Lots of palm grease in the Senate.
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