Bourbon

[jfkbengals]

(10-17-2020, 01:05 PM)Donnyho Wrote: Yeah, I only paid $53. My local store is pretty good with not jacking up the prices. Others around here? Not so much.

I did see something kind of funny today. I was out, so I stopped into the Kroger liquor store. A guy goes up to the counter and asks the lady if she had the following bottles: Blantons, Elmer T Lee, EH Taylor, Eagle Rare, Buffalo Trace and Very Old Barton. Of course they don’t have them (besides the Barton. I was actually surprised they were out of BT). A second gentleman who was with the first guy says “we’re from Ohio and someone gave us a list of stuff to look for down her because he can't find it at home”. I wish Kentucky was a magical bourbon heaven where everything was available all the time at a Kroger!

That is the only advantage to VA ABC.  The price is the same in every location, unless the item is on clearance at a particular location.  Sales are available in every store statewide, so the only way you can pay more than another location is a clearance price.  I have to admit that I don't understand the clearance concept, as a product that is just taking up shelf space could be sent back to the main warehouse to be redistributed to the locations that do sell move it regularly.  Alas, I can't complain, as that is how I got my Filibuster Double Barreled for $26 instead of $47.  My buddy tasted it and liked it so much he went back and bought up the remainder!