Archive for the ‘Three Tier System’ Category
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
"The world sees the Internet as their friend, they don’t see the danger in it. I guarantee you, if I gave my daughter a gift card or a credit card tomorrow she could order a bottle of vodka on the Internet and get it three days later. They don’t see ...
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
"The misconception is that it was ever about money for wholesalers. It never was. The reason [we] don't like [direct shipping] is that it's a bad public policy."
Craig Wolf, Wine & Spirit Wholesalers Association.
Of course it's not about money. It is just a coincidence that every pro-consumer wine shipping policy ...
Posted in Three Tier System, Media, SWRA Issues | 4 Comments »
Monday, November 5th, 2007
In the course of doing research on how alcohol-related laws are constructed and passed in America I came across a document that I hadn't read in some time. It was an article written and published by the Washington State Bar Association entitled, "Time to Untie the House? Revisiting the Historical ...
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
Late last week the Governor of Wisconsin vetoed amendments to the state's budget bill that would have, if signed and had become law, revoked Wisconsin wineries' ability to sell directly to wine retailers, bypassing the wholesaler and allowing the winery to make a little bit more on each sale of ...
Posted in Three Tier System, Shipping Legislation | 2 Comments »
Thursday, October 25th, 2007
Let's try to dispel a myth. This myth is about efficiency.
Thanks to the new website created by the North Carolina Beer & Wine Wholesalers Association, the myth in question is spelled out nicely:
"The three tier distribution system also makes the most economic sense. It provides the best method for smaller ...
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
Is the three tier system bad? Does it need to go away? Is it the position of SWRA that it should be dismantled?
These are the questions that tend to arise in the course of a legislative battle over a direct shipping law in different states. They are questions that deserve ...
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