Same pig, different shade of lipstick
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Not in the public interest
Reasons why the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board should be abolished, and The Almighty Liquor Code completely overhauled and rewritten, to reflect over 80 years of change since Repeal.
Needed: passion for privatization
"...there was [in 1997] no overarching passion within the General Assembly, or in the public at large, for privatization. Unless and until there is a general hue and cry, it is very unlikely there will be a privatization initiative that succeeds." -- John E. Jones III, former PLCB chairman
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Not in the public interest
The Reasons
- #1: We're Adults
- #2: The Two-Headed Monster
- #3: Where's the Beer?
- #4: The 18% Emergency Tax
- #5: The Liquor Code Serves the PLCB, not us
- #6: The Pennsylvania Legislature
- #7: One Problem, Everyone's Problem
- #8: Too Much Information, Too Little Privacy
- #9: Can I get a Ruling?
- #10: Only 623 Stores for the Whole State
- #11: Harrisburg is a Black Hole (for paperwork)
- #12: Like They Care -- no consumer fairness focus
- #13: Who Needs 'Em? -- anyone can collect taxes
- #14: Control Isn't Working Worth a Damn
- #15: The Case Law is Stupid
- #16: Why Control Wine & Spirits?
Contributors
Love Letters to Harrisburg
Other Sites of Interest
- Choose Responsibility -- reasons against the 21 LDA
- Divesting the PLCB: Reason.org explains how and why
- PLCB Customer Satisfaction Form
- PLCB issues -- 4-part series in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- PLCB list of beer brands currently registered in the state
- PLCB posts at the tleaves blog
- PLCB Product Search Page -- find PA booze here (I'm just trying to help the customer!)
- PLCB Users Group -- a non-official blog that does what the PLCB fails to do: tell you what's being discontinued, added/relisted, and put on clearance. What a concept!
- Repeal the Johnstown Flood Tax -- what more needs to be said?
- Seen Through a Glass -- Lew's full-service blog
- The Almighty Liquor Code -- Title 40 of PA law (searchable)
- The PLCB's website
- The Session Beer Project -- Lew's blog about 'session beers,' good beers at 4.5% ABV and under
If you've got your own reasons...
Send them to me. I'd love to hear from you, and take those ideas and blend them with mine. And if you're in favor of the continuing existence of the PLCB, well, send me that, too. If it makes sense, I'll publish; if it doesn't, I'll publish it also, but I may have to disagree with you.
20 comments:
This is the worst photoshop I've seen since you used o propagate the fake screenshots from the LCB website.
It's not medium, it's the message. Main difference between this and what the UFCW says is...we're kidding. They're lying.
It ain't even Photoshop it is just cut & paste in Paint. I did it half-assed to keep in the PLCB tradition.
I'm not sure what you men by the other part so link it please or at least post the title.
It may be just a different shade of lipstick on the pig but it also points out another problem. If you travel the state you will see all of the signage used for the stores over the past 100 years. With each new board chairman or CEO they want to create their own brand. The problem is they spend your money to start the project but never finish the job. So in the end you have a collection of stores with no consistency. Sound familiar. Customer service training? Wine training? What you get is a typical government agency operating inefficiently.
Absolutely. As of June 24th it has taken 6.25 years to do 10% of the stores.....a 60 year schedule. How much would you like to bet it never gets finished?
Well, at least I don't have to stand at a counter and watch the guy walk into the back room to bring me my bottle like I did in the 70s.
But that's certainly not progress in the modern sense, either.
You know it took over 36 years from the first self-serve store opened until the last counter store closed. Gives an idea how long "rebranding" will take....if not longer.
There is still a counter store in Pittsburgh
For retail? None of the audits since 2005 list a counter store for retail.
Robinson Blvd in the Penn Hills area. There may be more. When some self serve stores became a problem they were converted back. At least that was the case at Robinson.
LOL. this reminds me of one of those human evolution charts. You could have had State Store first and Liquor Store second in the early years, then the rest leading up to the excellent stores we have now.
Yes Al there is at least one counter store still in operation. I can verify this with first hand knowledge.
Here is their info:
Pa Wine & Spirits Store 0280
2800 Robinson Blvd
Pittsburgh,, (gotta love the patented PLCB "double comma!") PA 15235 - 1461
[Penn Hills Twp]
Phone: (412) 473 - 4204 Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
Sun 11:00 - 09:00
11:00 - 09:00
09:00 - 09:00
09:00 - 09:00
09:00 - 09:00
09:00 - 09:00
Closed
And yes it is 100% a retail store as well as one with a few licensees.
I'll have o look into the Robinson Blvd store. Could you give me a hint as to what city so I don't have to look at all 600 stores to find it.
See above. "There is still a counter store in Pittsburgh".
Amazing, why would people even go there?
To get their booze?
Misplaced nostalgia?
Does it have the little forms you used to have to fill out or do you just tell the guy what you want?
Modernization may be a lie... but despite the PLCB and UFCW being in bed together, I have a spicy story for you: on the website "Foursquare", the manager of a certain PLCB wholesale store (hint: the only one in Greater Philadelphia that is NOT in Philadelphia itself) reviewed the Walmart Supercenter store in Woodbury, NJ saying it had "great food shopping" and was so happy the groceries were "a fraction of the price" as at local supermarkets. I smell traitor! Even before Walmart sold groceries, they were protested by the more ardent union supporters for their union busting. Hmmm, now I wonder what this manager was doing in NJ anyway... buying a little something to complement those Walmart foods perhaps? This "something" is perhaps a fraction of the price in NJ at ANY store in that state compared to prices in PA...
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