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| Just a tad below 'Luxury', says the PLCB |
82% of the non-SLO wines listed are Luxury items, including all of the so-called "Chairman's Selections", and ALL of these wines are selected by the Luxury Product Team...six people in Harrisburg. The PLCB says that "Luxury Product wines are personally selected by our Luxury Product Team." Since there is also a Chairman's Selection team and all Chairman's Selections are Luxury items, I guess they get selected twice.
The selection criteria is stated as, "The products are managed geographically and reviewed for soundness, price/value relationship, and market appeal. The luxury division reviews wines during offering periods throughout the calendar year to insure a constant flow of the world’s best wines into our premium collection stores." No mention about tasting, just the marketing, which given that there aren't any highly wine certified people in the PLCB makes sense....unless you are a consumer who isn't allowed to go anywhere else and choose for themselves.
Could you imagine 6 people actually trying to taste 11,000+ wines that would be only...let's see...11,146 divided by six is 1,857 each, over 240 work days, or just under 8 wines per day every work day. Doable but not feasible.Or maybe they get together every Friday and do 38 different wines each. More likely they don't try the majority of the wines selected as "Luxury."
The PLCB where Luxury starts at $5.49. God help us rid ourselves of these idiots.
Privatize.
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Thanks to a Republican congressman having an office next door (yes in a shopping center!), the PLCB store in Drexel Hill (Upper Darby Township, Delaware County) has a GIGANTIC premium collection walk-in chiller. Maybe until privatization happens in the 2030s, we should see to it that a politician (either Republican or Democratic) gets to have an office next to every PLCB store, so that the PLCB does justice to "luxury"... NOT the "luxury" that starts just above Mad Dog.
Boring. You should do a piece on the LCB date rape prevention ad like you did on Facebook. What happened to that anyway?
No, I don't think so. That's old news, and it was offensive then.
Glad to see you read and keep up.
The PLCB defines "Luxury item" as short supply SKU's including the Chairman selection great buys available in premium collection and specialty stores. To them it's a marketing category. Albert pulls the dictionary definition and wastes our valuable time arguing against a srawman. Typical. Nice job Al. You boned the people again.
John: simple rules. Keep to topic. Stay focused. If you can't do that, I'm not going to allow your comments through. Come to think of it, my last comment's not really on-topic either, so I'm taking it down. You don't really help the tone of a discussion.
WOW 82% orf wines are in short supply in PA. So much for buying power eh?
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