Showing posts with label bureaucracy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bureaucracy. Show all posts
Monday, May 13, 2019

How Long Does It Take?

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Two weeks ago I posted about how the PLCB inventory accuracy rate is getting worse . As I mentioned then, I wrote them an email with the ...
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Tuesday, December 5, 2017

The Gift That Keeps On Taking

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Giving and getting booze as a gift in Pennsylvania is no easy feat. Given the police-enforced monopoly that is Pennsylvania's wine and...
Tuesday, December 27, 2016

We can't do wine (but we can't do whiskey, either!)

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We recently did our annual look at how the PLCB did supplying the state with the top ten picks from Wine Spectator . But whiskey drinkers ge...
Friday, September 23, 2016

Good ol' boys instead of real businessmen

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In their continuing effort to change as little as possible (unless forced to by the threat of privatization), the PLCB appointed a bureaucra...
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Saturday, July 2, 2016

Five years & Two Months

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Well, I have to give the PLCB credit.  They said that they were actively looking for a spot to put a new store in Renovo and after 1,887 day...
Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Numbers, numbers, numbers

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Numbers you won't see in the PLCB Annual Report A look at some State Store numbers that are always missing in the PLCB's annual r...
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Monday, February 1, 2016

World Class? The PLCB doesn't even carry the top selling liquor in the world.

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Edit: It turns out that the PLCB does carry one brand under the ByeJoe brand name as an SLO (qty 6) and it is listed as " DISTILLED SP...
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Monday, November 30, 2015

Why Its Not Safe To Go Into The Woods - A PLCB Horror Story

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Not satisfied that their stupid laws, random enforcement, idiotic "interpretations," and never being checked for underage sales ar...
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Tuesday, August 4, 2015

"PLCB Modernization" means "PLCB higher prices"

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Another installment in our ongoing series of revelations about why "modernization" is a scam. We always hear about how...
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Friday, July 31, 2015

Why can't the PLCB put out financials in a reasonable amount of time? Real business does.

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The fiscal year ended on June 30th, and with it, the PLCB year. Here we are, about a month later, and not a peep from the PLCB about how the...
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Tuesday, June 30, 2015

The ISSU decides the PLCB isn't so bad.(for the moment)

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Our friends at the ISSU (Independent State Store Union, the union of the liquor store managers) have been fairly quite about privatization,...
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Sunday, January 4, 2015

The PLCB - Not taking care of the citizens again

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The one liquor store in Waynesboro closed on September 13. On August 20th the PLCB was told by the lessor that the lease -- which ended on ...
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Monday, November 10, 2014

PLCB - We only like Veterans sometimes...depends on the place and time.

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Unlike for far less important holidays, the PLCB doesn't know what the proper plan for Veteran's Day should be. From the 2014 PLCB H...
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Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Modernization won't do what the consumer wants. Part IV

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Let's look at another failed concept by the PLCB. Although they won't admit it is a failure, when nothing you want comes out of a pr...
Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Only 10% of a PLCB managers score is product knowledge. That explains a lot.

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Consider this: only 10% (approximately) of the score on the civil service test required to be promoted to management in the PLCB has to...