After five years of saying and showing the PLCB that they were screwing up the listings for their #1 selling "bourbon" — as Chairman Tim Holden likes to call it — the PLCB has almost managed to get their listings for Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey correct. Although in typical fashion they have managed to get the most expensive hard to get JD wrong.
A bit hard to read but NO Jack Daniel's products are a blended whiskey as defined by the US Government.
The 2016 Laphroaig Cairdeas bottling confused them enough that they don't know what specific type of spirit it is, so they left it blank. Guys, it says "single malt Stotch" right there!
Then there is Jim Beam's Eight Star Blended Whiskey (#504228) which the PLCB thinks is also eight years old for some reason - maybe their lack of product knowledge? And what about Kinahans Irish Whiskey Blended 10 Year Old (#559929) which is stuck in with the blended whiskies. Now I know you are going to say that the bottle says "blended whiskey" right on it, but foreign whiskey does not follow same the rules as American blended whiskey. Jameson's and Bushmills are blended whiskey too, unless you get one of the Single Malt versions. It should be under the Irish Whiskey section along with all the other Irish. Again, anybody who had any real knowledge of liquor would know this.
Of course, the PLCB has the normal (for them) inability to read product labels. It is just so much trouble to get things right and hey, you can't go anywhere else so what does it matter.
If you don't like using the FWAGS website never fear they screwed it up on the flat file webpage too, calling this a blended whiskey
and getting the proof wrong.
And for the last one today there is Whistle Pig 12 year old Old World Whiskey (#559250) which says "Straight Rye Whiskey" right on the label but that doesn't stop the incompetents in Harrisburg from putting it in the blended whiskey section. Here's a tip for you, "Straight" in whiskey means it is a distinctly different product from
blended whiskey in US law. But if you are wandering around making up your own interpretations, I guess it can mean anything you want.
There are only 53 records in the WHISKEY (BLENDED) section and I found 5 that were wrong just by looking without really checking into them all so there may be more. So if we apply that ~ 10% error rate across the PLCB catalog there are over 1,000 wrong entries. Way to run like a business guys! If we could we'd fire the lot of you for incompetence.
Privatize.
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I got a little missive from somebody (probably wearing a yellow shirt) who wanted to let me know that the PLCB was doing much better and I should find other things to do. My reply was how fucked up were they to being with that a 10% or more error rate is an improvement? Still waiting for a reply back.
Inventory management, product management, warehouse management, personnel management, store management, convenience, cost management, competitive prices...... why do you think they aren't a model of success? They have come a long way!
I have to laugh whenever anyone says the PLCB has "competitive prices." They can't, because the state has made any competition with the PLCB ILLEGAL. That's the heart of the problem, and things won't get better till it goes away.
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