Showing posts with label Money. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Money. Show all posts
Thursday, April 19, 2018

The PLCB doesn't know business; just ask them

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The PLCB plays at being a business, but they really don't know what they're doing. We've told you that many times. If you don...
Monday, January 22, 2018

A closer look at the PLCB Cash Cow

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The PLCB and the UFCW (the State Store clerks' union) have always fed the public (and the Legislature) a big lie about ...
Monday, March 27, 2017

The numbers don't lie...but somebody is

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In the House Appropriations Budget Meeting for the PLCB held earlier this month, the PLCB leadership said that they would have to dip into ...
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Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Something to look forward to.

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I don't know if you have ever watched a train wreck actually take place in front of you in real time, but it is something that you ca...
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Tuesday, August 16, 2016

What if the state ran the drugstores?

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What if other things that the state regulates were done the same half-assed way they do alcohol? For instance, how about a pharmacy? They...
Friday, May 20, 2016

Quick, Clean Up Those Liquor Laws: The Neighbors Are Visiting!

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5-20-2016: This piece has been updated after a full reading of the bill as released by Sen. McIlhinney's committee and subsequently swif...
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Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Dangerous Things

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We citizens of the Commonwealth are lied to every day by the PLCB, its associated unions, and seemingly every Democrat in the Legislature a...
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Wednesday, March 2, 2016

How PLCB buying power incompetence has cost you and me Billions

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In my last post,  PLCB "Buying Power" A Myth , (which you really should read first), I told you how for the past eighty-plus years...
Monday, February 15, 2016

We're better off privatized

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After four years, I think it is safe to say that the liquor market in Washington state has settled down. Like everything else that is sold, ...
Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Could Border Bleed Actually be $500 million?

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Everybody thinks that border bleed — Pennsylvanians going "out of control" to buy booze in other states, spurning the State Store...
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Monday, August 17, 2015

Show me the money!

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Bailment was supposed to be this great golden road to increasing the profitability of the PLCB. I'm not seeing it. If you don't k...
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Monday, August 10, 2015

Well, the PLCB released some numbers - so how did I do?

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A few days after I asked why the PLCB couldn't publish any financial numbers in a reasonable time, the House Liquor Control Committee go...
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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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Thursday, February 5, 2015

Wanna Talk Washington? Fine, Let's Talk Washington

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The latest claim by some union members and supporters is that Washington state is making less money this year than when they had a state ru...
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Wednesday, November 12, 2014

The PLCB annual report - Let's look at some numbers

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By all accounts, the PLCB had a good sales year. Well, hurray. It's nothing to brag about -- though they will, and have -- since they ar...
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Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Still more fun with PLCB numbers - Update

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Keeping up their streak, the PLCB is still giving discounts to those who drink the higher end items and shafting those who don't.  From...
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Friday, July 11, 2014

Still more fun with PLCB numbers

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Today we are going to look at some disparities in the PLCB mark-up.  Part of the so called "modernization" is to have variable pri...
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Monday, April 28, 2014

Why can't Johnny read or do math — Part 3

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If you remember in Part 2 of this saga, one anonymous poster — we’ll call him Business Rep 23 — was not able to figure out how Washi...