After 80 years they still can't do inventory

Back in November when their latest annual report was released, the PLCB touted that they had updated their website. I guess reporting bad info more inaccurately is an improvement to them.

Here are just some of the things I found this week.

Laphroaig 25 #36279  - Listed as an "On Line Exclusive!!!" which is true, as long as you don't count the ones sitting on the shelf in Allegheny county.  Plus, you don't want to take advantage of the "restructured the website search engine" they've been bragging about by searching for Laphroaig 25 instead of Laphroaig Single Malt Scotch 25...because if you do, you won't find it.

Buffalo Trace White Dog #30570 - Also listed as an On Line Exclusive, but depending where you look one PLCB website says it isn't available and the the other one says it is. One listing won't find it if you look for Buffalo Trace White Dog and the other one will.

Laphroaig Cairdeas 2014 Edition #36485 - Another one that is listed as not available in the product catalog but is on the website.

Is not the On Line store listed as a store in the annual report?  If the PLCB product catalog says "There were NO Locations found for your selected search ..." and they claim "Store inventory is accurate as of the close of the previous business day", this pretty much shows the brick-and-mortar left hand hasn't a clue what the online right hand is doing. I guess judging by the overall lack of large retail or even alcohol industry experience in the PLCB we, the citizens, should not expect a well-run organization who can keep track of what products are available for sale or not.

Maybe they need to hire an outside consultant for a few million like last time, rename the stores again, and switch the apron colors. Maybe Governor-elect Wolf  can take the executives, after they sign another pledge not to take gifts (since the first one didn't seem to work), and make them wear old Nixon buttons. You know, the ones that said "I Am Not A Crook." That should show the public they are "modernizing" and perhaps save them for a few more months.

We deserve better. If your Representative or Senator doesn't think so, ask them why. Then hit them with some of the stuff you've learned here...and ask them again.

Privatization IS Modernization!

PLCB - Moving at the speed of business. 1930's business.

Just an observation.

I like numbers, I like to see in cold hard print if things are as people claim.  This causes me to wonder why it takes over six weeks to post a pdf of a mimeographed copy of an un-audited financial report on the PLCB website?  Lately (the last few years) these reports have been showing up at the end of August but not this record year.  Maybe record slowness is part of the record year?  It's not like they don't have the info, the press release was back on August 5th so to cherry pick and report some numbers you basically have to have all the numbers available otherwise things don't match up when you do release the information to the public. There will be some interesting numbers showing up in a future blog post depending on when the PLCB hires somebody to figure out the internet for them.

Stay tuned.

Privatization IS Modernization - Accept nothing less.

UPDATE:  Here it is two weeks later and still nothing from the PLCB.  It is now two months since they released some cherry picked numbers so the question I'm asking besides what is taking so long is what are they not wanting us to see?