WIGS Industry Agrees to Disagree About Who Can Receive Orders of Wine – For Now

A wide range of industry members met this Monday June 20 to discuss proposed regulations for WIGS.  Thanks to Matt Scanlan for organizing and hosting.

One hot question is whether deliveries of wine must be made to a designated manager.  Some say yes, some say no.  For now, we agreed to defer making a recommendation to the ABC – until after the dust settles from the first day of wine sales, NINE days from now.

For now, we are advising folks that wine deliveries may be accepted by any store employee, regardless of whether they hold a designated manager permit.  We caution that in the near future, the ABC may require that designated managers are the only employees that can legally accept wine deliveries.

With the wine count down, the Beatles “Revolution 9” comes to mind:

Number 9

Number 9

We never understood that song…

We believe that the best rule is to require designated manager to accept deliveries of wine.  The designated manager does not have to physically haul cases of wine, but should be at the store when wine is delivered.  In particular, invoices should be carefully reviewed upon delivery.  If the price of a variety of wine increases, the store may have to mark up the price for all bottles on hand of that variety of wine.

A designated manager is trained to understand how the 20% markup works.  No one else at the store is trained on this.

We believe the specialized training for designated managers should be put to good use.  Designated managers should be required to receive wine deliveries.

Source: https://lastcall.bonelaw.com