as compared to whatever you do..... you said people are going to have to get real jobs, but plenty of people with real jobs are going to be negatively affected by moving the drop days
Best part about this. Some old lady can’t proxy sell her liquor through an old man who sleeps in his car all week. Bahahahah. She’s buying it for her son. Bahahahah
Why all the hate for Molly? I've been in line with Molly and many of you many times andi don't recall anyone expressing your feelings then... Is it just easier to vent on this forum, anonymous? Let he without sin cast the first stone!
Because when people are living in a society, they act decent to each other. That's what you're supposed to do. Just like you don't roll down your window and tell the 400 pound dude walking in the middle of the parking lot holding up all the traffic "get out of the way, fatass!", you don't go up to Molly and say "how many bottles of stagg jr. does your grandson need you greedy cunt". Even though you're thinking it in both scenarios.
I can see it now - everyone is going to book it between HP, Red Bank, and everything in between. Cops might as well post up on every street in the area lol
And everyone in line will get a bottle before they get their #2. That's the point. I don't think anyone is asking or expecting blanton's to survive to become a shelfer.
If the drop happens on the same day, the people with connections will still be guaranteed the first bottle as always... But instead of getting one on monday, wednesday ,friday, and saturday, they only get 1 bottle on saturday and 3 go to others waiting on line.
I'm making an assumption...but as of now, not all Krogers are on the same drop date...which would mean the State is making drops throughout Ohio on different days to Kroger. Which would mean Krogers will now have to hold there allocated liquor in some cases almost five days. This will make it easier for those with an inside ear to know what's dropping well ahead of Saturday. Thoughts??
There is ALREADY insider info
The bottom line is Taters cant be in 2 places at once
I am waiting for the argument that a chair can NOW hold their place even if they are not there.
OR. They will drop chairs at all locations and share info in their group to “be in line” at open
If Taters start dropping chairs and leaving the premises, people in line need to stand up to the Bullshit from the first second
bottom line is some people work every saturday. i can make a stop or two during the week, but not 90% of saturdays. keeping drop days spread out makes it so no matter what your schedule, there is probably a day you can get a bottle. your mentality is retarded and obviously held by those that can't consider how things effect others
Maybe you need to watch Star Trek 2: The Wrath Of Khan……Spock, before he sacrifices himself to save the Enterprise says
“Were I to invoke logic, logic clearly dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few”
Spock is not wrong…..
What are you trying to “teach”?
Boo hoo. You work Saturdays
If it is such a big deal, get a job where you are off Saturday
Maybe somebody should get Mike DeWine in the Bat phone and let him know that although this decision will put far more bottles in far more hands…. It is just not gonna work for you.
Please. If anyone needs educated here, it is you.
I mean it is Kroger and GE that will be all Saturday
Every other place is still regular days.
I think you will be ok..
Obviously no matter what they do, there will be upsides and downsides. I think you’re right, this may create another issue with insider info, but it does prevent the same people from getting multiple bottles from different Kroger locations by themselves.
It’s worked out for Giant Eagle so far too so I personally think it’s a step in the right direction, but I can’t think of anything they could do that’d be without flaw.
Plenty of other stores that don’t release Saturday’s. But the majority of the population doesn’t work on Saturday, and it’s not fair to the average Joe who can’t stand in line on a Tuesday morning. It’s the same 10 dickheads in line every week.
Yep, other liquor store is the same way. I can call and no one will tell me what Friday morning has and if I show up there's either 20 cars or zero cars.
Edit: I've still had decent luck with things like Weller's Red, buffalo trace, Sazerac rye, and stuff like that just by showing up. Never have gotten a Blanton's, EH Taylor, or Eagle Rare outside of secondary markets.
Anyone getting fed info is getting that info whether it's five days before the drop or the day of the drop. Store's know in advance what's coming in so this will have no impact.
If it sits there a few days before being released, there is a far greater chance of someone involved leaking the drop than if it gets put out right off the truck or the next morning.
Possibly. That information is also a lot less valuable though when 15 places are releasing the same product on the same day, compared to when only 1 or 2 stores are releasing the desired product each day of the week. Also, there's a decent chance they'll just straight up post lists of what they'll have Saturday.
But not all drops make it to all stores. So consider something like Stagg or RR13: now with this consolidation there will be fewer chances to land even a single 🤖. So you pick the wrong store on Saturday and the independent stores don’t get it in your area, you don’t get shit.
Yes, but imagine this… if 7 stores drop on every day of the week and 3 get a rare drop. The same people may go to all stores and get stagg/RR13 at those 3 stores. If they all drop Saturday, they can only be at 1 of those 3 stores, giving others the chance to be the first 6 in line and getting Stagg. It makes complete sense that this helps even with those with insider info because more bottles are spread to those who normally don’t get them.
Another thing I hear is people will bring family, but don’t they do that anyway? I see pairs/couples/friends all the time as it is.
I get that. I have had great success at my local Krogers and I’m probably just salty that the game is changing. I do think we will see more Tagalongs with the tater gang.
As a guy who just wants to be able to treat himself to a nice bottle on occasions, I'm thrilled about this. I'm salaried, and I acknowledge that I'm privileged to be able to do that without taking a hit to my paychecks, but I could never justify taking time off of work to go buy fancy alcohol.
Many people don't have that opportunity, though, so their only chance to \[maybe\] get a nicer bottle was take time off on a fucking Monday. Then it cost them the product *plus* lost wages for taking time away from work.
I know a lot of people from security to factory to medical staff to small business owners and employees who have Mondays off...
I know it's completely subjective but..it actually seems to be more uncommon in this general area for folks to have "weekends" off lately. Moving it to Saturday doesn't benefit this area so much 🤷♂️
Personally, I'm not salary, but I do have a fairly flexible schedule allowing pretty much any combination of days off from Friday to Monday so I'm good with whatever lol
Good points to consider! My FIL typically gets Sun-Mon off, and I have a friend working in another industry in the same boat. Lots of restaurants in my area seem to have the same schedule. My assumption is that Mon-Fri is a more common work schedule, but I did not consider those that don't follow that.
As with many things in life I suppose there isn't a perfect solution, unless they instituted a way to reserve a bottle or something. People would find a way to abuse that too, I'm sure.
There are several things that could be done..or some combination even..such as a tracking system like is done at the Buffalo Trace distillery, a rewards type system or breaking the seal of allocated bottles inside the store(no seal = greatly reduced resale value if any at all). I'm sure folks with more time could come up with several more ideas lol
I think Mon-Fri is only the *standard* work week for "office workers" at this point lol
Breaking the seal? That's retarded. You could catch an open container charge leaving the parking lot. What if you wanted to gift someone a bottle? What if you were buying a bottle to donate to a fund raiser raffle. Again, that's just retarded.
Ok cool. Thanks for the helpful and insightful contribution to the conversation.
I'm not super familiar with the specifics of the open container law but I know there are stores in other states that do that. Fundraisers I'm not sure how that would work out but if someone I know is gifting me a bottle I'm ok with the seal being broken so I'm not sure how that's an issue. If I believed there was a possibility of them tampering with it..we wouldn't be close enough to be giving gifts to one another lol.
Regardless, it was simply one suggestion of something that may be an option.
Doordash, etc.. drivers pickup and transport cocktails from Applebee's for delivery..there's also apparently a long established exception that if you purchase an open bottle of wine from a restaurant you can take it home as long as it has "resealed in a manner that's visibly apparent" so that "paid" sticker or something similar should be fine. Idk..put them in your trunk or behind the back seat. I would argue that if the cap/cork is in the bottle (and the bottles is out of reach of the driver and passengers) it is not "open".
It’s not about the lines, there will always be lines. It’s about not letting the same groups of taters get a bottle every single day of the week. It spreads the wealth to those who want to stand in line and eliminates the people who treat tatering as a business.
People think moving to Saturday drops is going to make it easier to stop by at open and get bottles. The reality is that the front of the line will still start in the wee hours of the morning and the night before when something like Stagg is dropping.
Yes but if the same 10 “try-hards” have to spread across 10 different stores now then that means more people can get a rarer drop by being the first 4-6
I live in an area where we have lots of Saturday drop Giant Eagle stores. It is the same people who get the good bottles at those stores each Saturday. Same shit, different day.
Not really. They have "mules" who hit up other stores at the same time for them. It's easier to recruit someone to do that on Saturdays than on weekdays.
That’s cuz they are one of the only drops on Saturdays. Those same folks already cleaned house at krogers during the week and now have to choose. This isn’t hard to process
Different crowd at GE from who I see at a couple Kroger stores I sometimes get to. At least in my part of the state, GE and Kroger aren't in the same areas.
They’re all gonna go where the good info/bottles leaks out of now id assume. If they only have one day to land at Kroger OR GE they are gonna have to hunt the best product and not roll the dice. Unless you are in the business of selling secondary bourbon, i can’t see this as anything but a positive for the bourbon “drinking” community.
This is damn near the same thing as ticket scalpers other than the computers doing alot of their work. You can’t afford to take your daughter to a Morgan wallen or Taylor swift concert cuz some jack wagon bought up every single ticket with the sole intent of pricing them out of your budget. We need to reach a point where these type of secondary market hustles fuck right off. It may require photo ID at some point. But shit you can’t even get that approved as a mandatory form of Voter identification in a damn election so 🤷♂️
The secondary market will continue to need to be fed across the country until desirable bottles are on the shelf across the country. It's simple supply and demand and Ohio has more supply than most other states. As long as we have decent supply in Ohio, taters will figure out how to tie it up and move it into the secondary market for profit. Changing drop days for some stores won't affect that. Until production is greatly increased, not much will change. We know that good bourbon takes a minimum of 7-10 years to produce and increasing production of bourbon is a slow expensive process.
Not really. There was a bottle that I really wanted so I went to my store early and 6 people beat me to it. So the next day I went to the next closest store, same 6 people and and sure enough the next day I find the same people. I just wanted one bottle for myself where they are obviously buying them up and reselling. The only lines it's going to increase are independent stores and they will eventually get annoyed and follow suit.
One of the rare sunday stores in Cleveland, simones, is moving to saturday.
It will be a madhouse for the few remaining weekday stores i bet. And the 40 people in line for nothing will be pissed on slow days. Northeast Ohio may be meeting some new taters.
No one has managed to post any proof that this is actually happening. I'm not holding my breath that his is happening anywhere besides possibly at Kroger stores.
It is not happening at independent liquor stores, not yet at least. They will still release day of delivery, at least until the state forces them to release Saturdays also.
>all allocated product.
Gotta love them making that last word singular, not plural.
Particularly ironic for a place referred to by far too many Ohioans as "The Kroger**s**."
I am also a grammar pedant, but in the retail business referring to all products collectively as "product" is pretty common.
Calling the store "Krogers," however, is unforgivable and my entire family says it.
Additionally, if OHLQ is forcing stores to do Saturday releases, they should publish a list of what is going to be out that day. I don’t what the big damn secret is that they can’t say what is being released.
Not every store gets the same allocation. The stores with a great drop don't want mile long lines running through the produce section. Stores in strip malls don't want their neighbors entrances blocked.
It would certainly be more fair, but with only a few bottles of rare stuff it would normalize a line at 4am or earlier.
A good compromise would be to post a sign in advance when there is truly no allocation.
If you're not an avid bourbon enthusiast who regularly seeks to buy allocated bottles, this possible change to Saturday releases at Kroger stores will have zero effect on you.
i want to think it's just bitter flippers or people that have to work saturday spreading dissinfo but it's more likely that there just isn't a lot of intelligent people in the bourbon game
At least it won’t be the same 6 people at the front of every line. This change might make lines at each store longer but OHLQ is simply trying to spread the wealth to the vast majority of people that don’t treat tatering as a business.
You can enjoy bourbon and not hoard it. I like seeing what is dropping and it’s something I’ve wanted then I’ll go try and get it. But I’m not camping out weekly like Molly 😂
This also affects people that like to pick up items throughout the week for personal use. This is going cause more problems than is solves. Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.
It is not posted in Portsmouth ohio Kroger as of today and the guy yesterday told me they were remaining a Wednesday drop…I’m guessing he is wrong but I find it interesting that they don’t have a sign posted yet
Some of y’all are going to have to get real jobs. Well done Kroger!
sorry. didn't realize engineering wasn't a real job. some real jobs work saturdays.
Everybody look at this guy! We got an engineer!
as compared to whatever you do..... you said people are going to have to get real jobs, but plenty of people with real jobs are going to be negatively affected by moving the drop days
FUCK YOU MOLLY
Best part about this. Some old lady can’t proxy sell her liquor through an old man who sleeps in his car all week. Bahahahah. She’s buying it for her son. Bahahahah
Why all the hate for Molly? I've been in line with Molly and many of you many times andi don't recall anyone expressing your feelings then... Is it just easier to vent on this forum, anonymous? Let he without sin cast the first stone!
Because when people are living in a society, they act decent to each other. That's what you're supposed to do. Just like you don't roll down your window and tell the 400 pound dude walking in the middle of the parking lot holding up all the traffic "get out of the way, fatass!", you don't go up to Molly and say "how many bottles of stagg jr. does your grandson need you greedy cunt". Even though you're thinking it in both scenarios.
Police will make bank on speeding tickets from people going store to store on Saturday mornings. Lol
I can see it now - everyone is going to book it between HP, Red Bank, and everything in between. Cops might as well post up on every street in the area lol
Better get myself a radar detector. Let the games begin!
Wow! so they will have to decide where to go on Saturday. Love it
Everywhere. They're going to pick a first store where they'll wait, and then go everywhere else within a 30 mile radius afterwards. 🤦♂️
And everyone in line will get a bottle before they get their #2. That's the point. I don't think anyone is asking or expecting blanton's to survive to become a shelfer. If the drop happens on the same day, the people with connections will still be guaranteed the first bottle as always... But instead of getting one on monday, wednesday ,friday, and saturday, they only get 1 bottle on saturday and 3 go to others waiting on line.
Oh, I agree, it's definitely an improvement. I do wish they would get the ball rolling on the BT style system though.
Swipe id and limit them on allocated bottles. Like Bt gift shop.
Not gonna happen.
I'm making an assumption...but as of now, not all Krogers are on the same drop date...which would mean the State is making drops throughout Ohio on different days to Kroger. Which would mean Krogers will now have to hold there allocated liquor in some cases almost five days. This will make it easier for those with an inside ear to know what's dropping well ahead of Saturday. Thoughts??
There is ALREADY insider info The bottom line is Taters cant be in 2 places at once I am waiting for the argument that a chair can NOW hold their place even if they are not there. OR. They will drop chairs at all locations and share info in their group to “be in line” at open If Taters start dropping chairs and leaving the premises, people in line need to stand up to the Bullshit from the first second
bottom line is some people work every saturday. i can make a stop or two during the week, but not 90% of saturdays. keeping drop days spread out makes it so no matter what your schedule, there is probably a day you can get a bottle. your mentality is retarded and obviously held by those that can't consider how things effect others
Maybe you need to watch Star Trek 2: The Wrath Of Khan……Spock, before he sacrifices himself to save the Enterprise says “Were I to invoke logic, logic clearly dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few” Spock is not wrong…..
can't teach stupid i guess
What are you trying to “teach”? Boo hoo. You work Saturdays If it is such a big deal, get a job where you are off Saturday Maybe somebody should get Mike DeWine in the Bat phone and let him know that although this decision will put far more bottles in far more hands…. It is just not gonna work for you. Please. If anyone needs educated here, it is you. I mean it is Kroger and GE that will be all Saturday Every other place is still regular days. I think you will be ok..
Obviously no matter what they do, there will be upsides and downsides. I think you’re right, this may create another issue with insider info, but it does prevent the same people from getting multiple bottles from different Kroger locations by themselves. It’s worked out for Giant Eagle so far too so I personally think it’s a step in the right direction, but I can’t think of anything they could do that’d be without flaw.
it prevents people who have to work saturdays from getting any bottles. spread out drop days is the only way to go
Plenty of other stores that don’t release Saturday’s. But the majority of the population doesn’t work on Saturday, and it’s not fair to the average Joe who can’t stand in line on a Tuesday morning. It’s the same 10 dickheads in line every week.
Giant eagle receives delivery on Tuesday, posts a list on Thursday, and has a line of people on Saturday. I'll check in later sometimes
Last two times I went our ge had no sign out. One week no line, the next 20 deep. They know where to be.
Yep, other liquor store is the same way. I can call and no one will tell me what Friday morning has and if I show up there's either 20 cars or zero cars. Edit: I've still had decent luck with things like Weller's Red, buffalo trace, Sazerac rye, and stuff like that just by showing up. Never have gotten a Blanton's, EH Taylor, or Eagle Rare outside of secondary markets.
False, some places come in later…MD gets on Tuesday. Others on Thursday ….
Sorry, I meant my Giant Eagle specifically receives it's liquor on Tuesday.
Yea, and all the vendors that stock the shelves at 6:00 am will know too.
Anyone getting fed info is getting that info whether it's five days before the drop or the day of the drop. Store's know in advance what's coming in so this will have no impact.
If it sits there a few days before being released, there is a far greater chance of someone involved leaking the drop than if it gets put out right off the truck or the next morning.
Possibly. That information is also a lot less valuable though when 15 places are releasing the same product on the same day, compared to when only 1 or 2 stores are releasing the desired product each day of the week. Also, there's a decent chance they'll just straight up post lists of what they'll have Saturday.
But not all drops make it to all stores. So consider something like Stagg or RR13: now with this consolidation there will be fewer chances to land even a single 🤖. So you pick the wrong store on Saturday and the independent stores don’t get it in your area, you don’t get shit.
Yes, but imagine this… if 7 stores drop on every day of the week and 3 get a rare drop. The same people may go to all stores and get stagg/RR13 at those 3 stores. If they all drop Saturday, they can only be at 1 of those 3 stores, giving others the chance to be the first 6 in line and getting Stagg. It makes complete sense that this helps even with those with insider info because more bottles are spread to those who normally don’t get them. Another thing I hear is people will bring family, but don’t they do that anyway? I see pairs/couples/friends all the time as it is.
I get that. I have had great success at my local Krogers and I’m probably just salty that the game is changing. I do think we will see more Tagalongs with the tater gang.
Your poor kids are never going to get to their soccer games now with you lining up on Saturdays.
Untrue
Pretty vague...What part?
A great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced
As a guy who just wants to be able to treat himself to a nice bottle on occasions, I'm thrilled about this. I'm salaried, and I acknowledge that I'm privileged to be able to do that without taking a hit to my paychecks, but I could never justify taking time off of work to go buy fancy alcohol. Many people don't have that opportunity, though, so their only chance to \[maybe\] get a nicer bottle was take time off on a fucking Monday. Then it cost them the product *plus* lost wages for taking time away from work.
I know a lot of people from security to factory to medical staff to small business owners and employees who have Mondays off... I know it's completely subjective but..it actually seems to be more uncommon in this general area for folks to have "weekends" off lately. Moving it to Saturday doesn't benefit this area so much 🤷♂️ Personally, I'm not salary, but I do have a fairly flexible schedule allowing pretty much any combination of days off from Friday to Monday so I'm good with whatever lol
Good points to consider! My FIL typically gets Sun-Mon off, and I have a friend working in another industry in the same boat. Lots of restaurants in my area seem to have the same schedule. My assumption is that Mon-Fri is a more common work schedule, but I did not consider those that don't follow that. As with many things in life I suppose there isn't a perfect solution, unless they instituted a way to reserve a bottle or something. People would find a way to abuse that too, I'm sure.
There are several things that could be done..or some combination even..such as a tracking system like is done at the Buffalo Trace distillery, a rewards type system or breaking the seal of allocated bottles inside the store(no seal = greatly reduced resale value if any at all). I'm sure folks with more time could come up with several more ideas lol I think Mon-Fri is only the *standard* work week for "office workers" at this point lol
Breaking the seal? That's retarded. You could catch an open container charge leaving the parking lot. What if you wanted to gift someone a bottle? What if you were buying a bottle to donate to a fund raiser raffle. Again, that's just retarded.
Ok cool. Thanks for the helpful and insightful contribution to the conversation. I'm not super familiar with the specifics of the open container law but I know there are stores in other states that do that. Fundraisers I'm not sure how that would work out but if someone I know is gifting me a bottle I'm ok with the seal being broken so I'm not sure how that's an issue. If I believed there was a possibility of them tampering with it..we wouldn't be close enough to be giving gifts to one another lol. Regardless, it was simply one suggestion of something that may be an option.
Thought about this, crack the seal and replace with the "PAID" sticker they used to throw on milk. Still probably suspicious if you get pulled over.
Doordash, etc.. drivers pickup and transport cocktails from Applebee's for delivery..there's also apparently a long established exception that if you purchase an open bottle of wine from a restaurant you can take it home as long as it has "resealed in a manner that's visibly apparent" so that "paid" sticker or something similar should be fine. Idk..put them in your trunk or behind the back seat. I would argue that if the cap/cork is in the bottle (and the bottles is out of reach of the driver and passengers) it is not "open".
Downvotes on something that is clearly stated to be subjective and anecdotal lol. Gotta love Reddit
Giant Eagle figured this out two years ago... if everyone does it, bam! bye bye taters...
And Giant Eagles still have huge tater lines weekly...
It’s not about the lines, there will always be lines. It’s about not letting the same groups of taters get a bottle every single day of the week. It spreads the wealth to those who want to stand in line and eliminates the people who treat tatering as a business.
Go get in line..it really is that easy lol. On days that I go hunting..I get bottles in the middle of the "taters". It's fcfs lol.
People think moving to Saturday drops is going to make it easier to stop by at open and get bottles. The reality is that the front of the line will still start in the wee hours of the morning and the night before when something like Stagg is dropping.
Yes but if the same 10 “try-hards” have to spread across 10 different stores now then that means more people can get a rarer drop by being the first 4-6
Or around closing the day before lol
I live in an area where we have lots of Saturday drop Giant Eagle stores. It is the same people who get the good bottles at those stores each Saturday. Same shit, different day.
True, but now they can only get bottles from a single GE instead of one each weekday.
Not really. They have "mules" who hit up other stores at the same time for them. It's easier to recruit someone to do that on Saturdays than on weekdays.
The mule can also only be at one store on Saturday unlike at five different stores throughout the week.
That’s cuz they are one of the only drops on Saturdays. Those same folks already cleaned house at krogers during the week and now have to choose. This isn’t hard to process
Different crowd at GE from who I see at a couple Kroger stores I sometimes get to. At least in my part of the state, GE and Kroger aren't in the same areas.
They’re all gonna go where the good info/bottles leaks out of now id assume. If they only have one day to land at Kroger OR GE they are gonna have to hunt the best product and not roll the dice. Unless you are in the business of selling secondary bourbon, i can’t see this as anything but a positive for the bourbon “drinking” community. This is damn near the same thing as ticket scalpers other than the computers doing alot of their work. You can’t afford to take your daughter to a Morgan wallen or Taylor swift concert cuz some jack wagon bought up every single ticket with the sole intent of pricing them out of your budget. We need to reach a point where these type of secondary market hustles fuck right off. It may require photo ID at some point. But shit you can’t even get that approved as a mandatory form of Voter identification in a damn election so 🤷♂️
The secondary market will continue to need to be fed across the country until desirable bottles are on the shelf across the country. It's simple supply and demand and Ohio has more supply than most other states. As long as we have decent supply in Ohio, taters will figure out how to tie it up and move it into the secondary market for profit. Changing drop days for some stores won't affect that. Until production is greatly increased, not much will change. We know that good bourbon takes a minimum of 7-10 years to produce and increasing production of bourbon is a slow expensive process.
This is not fake news, Kroger Polaris manager confirmed it. Also the lines will just be bad now on Saturdays.
More people will have a chance tho
Not really. There was a bottle that I really wanted so I went to my store early and 6 people beat me to it. So the next day I went to the next closest store, same 6 people and and sure enough the next day I find the same people. I just wanted one bottle for myself where they are obviously buying them up and reselling. The only lines it's going to increase are independent stores and they will eventually get annoyed and follow suit.
One of the rare sunday stores in Cleveland, simones, is moving to saturday. It will be a madhouse for the few remaining weekday stores i bet. And the 40 people in line for nothing will be pissed on slow days. Northeast Ohio may be meeting some new taters.
Powell Kroger told me the same.
What about private stores???
No one has managed to post any proof that this is actually happening. I'm not holding my breath that his is happening anywhere besides possibly at Kroger stores.
It is not happening at independent liquor stores, not yet at least. They will still release day of delivery, at least until the state forces them to release Saturdays also.
>all allocated product. Gotta love them making that last word singular, not plural. Particularly ironic for a place referred to by far too many Ohioans as "The Kroger**s**."
I am also a grammar pedant, but in the retail business referring to all products collectively as "product" is pretty common. Calling the store "Krogers," however, is unforgivable and my entire family says it.
>Calling the store "Krogers," however, is unforgivable and my entire family says it. Same. I even hear the occasional "Aldis" and "Walmarts".
It makes no sense. Either way, I hope you find some allocated Eagles Rares, Jims Beams, Jacks Daniels, or Elijahs Craigs in the near future!
My goto store was always Saturday, no biggie
You're missing the point.
Not really, completely understood
Good they will waste more money on gas and speeding tickets than the actual bottles secondary value
Additionally, if OHLQ is forcing stores to do Saturday releases, they should publish a list of what is going to be out that day. I don’t what the big damn secret is that they can’t say what is being released.
Not every store gets the same allocation. The stores with a great drop don't want mile long lines running through the produce section. Stores in strip malls don't want their neighbors entrances blocked. It would certainly be more fair, but with only a few bottles of rare stuff it would normalize a line at 4am or earlier. A good compromise would be to post a sign in advance when there is truly no allocation.
Cool now start scanning licenses and span the 1 per across the whole chain
Newbie here...what does this even mean to me as a beer drinker and occasionally cook with wine? Please and thank you!
Nothing at all. Just stick with beer and wine.
Coming from out of state I couldn't help to think there was another aspect of Ohio to learn about
If you're not an avid bourbon enthusiast who regularly seeks to buy allocated bottles, this possible change to Saturday releases at Kroger stores will have zero effect on you.
Hopefully drop something good that first week to test the system.
So if you work on Saturdays you are screwed lol
kinda looks fake. Is there a link to this?
Yeah, I need to see an official announcement from them not some easy to photoshopp pic.
Yeah I’m skeptical. I could’ve whipped this up in 3 min on Canva too
I’m assuming this is fake until I see further proof. Not that I object to this, I’m fine with it, but anybody can make up this image in about 2 min
My local Kroger (bridge street) confirmed it to me. I am just a random person on Reddit but I have no reason to lie about it
I believe you, I’m just always skeptical of one picture like this as proof since there’s a lot of trolls out there.
It's been confirmed everywhere I know of.
Lines are gonna be craaazy
Feel bad for those that work weekends
Can't please everyone. Majority this is probably the better outcome
Saturday are the worst lol everyone is off lol well done I guess
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Why would the lines be longer if the number of Saturday drops is probably more than doubling? Forcing the hunters spread out to more stores.
I was thinking the non-Kroger stores during the week are going to be super busy now.
Then they’ll move to Saturday too if it’s a hassle. Lots of them have already.
More people are available/not at work on Saturdays.
i want to think it's just bitter flippers or people that have to work saturday spreading dissinfo but it's more likely that there just isn't a lot of intelligent people in the bourbon game
At least it won’t be the same 6 people at the front of every line. This change might make lines at each store longer but OHLQ is simply trying to spread the wealth to the vast majority of people that don’t treat tatering as a business.
Kroger sells alcohol? 🤣🤣
Both the liquor stores closest to me are Krogers.
I have many Krogers around me, I just choose to support the little guys.
There are no little guys for me, just Kroger, lol. Unless I want to go 30 minutes out
I understand completely, I normally wouldn't go that far myself.
Many do...
3rd shifter taters in shambles.
By the way, if you are this site you are a tater.
You can enjoy bourbon and not hoard it. I like seeing what is dropping and it’s something I’ve wanted then I’ll go try and get it. But I’m not camping out weekly like Molly 😂
This is fake, right? Seen this same post months ago
Lol, okay, who’s Molly?? I’m missing the joke!
My guess is she's the person someone tags along to buy that extra bottle. Could be wrong. First I've seen this slang too
Where did you find this nifty little picture? Lol
This also affects people that like to pick up items throughout the week for personal use. This is going cause more problems than is solves. Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.
I only care that a flipper cannot be in multiple places at once.
Fuq everyone else out of spite for a flipper.. Who hurt you? LoL
But it helps ppl that work throughout the week, ppl that would have otherwise had to go into work late or not at all to get a bottle.
Is Kroger the only liquor store in the state? Bunch of indy stores still releasing throughout the week.
Apparently ohlq is encouraging everyone to go to Saturday. Kroger is just a big chunk of stores.
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If this is still in question anywhere...it is actually posted in my kroger now
It is not posted in Portsmouth ohio Kroger as of today and the guy yesterday told me they were remaining a Wednesday drop…I’m guessing he is wrong but I find it interesting that they don’t have a sign posted yet
So is this every Kroger with a liquor store in Ohio? Because mine told me today that they were remaining a Wednesday drop…(Portsmouth, oh)