Employees buying up limited releases

As long as they are buying 1 allocation I have no problem with it.

 

The store employees should be made to abide by the same bottle limits they place on their customers, that said, if you own the place you can do whatever the heck you want, it's your business.

But if they keep buying up all the good stuff themselves and turning away customers they will find they are losing a lot of money in the long run.

 

Maybe you should put in an application for a part time job.

 

Imagine how frustrating it can be to work at the store when a limited release beer arrives.

 

I've been trying to get my brother, who lives in Denver, to do the same. He needs a job, I need beer.

 

I think he meant standing there staring at a whole case of whatever new crazy shelf whale that just came off the truck and not being able to buy it all.

 

or the hundreds (millions if you work at FFF) of phone calls you receive hourly.

 

At the store I work at, employees are not allowed to by any limited releases at all! It SUCKS!!!!

 

The only time my beer manager prevented me and other fellow employees from buying something was when we get 6 bottles of Cantillon shipped to the store. Those were strictly limited to customers. Everything else is fair game - though we still have to follow the same limit.

There are some nice rules at our store that make it fair game for both the customers and the employees:

1) Anything in the back is not in the system yet so even we employees can't buy it yet. As soon as something is in the system it is on the floor ready to be sold.

2) Being such a big store we typically get a lot more than your smaller mom and pop's stores. Can't wait to get me some Nugget Nectar this week

 

That's what I was getting at, mostly.

The stories I've read about limited release days at liquor stores on this site alone make me glad I don't have a face made for customer service.

 

of course employees get first grabs. come on. lets be real.
we're the ones that have to put up with the hundreds of phone calls and daily ridiculousness of dealing with the general public.
We deserve first grabs. But we do abide by the purchase limits as well...mostly. I mean maybe instead of limit 1 6pack, we'll get 2. but nothing crazy.

 

I typically will tell my employees to wait a day. When something special comes in, BCS, whatever and I eblast or facebook it, I give it a day. Ill let my customers come in and buy, then the employees can take theirs. And I hold myself to the same rule.

Now, I run a smaller store and we will get very small amounts of things. Ive seen stores getting their Nugget Nectar shipments today and having huge case stacks of it, so I wouldnt stop my employees from getting that, but if i only have a case, i will.

 

As long as the management makes sure to leave *some* for the customers, I'm fine with it.

Do you work retail? Have you ever worked retail? It sucks. Therefore, I am totally ok with any fringe benefits these people can get for dealing with a shitty, low paying, thankless job.