Four Firkins

leezy · Jul 17, 2014

KarlHungus said: ↑

Now that the initial fuss has died down, and I know I'm not making a knee jerk reaction to the situation here's my stance on the Four Firkin:

I used to shop at Four Firkins quite regularly when I lived in the West Calhoun neighborhood mostly out of convenience. I never understood the common complaints from people on here about their service. I always was treated extremely well by all of their staff. Also, I highly appreciate/respect Alvey's activism in regards to changing outdated liquor laws. It was one of the reasons why I shopped their. I also greatly respect Alvey's devotion to pay his employees a living wage. That's rare in the business world.

With that said, I haven't been there for well over a year. Initially it was due to it being a pain to get to from where I currently live downtown, but this whole money grab thing as I see it really rubs me the wrong way. It did initially, and it still does today. It tarnishes the Four Firkins' reputation (at least the reputation they had built in my mind) of being a local business that actually held its values above its desire to make an insane amount of profit. Asking costumers for money while giving them next to nothing I return makes the Four Firkins come across as being no different than any other average American business--greedily wanting something for nothing. I'm not going to go as far as boycotting Four Firkins forever. Maybe someday they will be able to rebuild their reputation, and regain my trust. However, as of now I have no desire to give them my business.

All in all, I still wish them the best as I do feel they are positive component of the Minnesota craft beer scene. I just wish they'd gone about funding their new store in what I consider more ethical ways--getting a low and paying it back, or taking on an investor and slowly buying back their shares of the company.
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Well said!, thanks for summarizing the 8 pages of disjointed posts on economics this or capitalism that

Four Firkins

leezy Initiate (0) Sep 13, 2009 Minnesota

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