Local Binnys Twitter Accounts

A man needs his Sucaba fix every year and hates trading.

Yeah, calling was pretty cool most times. And stopping in and asking for suggestions always turned up some nice surprises. It was mostly the "busy times" when the phones would get jammed up. I wonder how much the tweets actually helped with that.

 

When I worked at Binny's, the Firestone Walker "whalez" were consistently the smallest allocations we would receive. In addition to that, every 6 hour shift I would work that week, I would get asked about the beer about 50 times a shift, and that's not including all the cats that would ask about what we had in back. My point is, Twitter account or not, trading gives you a better chance of scoring Sucaba than trying to get it at Binny's.

 

I agree. When I worked at binnys people acted like we got tons of these. Its a 6 pack and my store would get 2 or 3.

 

Yeah, the FW boxed stuff is stupid small allocations here and actually stays on shelves in California.

So, what I really need are friends who can buy/ship.

 

A lot of these whale chasers are not going to know what to do with the shelf beer. It amazes me how many people will pass up on something cause its not a whale.

 

Yep, I'll never understand it.

 

There's a few ex-Binny's guys on this thread...... objectively, does anyone feel that things would be better if ordering beer was done through the system, like everything else in the store? You know, more time to answer that phone call for NYFRB, or restock a shelf.

IMO, they don't do that because they'd need like five buyers doing nothing all day but ordering stuff from all 90 distributors, over the phone (or maybe if some of the distro's would get their own IT houses in order- remember, a lot of them don't even have web sites or real email addresses- to be able to order online). And well, that costs $$$$$. Am I right?

I was always jealous of the wine manager or liquor orderer being done with ordering online on a Monday afternoon, within a couple hours of beginning. Knowing I'd have several man hours more time spent than them during the week, dealing with distro reps, pricing issues, etc. There's gotta be a better way to do it.

 

Yeah but you do realize that it's trading that's taking these beers off the shelves in the first place yah? Artificially inflating their rarity?

 

That was certainly one benefit of the Binny's DG putting the rarer stuff behind the counter, but listing it on a dry-erase board. You could see what was in, but they had some means of controlling how many people bought. I'm sure there were other headaches associated with it, but no method's perfect when you've got an army of people canvasing the region looking for trade-bait.

It's a fine line between getting consumers into your store and just becoming another spot for people to grab whalez and move on.

 

Sure, but do you realize that I don't care if these beers make it to the shelf or not?

 

I doubt the notes work as well are you're inferring. If people are willing to put on disguises to walk into LP multiple times for BA Abduction, picking it up from the customer service desk from Adam himself, I doubt the passive signs are that successful. They're successful with people who aren't scumbags though.

 

All I know is less tweets = more money still in my pocket. I have no self control for certain beers, no ability to just stop by most days, and no interest in calling the store all the damn time. If they tweeted something I wanted to try I'd find a way to get there if I could to grab one. Without the tweet I'm basically shut out of anything limited and I can focus on drinking the 50+ beers in my cellar that I bought for "special occasions". You know how many "special occasions" I have a year? Probably 5. So I guess I'm set for 10 years or so and Twitter will be long gone by then anyway.

 

You're shitting us, right? Fake beards and such?

 

Sounds like a personal problem. AA?

 

@Vav: This happened for BA Abduction and BA Jones Dog right?

 

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is there such a thing as impulse buyers anonymous?

 

The one I remember was a guy changing clothes to try getting multiple BCBS allotments.

 

You realize you sound like the entitled prick right?

 

Oh Christ. Between truck chasers, "hide-the-bottle", paying ridiculous prices for beer on Craigslist, taking PTO to wait for hours at a brewery hundreds of miles from home for a whale..... and now this^

Maybe it's time to step back and take a look at this. It's just goddamned beer, and unless it's how you make your living, not a way of life. Right?

 

Ha, listen to me.... I'm wasting time talking about beer, LOL.