More On SC Liquor Bill “Bad Actor”
COMPANY CRITICIZED FOR ALLEGED “BULLYING” AND “DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES” ||You must Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
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So what are they trying to do in SC?
Nikkize SC as a state in the United States of America. Join the movement !
This just in . . . “What they do is, being as big as they are and having as much money as they have, they test the legal bounds of how to do business”
Of course this poo-poo quote comes straight from a competitor.
Not to mention, testing the legal bounds is done every single day by almost everyone. That’s the point of the “bounds.” You stay within the “bounds” in order to avoid activity that would be deemed, well, illegal.
For instance, paying exactly what you owe in income taxes is, by definition, the legal bound, for if you were to pay 1 penny less, you’d be outside the bounds of the law.
“According to our SCDOR sources, Total Wine’s business model is built around defying state liquor laws so as to maintain an unfair competitive advantage over smaller retailers. ”
Could you be more specific?
Theirs is a tried and true method of pushing lazy bureaucrats and making them uncomfortable about excising their authority. Total wine has a reputation, but they are not the first.
We don’t need companies like this in SC. There are plenty of good firms that we should have.
Sounds like the Republican party. The GOP bullies groups (unions, poor, uninsursed, etc.) and uses deception (voter fraud, gerrymandering, family values, etc.) to get their way.
Yeah…When I was in the Union, a Town Car-load of those “BULLIED” Union members showed up in front of my house wielding clubs because I had only voted once by noon….on election day…
Said they’d lose their no-show, fatcat jobs at the Union House if I did not vote Democrat…
Poor guys…Obama got even though..He took GMC and gave it to them, after they ran it into bankruptcy…and made us pay for it…LMAO…
And there were only 20 of those uninsured – who refuse to go to the doctor I pay for, for them – at the ER w/ a head cold, when my niece had an Ebola scare (thanks Obama)…and had a REAL emergency…
As for the poor, Obama sure has made them a majority. 20 million more people are on food stamps since he took over the country…and 92 million cannot find a job…
Thank goodness the GOP is not in charge..eh???…
Too much Fox News for you. Item 1-Bullshit; Item 2- more bullshit; Item 3– If you had insurance you should have used an Urgent Care Center. Not sure what Obama had to do with Ebola other than try to calm the hysteria created by your type. Item 4– I guess everyone forgets the mess Obama inherited from W, but if you are in the grocery business food stamps are a good thing. There should be jobs– the “job creators” have more money than they have ever had. The “trickle down” economy isn’t working too well is it?
LMAO..I love the Slap the H#!! out of you w/ reality…then watch you S#!t all over yourselves…Hahahaha…
Total Wine is owned (in part) by a Furman alum who just paid a large junk of money to have the renovated student center named after him (Trone Center). I don’t know his political clout in SC as a whole, but he has in one corner of SC. FU one time…
The problem is the gummint meddling in the likka bidness, and beer and wine too. The entrenched have great gigs going and don’t want anyone else moving in their territory.
The gummint makes a nice bundle off the taxes so they have to meddle, and the entrenched buy off their politicians to fly cover. When someone new comes in and disturbs the balance then you get all the agita over it.
No different for the car bidness, keeping out any competition for their cushy incomes.
Looks like someone sent Folks a check, and it wasn’t Total Wine.
I think the crux of the problem is this………..SC limits the number of liquor license any one business can own. Total Wine, Walmart, Costco and others would like to enter other markets in SC such as Myrtle Beach, Charleston, Hilton Head etc. They simply can’t because SC will not allow them to license new locations.
Will, you seem here lately to talk out of both sides of your mouth. One day your “free market” the next day your not. Perhaps the mom and pops are the one “paying to play” to keep the competition out.
Justice and “free market” are in separate cyclic lexical systems.
DOR has always been incredibly political – run by connected lawyers who are part of the good old boy system.
Trying to change the laws around amount of stores you can have and also they currently offer a private label which is also illegal.
He could, but he has to wait until whomever is paying him and feeding him these half-truths tells him what to say.