What are the Biggest Challenges Owning A Small Liquor Store? 

Front of the store looks so much better. Clean, less cluttered & love the planters 🌻

I used to work as the receiver in a supermarket. I retired at the beginning of 2020--so I retired two and a half months before Covid hit. We had some odd supply-chain issues even before that. I noticed that the section on our shelves tagged for Cherry Crush was always filled with Orange Crush. No other store in my town had had Cherry Crush in stock for several years, either. One time I asked the Pepsi driver why we never got Cherry Crush any more. His response was, "I dunno! The warehouse is full of it!" Go figure.

Love the updates, especially the liquor store. Store looks so much better inside and out, fantastic job of turning a business around for bigger profit. As always, Thanks for taking the time from your job to share your knowledge and expertise with us!

The store looks great! Especially the front.The two trees are lovely. Your doing a great job.

Great insights as always Mark! I'm still tempted to gift you a free liquor/c-store specific POS system so you and your manager can see how much easier life is using a POS system designed for liquor stores than a generic retail POS system like Clover.

Great job Mark. Store looks good inside and out. As I’ve stated before I have over 30 years in retail grocery experience. One of the most important things I’ve learned is to be consistent. Your customers notice that. That’s how you build customer loyalty. Consistently have all of your core items like milk, bread, etc. even if it means a few perishable items go out of date occasionally. You should be able to get credit from the vendor for out of date items. The only way to reduce out of date items is by faithfully rotating every time a restock is done. EVERY SINGLE TIME! I’m aware it takes an extra few minutes but it is worth it. If you are consistently out of the basic items customers will take note and eventually lose faith and move on to another establishment. You have a gold mine in that little town. Keep up the good work. I always look forward to your videos on the liquor and convenience store.

Killing demand does help reduce inflation by sending the share for small businesses to large retailers who get even better discounts. It destroys small businesses but makes Walmart a juggernaut.

Have you looked into those drive-up Ice Vending Machines? You'd have to supply it water, but they make them that freeze and bag their own ice and dispense it when the customer pays for it via card swiper or wait for it, coin-op. Be good in the empty lot. You might be able to lease one versus buy. Just a thought.

An idea for getting the bigger discounts for a smaller liquor store. You've probably thought about this, but here goes anyway. Start four or five more small ones, from scratch -- using the existing one as a template, and have a warehouse somewhere for receiving the larger shipments, which would then be distributed out to the stores by your personnel. Promote your manager to district manager to handle all of this.

It's hard to over-emphasize how important the soft skills are in a customer facing positions.

The liquor store videos are always my favorite. This was the first one I remember in a while where you didn't talk about alternative ideas for the place. I know you mentioned your manager wanted to add gas pumps but that's not an idea you like. Wasn't there an idea for a coin laundry? A coffee stand? I forget the other some of the other ideas for monetize some of the unused space.

Love the video, thank you for uploading and being so transparent!

Aha ! You took a bit of my advice and did the old style sign on the side !! I like the white with the black !!! Nice !!!! ❤

I always laugh at people's business suggestions sometimes...add a gas station Red Lobster ect😮‍💨

Some things don't make money, but they'll cost you business if you don't have them.

Shooters are just plain fun! Dump a variety in a bucket, like 20 or 30 of them, host a party w/drinking games, where ya have to reach in and pull out a random one, even if you pick a gross one you have to drink it. LoL

And you kept the trees, yay!

Wray and Nephews overproof rum is a winner!

I saw you have an awesome new Cold IPA in that Craft Beer cooler! 😄

I would have someone screw a board up on the inside of the old door in the liquor storage area. You can source used ice machines that work just fine i bet.

If you don't like gas pumps, why not install some electric chargers?

how do you find distributors for your business? I'm looking to start up a business myself but have no idea where to get started with inventory

man thats wild he had a replacement part for that specific wheel.

Great information

Good news as a result of your attention to detail 👏 What do you think of turning that side lot into a nice seating area and begin using that back kitchen to serve take-out? Which diners would eat in that prettied-up side-lot. 🖖🙏

Store looks wonderful!👍🏻

Is having a huge backroom inventory normal in liquor stores? I was quite surprised at the amount of merchandise you have in your back room.

Is the Bud Light stuff real?

Found the video interesting. Wondering how u handle payroll ? Do u use outside company?

Wow new manager is keeping it looking good. Also which tequila is good?

Put a coin three bay car wash behind that store.

Truely interesting

Good video

Jello shots in the fridge

Why don't you put a car wash where the manager would put a gas station?

this is a great episode

Leinenkugal!!😊

Wassup

Have you reached out to competitors (of similar size) to see if you can order together to get bulk discounts?

Are you selling Bud Light?

Beer expires? I didn’t know that.

Sell propane canisters

that garbage can next to the tobacco is ripe for inside theft

Not turning the city into a bunch of drunks?

theft

If you need help , message me. I think I could help