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[Anonymous No.4590364]

is working at bevmo /ck/ approved?

[Anonymous No.4590375]

>a store that sells wine, beer, and liquor
>all in one store

What is this sorcery?

[Anonymous No.4590388]

>>4590375
America?

Shit, all the stores in MN do.

[Anonymous No.4590402]

>>4590375
What?
There are stores that don't sell all three of those?

[Anonymous No.4590406]

>>4590375

Is this not common where you live?

[Anonymous No.4590410]

>>4590402
A lot of convenience stores don't sell hard liquor. because it requires an additional license. They'll sell beer and wine though.

[Anonymous No.4590415]

>>4590410
Must be a regional thing

Up here, pretty much every liquor store, grocery store, drug store, and gas station has liquor, beer, and wine

[Anonymous No.4590416]

>>4590375
krogers fucking does that

[Anonymous No.4590419]

>>4590415

In NY there's no beer in liquor/wine stores, and no wine/liquor in grocery stores

It's annoying

[Anonymous No.4590420]

c-can someone answer my question?

[Anonymous No.4590422]

>>4590420
Is bevmo a typical liquor store?

[Anonymous No.4590423]

>>4590419
Why do liberals make such ridiculous laws?

[Anonymous No.4590427]

>>4590422
half beer/liquor/sodas & half wines

>pic related

[Anonymous No.4590430]

it's a cool store with a lot of variety and pretty good prices but i don't know what the working conditions are like. probably shitty like everywhere else.

[Anonymous No.4590435]

>>4590423
you've obviously never been to Utah

[Anonymous No.4590440]

>>4590435
Northeast liberals and southern/utahian conservatives are the worst

[Anonymous No.4590447]

>>4590406

Where I live you get beer at the grocery store but it is illegal for the grocery stores to sell wine or liquor. It is also illegal for the liquor stores to sell beer.

It's supposed to protect small wine shops, or something.

[Anonymous No.4590452]

glad I live in the upper midwest

[Anonymous No.4590463]

>>4590447
we just got rid of a dumb law like that
at the cost of about 6 dollars in tax being added on to the price of liquor
fuckers

[Anonymous No.4590466]

Texasfag here. The laws regarding importation of alcohol suck. I've found only a few sites that still ship here. We do have Spec's everywhere which is good, but I'm not sure how it compares to Bevmo. At least our grocery stores (Whole Foods, Central Market, Trader Joe's, HEB etc.) have decent beers and frequent good finds.

Anyone else try to order beer online?

[Anonymous No.4590512]

>>4590466
Fellow Texasfag, our liquor laws are pants on head retarded. Hell, half of my county was dry up to 2011. I wish grocery stores could sell liquor, but I am okay with keeping that out of convenience stores. As a burgeoning alcoholic, I thought Louisiana would be a paradise, but with liquor available at every corner store, the selection sucked ass.

[Anonymous No.4590564]

One of these just opened up down the road from me. I've been meaning to check it out, but it's on the inconvenient side of the street. I'm that lazy.

I hope they refrigerate their goddamn beer, unlike the last big booze superemporium that opened down the road. Damn it.

[spiderman !!uyU3f7IBfvy No.4590611]

Florida has Total Wine and More which is the same as BevMo from what I can tell. It's the size of a good sized grocery store full of liquor, wine, beer and accessories.

The same store up in VA can't sell liquor, so they are smaller. VA requires all the liquor to be sold in state run ABC Liquor stores. It's pretty annoying but if you plan ahead, it's really not that bad. The area I was in in Missouri didn't have either but did have some specialty beer stores and also sold liquor at gas stations.

[Anonymous No.4590964]

I currently work at bevmo as an associate, its been a pretty good place to work if you're a student/looking for part-time work. Because like most retail places nowadays, its hardly likely they'll give you full time work and they just give you slightly better than minimum wage. If you're wondering the employee discount is only 10%, could be a lot better there imo. My store is pretty chill, though we are a smaller bevmo compared to others.

But has been a very easy going and kinda fun place to work if you know your booze. They also do offer exclusive tastings for employees (and you get paid to go!) so you can know more about the merchandise. Though new associates can only take the wine course at the moment, but that helped me a lot at learning different types of wines.

[Anonymous No.4590976]

>>4590964
thank you for the response!
just got the offer, so was not sure what to expect. much appreciated

[Anonymous No.4590981]

I love BevMo.
It's my home away from home..sniff.. (jk)
But seriously, they can get hard to find stuff, at least mine can. There's one two blocks from my house. That's dangerous, man. My liver is constantly on edge, lol.

[Anonymous No.4590983]

>>4590981
what do you normally get from there?

[Anonymous No.4590998]

>>4590976

No prob, if you got any questions I'd be happy to answer.

Also, expect to be on the register a lot at the beginning. That's the way it was like at my store anyway.

[Anonymous No.4591000]

>>4590983
Oh, all kinds of stuff. Yesterday, I bought a variety 12 pack of Angry Orchard cider (it has Crisp, Apple Ginger, Traditional, and Elderflower) and some New Amsterdam gin. Oh, and two airplane bottles of Fireball. Two days before that, I bought Tito vodka, and 4 airplane bottles of Agua (the coca liqueur). Before that...it was more vodka and a few different beers (mainly Sam Smiths - oatmeal stout and nut brown are my favorites). Unusual things I've bought in the past few months have been St. Germain (the St. Germain cocktail is one of my favorites for all day drinking, it's St. Germain mixed with champagne and club soda)
and Cachaca, which isn't really so unusual, but I love Caipirinhas in the summer. And it's about time for me to start swilling Pastis like a fiend, too. Yay summer.

[Anonymous No.4591052]

>>4591000
my god
& here i thought i was fancy with hot toddys and gin & tonics...

[Anonymous No.4591062]

>>4590998
whats a normal routine for you? when i came in for the interview the store was practically dead and the employees were just hanging around chatting

just curious how time passes

[Anonymous No.4591069]

>>4591000
I just tried the Elderflower Angry Orchard for the first time, it's good stuff. Wish it wasn't limited.

[Anonymous No.4591113]

>>4591062
I'm guessing you came in during the day, it is very slow then. Business doesn't really pick up till like 4pm in my store.

What you'll be doing depends on where you're working, either the register or on the floor. If you're on the register during the day, expect a lot of old people and alcoholics. And if you're on the floor during the day, expect to stock shelves and help people with their questions.

In the evening the there will be a lot more people so work goes by fast on the register. And be sure to card everyone if you think they're under 30 or so, Bevmo's policy is 50 or under but I see that as bothersome. Watch out for the secret shoppers, they're typically in their early 20s and if you fuck up and don't card them you will get fired. They're easy to spot though, they usually just try to buy one bottle of beer, a mini of booze, or whatever is cheap and has booze in it. If you're on the floor you'll spend most of your time just facing the store, maybe restocking, help people with the liquor lock ups and whatever questions they have.

Fridays, weekends and holidays can be very busy and annoying. You'll encounter a lot of people who don't know shit about alcohol. Like "what goes in a gin and tonic?" kind of lot.

[Anonymous No.4591152]

>>4590364
Pretty much re-iterating what this anon said >>4590964
I worked there for about two years and it was one of the easiest jobs I've ever had. I met some very cool people as far as co-workers go (actually met my gf of 3 years there and made a new best friend). You always hear horror stories about working retail, but we hardly ever had difficult customers. Which makes sense because for a lot of them it's like being a kid in a candy store.
At my store we had a decent amount of perks in the form of freebies. For example, leftover booze from beer or wine tastings. We would also frequently take mini bottles of liquor that shipped as samplers along with bigger bottles. For example a 1.75 liter of regular Dewar's would come with a little 50ml bottle of the 12 year hanging around it's neck. If I was having a long day I would snatch one of those off and down it, noone cared. Me and my co-workers would do shots in the manager's booth or sample new beers. Also around Christmas time the stores start getting giftpacks. So instead of you finding a regular bottle of jack daniels on the shelf it now comes with a stupid hat thrown in for a dollar extra. Often times though it's more useful stuff like glassware or flasks. After the holidays are over the giftpacks have to go and the employees basically get all the free shit that came with them. Good way to expand your glassware collection. Corporate isn't cool with any of this, but what they don't know...

The downsides: You won't get full time as an associate. The pay is shit. Don't think of it as a career unless you want to work your way up to store manager, district manager, corporate etc. New employees get stuck on the registers, sometimes for weeks/months because they have limited knowledge of the product. You learn as you go and there are classes that you take. I always liked beer and spirits so I was pretty good at helping customers in those departments.

A lot of this depends on your particular store so YMMV

[Anonymous No.4592213]

>>4591113
>>4591152

sounds pretty good... i'm only looking for a part time job anyways since i'm a full time student. was hoping the employees would be pretty lenient about "taking sips" on the job

& yeah i came during the day before 4 so it was really dead. i'm used to registers from my previous job so hopefully it won't be too big a problem, i'll keep a lookout for those secret shoppers though