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    Published 14 hours ago on May 2, 2020By FITSNews

    Regular readers of this news outlet are aware of the extent to which Total Wine and More – the nation’s largest privately owned alcohol retailer – has been on a mission to eradicate small- and medium-sized alcohol providers in the Palmetto State.

    Our news outlet has covered this issue extensively … including the company’s brazen, legally dubious tactics in pursuit of its objective.

    We have also chronicled how its leader – über-liberal U.S. congressman David Trone of Maryland – loves to purchase access to Palmetto politicians (his words, not ours).

    “I sign my checks to buy access,” Trone told The Washington Post a few years ago.

    In another interview, he specifically talked about buying access to former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley.

    “Every single thing that Nikki Haley stands for, I disagree with, 100 percent disagree with,” Trone said. “It’s repulsive. It’s crazy.”

    But Trone gave money to Haley regardless in order to “have a seat at the table,” specifically when it came to convincing her to sign legislation approving beer and wine sales on Sunday.

    “Nikki Haley had to sign that law,” Trone told the Post. “And without access to Nikki Haley, explaining to her chief of staff directly why Sunday sales are good for the people of Charleston and Greenville, it doesn’t work.”

    This week, Total Wine was back in the news for checks … this time the ones doled out to company employees.

    While Trone (the politician) has been busy promoting himself as a champion of labor during the coronavirus pandemic, Trone (the businessman) quietly eliminated a $2.00 per hour pay raise that was awarded to Total Wine’s hourly employees in mid-March.

    According to Katie J.M. Baker of BuzzFeed News, the company cut the “hazard pay” benefit after only four weeks due to “trends in the business and external environment,” according to an internal company memo she obtained.

    “We are unable to predict the long-term impact COVID-19 will have on our business and the economy,” noted the memo, which was sent to managers but not front-line employees. “We are doing all we can to ensure that we stay open and continue to be a growing business.”

    Workers were (understandably) enraged – and their ire burned even brighter when the company tried to offer “qualifying employees” a $25.00 wine voucher as consolation.

    “Total Wine workers told BuzzFeed News that despite the memo’s reference to economic uncertainty, sales at their stores are at unprecedented highs for this time of year – thanks to employees’ work safely navigating in-store purchases, quickly launching a new curbside pickup service while being barred from collecting tips, and keeping track of so many delivery orders that they can barely keep shelves stocked,” Baker reported.

    Employees in Wisconsin – one of twenty-four states in which Total Wine operates – provided BuzzFeed News with documents showing that sales were currently at “100 percent to 150 percent over (projections) every day,” adding “we’re all overworked and being asked to do more than normal.”

    While Trone’s company – reportedly worth more than $3 billion – was busy stiffing its employees, its leader was on social media trying to tout himself as a hero of the working man.

    “I drove to Washington tonight and am waiting in my car to vote (while socially-distancing) to help small business owners and frontline workers impacted by this crisis,” Trone tweeted in late April.

    No one was buying it …

    “Hypocrite!” one person responded. “Are we just supposed to ignore that you’ve rescinded hazard pay from your own employees (at Total Wine)? Practice what you preach or shut up.”

    “You may have a ‘D’ after your name, but that was totally a Republican dick move,” another fired back, referring to the pay cut.

    Yet another described Trone as “a disgrace to the Democratic party,” while another pointed out how his company had been “putting small mom and pop-owned Liquor stores OUT of business all across the country.”

    This news outlet will continue to keep close tabs on Total Wine in the Palmetto State, particularly in light of its ongoing issues with the S.C. Department of Revenue (SCDOR). Stay tuned for more on that in future reports …

    https://www.fitsnews.com/2020/05/02/...tal-hypocrisy/

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    I just clicked on the site for a check in on this beautiful Sunday morning.. I was like "whores" that doesn't sound like zinfull Sunday reading, but let's see.. it was worse. I've talked about it before, but it's hard to explain how bad Total actually is.

    I'm going to try to put my phone down and not get into it.

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    I shop with Ralph when I’m in Camden and with Morganellis in Columbia. I don’t buy as much from Ralph as I should, but I don’t get to Camden like I used to.

    He still
    Let’s me come out shoot him errry once in a while.
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    He ain't wrong, he's just different, and his pride won't let him do things to make you think he's right

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    Let me tell you something.
    Highstrungs liquor store is the Pine Street Animal Hospital of red dot stores

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    I don’t drink, but if I did, I would buy from all my spirits from Ralph. He’s the krt of whiskey
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    Ralph is to red dot stores as ....Donald trump is to freedom

    Ralph is to red dot stores..... as rusty wallace was to the short track

    Ralph made the red dot store in the same way Michael Waltrip made dale jr a restrictor plate track winner

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    Maybe Highstrung should open a new location in the Upstate?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Two Barrels View Post
    Maybe Highstrung should open a new location in the Upstate?
    Well, see, that brings us around to the other whores who took money to keep chain stores OUT of South Carolina...

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    I can have six stores right now.. I like my two, and my own little world as I tell my friends that have larger chunks in the market across the state. Plus, I'm as busy and work far harder than I ever anticipated years ago.

    Thanks all.

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    You are too uppity for Traders of Walhalla anyway...

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    Yah, Ralph doesn’t speak Spanish so Greenwood is out
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    Quote Originally Posted by Highstrung View Post
    I can have six stores right now.. I like my two, and my own little world as I tell my friends that have larger chunks in the market across the state. Plus, I'm as busy and work far harder than I ever anticipated years ago.

    Thanks all.
    That’s how I see things. I make a nice living and have for the most part very little stress, why would I want to mess that up.

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    Interesting that some “small retailers “ skirt the very laws they advocate to screw their peers. I will not call anyone out, but I live in Florence so you should be able to figure it out. Som have the legal number of stores but sell out of a van to all 46 counties. There is so much money in spirits, especially on the restaurant side, that it would b impossible not to have corruption. Restaurants remind m of convenience stores in th video poker era. They have become completely reliant upon alcohol sales and when that goes away, they cannot be profitable. Just like the video poker machines turned corner stores into casinos, so much so they almost all stopped selling gas. MG
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    I promise you there's not great money in wholesaling to restaurants.. I do it, and I know who you're talking about.. I'll type more after this E9, these 60 year olds arent playing

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    I get along with who you're thinking about MG. There's no question he's the largest wholesaler in the state.. but myself, I cannot think of a reason why I'd want to deal with that. The profit margin is just not there for me. I have all my independents in this area, and I'm about service. Most know my profit margins, I'll tell them flat out.

    During these times, I'm cool with my decisions. I have had a couple accounts begin orders for this week.. they plan on opening outside dining.

    But, I'm happy with being mostly retail... It simplifies things, then a few caterers.

    Total Wine has made me more active in this industry, and into more politics than I care to be in.

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    You oughta get coked up, barge into a total wine, and fuck shit up

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    Haha

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sportin' Woodies View Post
    You oughta get coked up, barge into a total wine, and fuck shit up
    Damn right.

    Everybody wants to be gangster until it's time to do gangster shit.

    Go send 'em a message HS.

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    Would love to know the story behind that video

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    At least that looks like vodka.. if someone does that in my cordial section old me might come out.

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