How to check ID at a liquor store, every timeA practical guide to checking ID at a liquor store: when to card, how to read a licence, what to do with doubtful IDs, and how the register can enforce it.Compliance Desk · The Back Label · blog
Notes from the back office of a bottle shop.
Practical, sourced guides on the parts of liquor retail that cost money when they go wrong: ID checks, case pricing, shrink, catalogues and deposits.
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How to check ID at a liquor store, every timeA practical guide to checking ID at a liquor store: when to card, how to read a licence, what to do with doubtful IDs, and how the register can enforce it.Compliance Desk · 
How to price a mixed case without giving away your marginHow liquor stores price mixed cases: choosing the discount, protecting margin, tiers for 6 and 12 bottles, exclusions, state rules, and automating it at the register.Retail Ops Desk · 
Liquor store shrink: where the bottles go, and how to get them backWhy liquor stores lose inventory (theft, breakage, receiving errors, pricing mistakes) and a practical routine of counts, adjustment reasons and reports to cut shrink.Retail Ops Desk · 
How to import a big liquor catalogue without a week of typingA practical guide to importing a liquor store catalogue: cleaning the file, one row per bottle size, UPCs, case units, categories, costs, opening stock and updating prices later.Retail Ops Desk · 
Bottle deposits and CRV at the register, explainedWhich US states have bottle deposit laws, which containers they cover, how to charge deposits and CRV at the register, and how to report them.Compliance Desk · Opening a second liquor store: the inventory and systems checklistA checklist for opening a second liquor store: licence, catalogue, pricing per store, stock transfers, purchasing, staff roles and reports across both locations.Retail Ops Desk · No articles in this category yet.
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