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OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE MINNESOTA MUNICIPAL BEVERAGE ASSOCIATION www.municipalbev.com Is Your Stash, Stashed Properly? Municipal Liquor Store PRST STD Box 32966 U.S. POSTAGE Minneapolis, MN 55432 PAID Permit No. 1770 CHANGE SERVICE Minneapolis, MN REQUESTED Volume 67, Number 6, 2008/2009 Griggs, Cooper & Company has been Delivering Customer Service for 126 years! 1882 2008 We are Proud of Our 98 Full-Service Sales and Management Team Members that Sell and Service the Largest Inventory of Wines and Spirits to Retailers of Minnesota. 1882 Eagle Wine Company Prior Wine Company 2008 Division Division 489 Fine Wine Company Division 126 Years of Continuous Service. 489 N. Prior Ave. • St. Paul, MN 55104 • 651-646-7821 • 800-672-0970 MUNICIPAL On The Cover LIQUOR STORE Recently, thieves stole a 600-pound safe from an MMBA Volume 67, Number 6, 2008/2009 member facility. It is estimated the process took about 3 minutes. Official publication of the Minnesota Municipal Beverage Association. Published six times annually: September/October, This example shows the sophistication of today's criminals, and November/December, January/February, the importance of building and perimeter security. It is also March/April, May/June, July/August. For important to look at cash handling procedures and other internal advertising and editorial inquiry contact controls. Paul Kaspszak, Editor, Box 32966, Fridley, MN 55432. Phone 763-572-0222 or During these economic times the revenue generated by 866-938-3925. Advertising rates available upon request. Change of address: List both old municipal liquor operations is more important than ever. As a and new address. result, managers need to ensure the stash is stashed properly. For more information on this subject, see pages 6 & 10. DIRECTORS GARY BUYSSE VIRGENE SHELLENBARGER (President) Liquor Hutch Rogers Liquor 245 Washington Ave. East P.O. Box 371 Hutchinson, MN 55350 Rogers, MN 55374-0371 320-587-2762 763-428-0163 MICHAEL FRIESEN DAN BAHR Hawley Liquor (Vice President) P.O. Box 69 Bemidji Discount Liquor Hawley, MN 56549 460 Paul Bunyan Drive NW 218-483-4747 Bemidji, MN 56601 218-751-8868/3911 TOM AGNES Brooklyn Center Liquor BRIAN HACHEY 5625A Xerxes Ave. North (Sec./Treas.) Brooklyn Center, MN 55430 Stacy Wine & Spirits 763-381-2349 30962 Fenway Avenue MOLLY MEYER Suite 700 Fairmont Liquor Stacy, MN 55079. P.O. Box 751 651-462-2727 314 N. Park Fairmont, MN 56031 NANCY DRUMSTA 507-238-2269 Delano Wines & Spirits P.O. Box 108 Delano, MN 55328 763-972-0578 LARA SMETANA Voyageur Bottle Shop 205 - 6th Street Pine City, MN 55063 320-629-2020 MMBA Has a New JOYCE ZACHMANN Toll Free Number Central Park Liquors 8101 Hwy. 65 N.E. Spring Lake Park, MN 55432 866-938-3925 763-780-8247 MMBA President’s Message Analyze labor costs. Staffing levels can mowing? Are you getting be reduced at non- critical times to the best price on your liquor liability reduce employee cost. Are you currently insurance? If you are a combination store carrying the appropriate mix of part and and you insure with the League of full time employees? Our staff members Minnesota Cities Insurance Trust you are Gary Buysse are our most important resource, but our probably paying more than necessary! President ultimate responsibility is to our citizens and communities. The current political and economic You are your city’s stimulus package! climate has created an atmosphere of Control inventory levels. I don’t care increased accountability in the private A.I.G., Bear Stearns, Citigroup; you’re how great you think you are, you can’t and the public sector. Our elected all familiar with the names. These control your inventory without some type officials, city administrations and companies and many others like them of inventory control system. You can’t residents expect more from us this year. have become symbols of corporate control it in your head! You need to It is our job to operate our businesses as excess, mismanagement and greed. order in a manner that is most cost cost effectively, efficiently and profitably Many of our financial institutions are effective and profitable for your store. as possible to assist our cities with the also teetering on the brink of disaster due Carrying inventory over two months in current budgetary crisis facing us all. to poor investment strategies and general quantity is generally the absolute mismanagement. maximum. Items that turn more slowly As I have said before, there is more to may be ordered individually and marked management than stocking the beer The Federal government deemed it accordingly including split case charges. cooler. Our member fraternity provides necessary to provide these companies The inventory you carry in your back all of us with limitless access to and banks with working capital, or room may have looked better in your information. All we need to do is ask the economic stimulus, to forestall what bank account. Effective inventory question of a fellow MMBA member or could possibly be the ultimate collapse management will greatly enhance the Director. As managers we need to be of our economy. This decision has economic profile of your operation. prepared to ask for assistance when we created a climate of increased interest don't know the answer. and a certain distrust of big government, Do an overall cost analysis. Is your as government influence is increased in janitorial expense reasonable? Does your I am available to assist you if I can....we areas previously dominated by private city do your maintenance, plowing and all are! business. State and local governments can expect fewer federal dollars and are faced with the responsibility of funding many projects and daily services more creatively than ever. This is where we come in. One call. Regardless of size, our municipal liquor If it has anything to do with beverages, ice stores are more important to our cities or refrigeration, call the Shamrock Group. than they ever have been. Our existence With our expert attention to detail, starting may represent the only accessible with us will set you up for business succcess. revenue source available to our city officials. It is our responsibility to manage them efficiently and profitably! I Over 100 beverages I Shamrock Beer Systems Operating hours need to be monitored to I Walk-in Freezers/Coolers maximize efficiency. Do we still need to I Shamrock Water Filtration open as early as we have in the past? I Bulk CO2, other gasses Can we close earlier in the evening on I Service, repair, installation certain days? Hourly sales reports are a I Ice machine rentals useful tool when determining efficient I ‘Purefect’ Ace Ice operating hour strategies. MUNICIPAL LIQUOR STORE 4 Is Your Stash, Stashed Properly? By Lakeville Liquor inform them to keep this informa- combinations. If counting money Manager Brenda Visnovec tion confidential. Do not share in an office, doors should be information on safe locations, locked, and drapes should be Recently, the National Retail deposit totals etc. drawn. Federation reported that due to the down turn in the economy, employee 3. Don’t place your store or safe keys 10. Ask your staff to be aware at all theft, which has long been the largest on the same key ring as your car times. Use incident reports as portion of retail loss, is now on the keys. Car keys go everywhere part of your daily routine. If your decline. Evidently, jobs are now worth with you and are often misplaced staff witnesses anyone or anything more than a $20.00 bill in a pocket or a or borrowed. peculiar they should record it on bottle of booze out the back door. an incident report. While an indi- 4. Secure your safes. As proven vidual may just be an odd duck, While this is good news, they are above, even 600 pound safes are they may also be casing the unfortunately reporting that retailers not a deterrent. Bolt your safes location. Have your staff right are now recording a dramatic increase into the floor, and whenever down descriptions or license plates in organized crime, including burglaries, possible, conceal them in a location of individuals who appear in areas major shoplifting schemes and fraud. not visible to the public, such as in that private citizens shouldn’t be Unfortunately, we as MMBA Members the floor or inside a cabinet. such as store rooms, coolers or are not immune to these occurrences. closed offices, or of people who 5. Have your staff all leave as a shop for long periods of time Just recently, one of our members was group at the end of the night. One without purchasing anything. You burglarized overnight. They lost their person leaving a building is more never know what this information safe and all the money within. The vulnerable to a robbery and/or could lead to. irony in all of this... the store had high bodily harm. tech surveillance equipment, door and During these economic times, when motion alarms and a giant safe that no 6. If you can afford them, drop safes cities are facing huge budget deficits, one thought could be moved. With all located at the registers is a good the revenue we generate is more of this equipment in place, the thieves idea. Having staff drop large bills important than ever before. As were still able to break into the store, or accumulation of other bills managers we need to ensure we do go through a window and remove the allows the money to be spread in our job to be best of our ability and 600 pound safe all in less than three multiple locations throughout the make sure that we stash the stash minutes time.