As a retailer who has to deal with the distributor, I really wish everyone would tell them to fucking pound sand. The shit they do is basically illegal. You don't really get to choose if you get anything. They tell you what you get, and they base it off sales of their other brands. Not even dollar sales, quantity sales. So really they just want you to sell a ton of their cheap shit in order to get good stuff, and that's not even considering that they default to chains and independents get fucked. It's basically a game of how much Fireball, 99's, Skol, Fleischmans, etc etc can you sell in order to get something you actually want to sell. It ends up in shit like high end whiskey's going to markets that can't reliably sell them because that ghetto store with a bunch of broke fucks have no interest in it, while a store like mine in a nicer area, where I sell a ton more of their higher end brands but sell almost no Skol, gets nothing (like quite literally nothing, it's been over a year since I've gotten a single bottle of Blantons). I'm kind of in the process of slowly getting rid of their shit that doesn't really sell more than competitors, because fuck them.
