[Chat] [Discussion] Eddies Liquor

[Stephen J Gewirtz]

Paul,

I first noticed the problem at least a month ago.  I went in to get some 
cheap sherry for cooking and could not find any.  A week or two later, I 
found some there.  Also, that earlier day, there was less than the usual 
selection of beers.  When I asked about it, I was told that their 
supplier was late with delivery.

Since then, I have noticed what you have noticed.  If I want Wild Goose 
or Guiness (the beers I usually buy), I can find them there.  And the 
New York (Taylor) and California sherries are there although in more 
limited quantity than they used to carry.  So even for the limited items 
that I generally get there, I have seen a change.

If they are not going out of business, they must have limited capital 
with which to maintain their stock, or their credit needed to buy such 
stock must be limited.  My first thought a few weeks ago was that they 
must be going out of business, but they still seem to be open.

An article in today's NY Times 
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/29/business/29lend.html?th&emc=th says 
that credit is tightening quite a bit.  Whether that is the problem or 
whether they simply intend to stay in business until after Christmas is 
pure speculation, but I am also curious whether we will lose a business 
which has been very convenient for getting beer and cheap wine.  On the 
other hand, we see more specialty wine stores (I often pick up a bottle 
of nice roughly $15 wine at Bin 604 when I get groceries at Whole Foods 
in the Inner Harbor), and the plan for The Olmsted was to have a wine 
tasting bar there.  So maybe the proprietors of Eddies Liquors think 
that this is a good time to get out of the business once the Christmas 
shopping season is over.

All in all though, your guess is as good as mine.

Steve.

OldHouseHistory at aol.com wrote:
> Not long ago, I went into Eddies Liquor, and I was struck that the 
> normally low stock of wine was almost depleted entirely.  My partner 
> and I complain about their normal stock being rather pathetic...maybe 
> 4-5 bottles of about 30 varieties, but this visit I was struck when I 
> saw a total of about 35 wine bottles in the entire place. 
>  
> All the floor bins were empty, and the remaining bottles were arranged 
> along the shelves with one bottle about every twelve inches.  It seems 
> they were not awaiting delivery of any wine soon, but spreading out 
> stock to make it look more full.
>  
> Anybody heard an explanation?  If I didn't know better, I would say 
> the store is going out of business.       
>  
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