Duty Free Liquor -"Cash & Carry"

Will be curious to see if in the next couple of weeks there is a
policy change in the on board duty free stores. I am wondering if sales
will/have dropped due to transportation issues with getting liquor home
now. You know sales are going to drop if people can't carry liquor off
a ship and onto planes. With that will the policy change with "cash &
carry" to increase revenue and sales on the ships? Duty Free Liquor
sales is a huge portion of revenue for any line. I would imagine the
cruise lines are already feeling the hit of slower sales....only 1 week
after new TSA rules went into effect. Any thoughts or opinions?

RICK DAVIS wrote:
Will be curious to see if in the next couple of weeks there is a
policy change in the on board duty free stores. I am wondering if sales
will/have dropped due to transportation issues with getting liquor home
now. You know sales are going to drop if people can't carry liquor off
a ship and onto planes. With that will the policy change with "cash &
carry" to increase revenue and sales on the ships? Duty Free Liquor
sales is a huge portion of revenue for any line. I would imagine the
cruise lines are already feeling the hit of slower sales....only 1 week
after new TSA rules went into effect. Any thoughts or opinions?



Hard to say. I had talked with some of the people working the store and
they worked for a vendor and not the cruise line. It was their
understanding that the cruise line didn't want that booze vendor
competing with the bars for alcohol revenues. The on board purchases
rules may stand and the store vendors will just suffer a little while we
get this all sorted out.

Of course, we may have it all wrong as it was a tasting party and they
were VERY liberal with the samples!

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Ok, so if the liquor is sold by a vendor who puts the regulations in
place that it can only be pre-ordered (delivered on the final night)?
And who gets the extra $10 "corkage fee" to purchase it and walk out
with it (so many people in the past have posted they do this)? Sounds
like a rule that is ok to break for the extra money? But not a hard
fast rule.