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A few years back I saw an interview with the Sam's/Walmart alcohol buyer and their in house sommelier. Sam's/Walmart is the world's single largest purchaser of alcohol in the world. They basically control the alcohol price market. They buy up entire vineyard stocks at a time and not just the cheap stuff. They have warehouses full of high end wines In the interview they explained how Pennsylvania once the largest purchaser of wines in the world and controlled the wine market due to their ABC stores but now Sam's/Walmart has taken over.
I can only assume this is also happening in the liquor market as well.
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