When online liquor sales resumed on April 1st, the state website, FineWineandGoodSpirits.com was only accepting 1800 orders a day. Since April 1st, the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board has been opening additional fulfillment centers to increase the amount of e-commerce they’re able to process on a daily basis.
Currently, all orders placed at FineWineandGoodSpirits.com are processed, packed, and shipped from one of 46 Fine Wine & Good Spirits stores and licensee service centers. Over the next few days, the PLCB is expecting to have 121 fulfillment centers up and running open by this weekend.
When online liquor sales resumed on April 1st, WILK News Radio received phone calls and texts from listeners saying the FineWineandGoodSpirits.com website wasn’t working. We later reported the PLCB was limiting the number of orders they were accepting per day, in an effort to keep up with demand in an efficient way.
When online sales resumed, the website was only accepting 1800 orders a day. Currently the site can handle 6500 online orders. With the new fulfilment centers up and running, the PLCB says they’ll be able to accept 10,000 (or more) daily online orders.
Pennsylvania's liquor agency says workers will be back on the job at more than 100 shuttered state-owned liquor stores to help process online orders. Gov. Tom Wolf's office gave the OK to reopen 106 of the state system's 600 stores for online fulfillment but not for public retail sales. The store closings have been a source of widespread complaints, especially since the state's online ordering system has been unable to meet overwhelming customer demand in a state where the liquor board controls the overwhelming majority of retail sales of hard alcohol.