ABC Fine Wine & Spirits

The new manager ‘Jeff’ is a lazy tool. On several occasions he has dismissed me and my questions about wine. Apparentally, he is too busy doing nothing to actually help customers. When he is on duty, none of the wine is stocked. When he is asked about it, he says,” Come back tomorrow”.How rude! WOW. Previous mgrs have gone in the back to check if they had the wine. If it was just delivered, they would open the case to get the wine. I have also noticed him not addressing long lines at the register. What good is a mgr who does nothing? ??? If he really DOES have knowledge of wine, who will EVER know? He NEVER really helps anyone. not customers, nor empoyees, too above that!!! Stocking or getting wine is below him as well. Never helps out at the registers when busy. Worst mgr ever! Never want to go back. Serious booo!!!

I lived in West Bradenton for a long while (moved away from the area in general about 2 years ago) and often visited this ABC location. I hate that I never caught his name, but an older gentleman (probably in his 50’s-60’s) and seeming longtime employee always had decent to GOOD, new wine recommendations. This was about the time I was experimenting with any and all wines and his expertise was much appreciated. He seemed really happy to work there too. It’s nice to see someone enjoy his job. I would probably be pretty happy if I got to work around so much booze too. :-)
This location also has (had?) a wine tasting table set up fairly often and they have a little clearance area too where you can pick up alcohol or wine they are trying to move out along with other related sundry items. I noted they had a little section of different kinds of not your usual commercial type salsas, crackers and small serving/​party type food.
It’s a large, freestanding location (as many ABC’s in the area are) with much inventory and they offer a customer loyalty card progam you can sign up for too.