{"id":45156,"date":"2020-09-03T19:32:38","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T19:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/uncategorized\/2020\/09\/03\/mil-money-has-the-commissary-beer-and-wine-test-gone-stale\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T08:19:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T08:19:44","slug":"mil-money-has-the-commissary-beer-and-wine-test-gone-stale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/pay-benefits\/2020\/09\/03\/mil-money-has-the-commissary-beer-and-wine-test-gone-stale\/","title":{"rendered":"Mil Money: Has the commissary beer and wine test gone stale?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">COVID-19 has pushed some commissary initiatives to the back of the shelf, including the test of whether to expand the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/pay-benefits\/2019\/09\/30\/whats-up-with-beer-and-wine-in-military-commissaries-and-curbside-pickup\/\" target=_blank>sales of beer and wine<\/a> in these grocery stores<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are no plans at the moment to expand the beer and wine pilot test that\u2019s been in place in 12 commissaries for two years. They\u2019ve put a limited assortment of the libations in the stores, using a limited amount of space so as not to displace other important items.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officials are conducting an analysis to determine whether it\u2019s a smart business decision to expand the sales, said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/pay-benefits\/2020\/09\/01\/outgoing-director-says-commissaries-are-proving-their-worth-during-covid\/\" target=_blank>Rob Bianchi<\/a>, the interim director of the Defense Commissary Agency who is leaving that position after 33 months. He\u2019s continuing in his position as CEO of the Navy Exchange Service Command, a position he held simulateously with the DeCA director one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFor the last six months, we\u2019ve been focusing on keeping our stores open, implementing sanitation, getting products, toilet paper, sanitizer and that kind of stuff,\u201d Bianchi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAt this point I believe we have more pressing needs we have to focus on, and this analysis will reveal itself in due course.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Customers have bought about $2.5 million worth of beer and wine during those two years, but commissary officials haven\u2019t had a lot of customer reaction, either positive or negative, said Bianchi. Those sales have stayed relatively flat: In August, 2019, at the end of the first year, those 12 commissaries had sold about $1.1 million worth of beer and wine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The idea of beer and wine in commissaries is clearly considered as a convenience for customers, as many commercial grocery stores stock a variety of selections of those libations. On military bases, there are other stores such as package stores where larger selections of libations are available to customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But there\u2019s a space issue, too. \u201cI didn\u2019t take diapers off the shelves so I could put beer in there,\u201d he said. \u201cIn many locations, I\u2019m already stretched for space, especially as food preferences evolve in all our patrons,\u201d which means adding choices such as gluten-free foods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCommissaries were created to provide food to our military members and families. My litmus test has been to do no harm to providing the maximum selection and assortment of food to our patrons,\u201d he said. That\u2019s especially important in the COVID environment, when so many people are staying at home, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Commissaries currently selling beer and wine:<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>California: <\/b>Twentynine Palms, Port Hueneme<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Missouri: <\/b>Fort Leonard Wood<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Nevada: <\/b>Nellis Air Force Base<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>New Jersey: <\/b>Lakehurst Naval Air Engineering Station (part of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>New Mexico:<\/b>White Sands Missile Range<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>South Carolina: <\/b>Shaw Air Force Base<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Tennessee: <\/b>Arnold Air Force Base<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Texas: <\/b>Fort Sam Houston (part of Joint Base San Antonio)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Virginia: <\/b>Fort Myer (part of Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall); Little Creek (part of Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story); and Quantico Marine Corps Base<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DoD officials are analyzing whether they should expand the sale of beer and wine to more commissaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":71024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":15,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[101,23,93,82,25,15],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3302],"class_list":["post-45156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-news-roundup","category-home","category-middle-column","category-mil-money","category-newsletters","category-pay-benefits"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"K34DM43ZSJC45KYE6YLQ5HRBXA","arc_canonical_url":"\/pay-benefits\/2020\/09\/03\/mil-money-has-the-commissary-beer-and-wine-test-gone-stale\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - 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