Small Beer Distributors Being Trampled by Big Box Stores

New York’s beer market may be large enough to accommodate all the local industry players, but the big money is going to big box stores like Costco and BJ’s at the expense of smaller independent distributors.

According to an article published in Crain’s New York Business last month, the trade group for independent beer distributors in New York hired an investigator to look into the mega-stores and see if they are circumventing the system, undercutting them and stealing their bodega business.

Small Beer Distributors Being Trampled by Big Box Stores