Wholesale Only Items
As a reminder, wholesale Agencies must ensure items identified as wholesale only (WSO) should not be placed on the retail shelves. These items should be maintained in the Agency’s back room so the permit holder can purchase in full case quantities. Permit holders are not to order these products by the bottle – they must purchase in full cases. Agencies can now easily identify WSO items by opening their Brand Master report on the Enterprise Portal and reviewing the detail codes found there.
Permit holders are signing a form acknowledging this requirement before the product is ordered. Ohio Liquor (OHLQ) is actively monitoring the product's activity, and permit holders that do not comply will not be permitted to purchase WSO items in the future. This step was taken to improve inventory control and adequately protect the interests of OHLQ. Agencies will benefit from this requirement by no longer having partial cases of WSO items—which cannot be sold to retail consumers—taking up valuable storage space in their backrooms waiting for a permit holder to order it.
OHLQ asks Agencies to help enforce this policy by refusing to fulfill wholesale orders of WSO items in less-than-full-case quantities. OHLQ is also monitoring Agency sales data to ensure that Agencies are compliant with this requirement going forward.
