2024-05-16 Liquor Adjudication Board Minutes Hilo

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Gonzalez: So, if I may ask, is part of the retraining having your cashiers check an ID (identification) for every transaction? Brown: Yes. Gonzalez: Thank you for clarifying that. Fuke: Okay, any more questions from the Board? Davenport: And so that ID (identification) is affiliated with that sale? Brown: Yes. So, when we have liquor and we card the minor, we would scan the liquor, the liquor wouldn't go through yet until you scan the ID (identification), and then if they're of age, and then the sale would go through. If they're underage, it wouldn't take the sale at all. Hughes: James, I have an unrelated question about ABC stores, you're a high -traffic store wide open to the front, your front entry is always wide open, how often do you have theft problems of alcohol especially with the small bottles of liquor that you have? Brown: Theft, I would say pretty much every day. Hughes: Really? Brown: But now is not too bad because we redid my store, so all the liquor came more towards the front where the registers are manned, so they have a little harder time to steal now. So, in order for them to steal it, they would have to take the merchandise and go to the back of the store to hide it, but it is a problem. Hughes: Just curious. Fuke: So, I understand you've taken some corrective action. Brown: Correct. Fuke: Not only necessarily with Chris, the one who did the sale, but all of the other employees too? Brown: Yes, the whole staff. Fuke: Okay, Ms. Frenz, could you please provide the Department's recommendation for penalty in this case. Frenz: Yes, Chair. As some additional background information, they don't have any prior violations of this nature within the last five years for this Board's consideration. They do have one from 2013, so it's been a good number of years since they had one. You've already asked and clarified that they've taken corrective actions to try and avoid this situation in the future, and as our Director has indicated or asked them about scanning every ID (identification) every time, every transaction to avoid this. You know, the prior one worked, and now it's a different ID (identification), whatever it may be, so they have taken steps to avoid this in the future. We're asking for similar to other prior violating licensees of the same or similar allegation, a MINUTES - LIQUOR ADJUDICATION BOARD MEETING - THURSDAY, MAY 16, 2024 - HILO PAGE 17 OF 20