RB Purchasing History by Merchant

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Purchases in 2006 and prior 2 years (only those at 2% or over listed).

Previous Years

Here is a table showing where I've purchases over the previous 6 years, only merchants scoring 2% or more of purchases are included.

Notes to illustrate reasons for buying patterns and changes in merchants supported (see numbers in the table above):

1. Lloyds (local chain, now BWS). Personal service by one branch manager, with extra discounts allowed, the manager moved to the new David Farmers (Theo's) store.
2. David Farmer.  Carry-over business from relationship with the Manager, but he had less flexibility for good deals under Theo's rule.
3. Dan Murphy. Opening specials during the first year of operation saw some sizable purchases, plus price matches.  Drop off due to less specials and difficulty in doing price matches due to tardy stocking of new releases.
4. Auswine. Big jump in purchases as the business model changed at this site and more wines I'm interested in available at reasonable prices.
5. WinePool. Big drop off due to some bad experiences in late delivery, wrong vintages etc .
6. Vintage Cellars. Change in pricing policy caused a sudden drop in purchases.
7. Cellarmasters. There used to be some good wines at reasonable prices, prices rose and it just got too hard to pick the gems from the dross.

Historical Purchase Chart

Another view of the table above to show trends.