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BevMo! is an American retail chain focusing on the sale of alcoholic drinks. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of GoPuff, after GoPuff announced the acquisition of BevMo! on November 5, 2020.[5]

Previously BevMo! was a privately held corporation based in Concord, California. The company was founded in January 1994 as Beverages & More! in the San Francisco Bay Area, and re-branded as "BevMo!" in January 2001. By October 2009, the company had 100 stores in Arizona and California. As of September 2013, the number had expanded to 148 stores, including 9 in Washington state.[2]

The company's growth has not been without conflict. Expansion into Nevada and Florida in the late 1990s was followed by BevMo! closing those stores for financial reasons. Residents of towns such as Santa Barbara have resisted the establishment of a BevMo! store, citing possible effects ranging from small business decline to increased traffic patterns.

In 1995, BevMo! hired Wilfred Wong as cellar master. Wong, a native San Franciscan who is a veteran wine competition judge and wine writer, assesses wines for the retailer and gives them scores on a 100-point system. Wong keeps a blog on the company's website, and helped establish "Vineyard Partners", an in-house label composed of wines that are specially blended for the retailer.

BevMo! offers more than 3000 types of wines, 1500 types of spirits, and 1200 types of beers.[6][7] Most BevMo! stores cater to the community by having weekly beer and wine tasting for a nominal charge, in line with state law, to any consumer of legal age. Because the vast majority of products within the stores are alcoholic, one must be either over the age of 21[8] or with an adult over the age of 25 in order to enter the store. The Arizona stores accept unexpired identification from all US states, military IDs, passports and Mexico and Canada IDs.

The corporation was founded by Steve Boone and Steve McLaren in January 1994, calling itself Beverages & More!, based in Concord, California.[1] In the first year, the company opened six stores in the San Francisco Bay Area.[1]

Veteran executive Bannus Hudson joined as CEO in 1997, coming from Procter & Gamble. Expansion into the states of Nevada and Florida led to Hudson and Executive Vice President David Richards closing those stores in 1998.[9] Later, a company executive would say of this period, "we almost went broke. We tasted success and then expanded too quickly".[10] After cutbacks, Hudson and Richards determined that future expansion should be limited to Arizona and California, and that store size should be around 7,000 square feet (650 m2), a more manageable size than the chain's biggest 12,000-square-foot (1,100 m2) store.[9] By 2000, the company was making $130 million in sales annually and was the second-largest alcoholic beverage retailer in the US.[9]

In January 1999, Glenn Sobel Management registered the website www.beveragesandmore.com,[11] but Sobel was sued a year later by Beverages & More! for trademark infringement under ICANN jurisdiction.[12] Beverages & More, Inc. aimed to show that their registered trademark "Beverages & More!" was being violated. Their testimony noted that the ampersand and the exclamation point in their trademark were not allowed in domain names, and that the www.beveragesandmore.com domain was the closest analog available to them. In court, Glenn Sobel did not deny that he was in the business of selling domain names, and that his company had never been known as "beveragesandmore". Sobel was admittedly not in the business of selling beverages. In March 2000, the domain was ordered to be immediately transferred from Sobel to Beverages & More! with no fine or penalty—a decision reached by Richard D. Faulkner, an ICANN judge in Dallas, Texas.[12] The decision set a precedent that has since been quoted by complainants in cybersquatting cases to show that a domain name matching a trademark, one held by other than the trademark holder, "is evidence of bad faith registration and use".[13]

Earlier, consumers had been calling the chain "BevMo" as a nickname; as a result, the corporation registered the domain www.bevmo.com in August 2000.[14] In January 2001, the company officially launched the new website and formally adopted the nickname as their brand.[15]

In February 2007, BevMo! was acquired by TowerBrook Capital Partners, L.P., a New York- and London-based private equity firm.[16] With the acquisition, Bannus Hudson retired as CEO—to replace him, TowerBrook brought in Jim Simpson.[16] In February 2009, Alan Johnson was made CEO and he named Charlotte Russe's Dan Carter as CFO and Bare Escentuals' Maria Devries as head of operations.[3] Johnson, a native of Australia, was initially hired as a consultant by TowerBrook to assess BevMo! as an acquisition, and he "fell in love with the company"; by November he was reportedly driving a black BMW with a personalized license plate reading "I ♥ BEVMO" ("I [heart] BevMo").[8] In September 2009, Johnson reported annual sales of the 1,600-employee company to be "well over" $500 million—a record year.[3] Johnson noted that the introduction of the custom blended and packaged "Vineyard Partners", BevMo!'s private wine label, was a "significant" fraction of sales.[3] Johnson said that the company would be expanding into other states, and that the ideal store would be a 10,000-square-foot (930 m2) location sited on a corner with 100 feet (30 m) of street frontage, dedicated parking, and upscale demographics.[3] Johnson said that about 17 employees work at the average store.[10]

In October 2009, the company opened its 100th store, a 10,000-square-foot location in Torrance, California; the second BevMo! store in that city.[10] Torrance Mayor Frank Scotto was pleased; he said the chain's first store in Torrance was "a huge success"[10] and that the new one would create jobs and bring in more sales tax. At that time, 90 of the chain's stores were in California, with the remaining 10 in Arizona.[3] Johnson told reporters, "it took us 15 years to open the first 100, and we'll open the next 100 in the next five or six years."[10] He said, "we know we can take our exact concept, like it is now, and do exactly what we're doing in at least 16 more states."[10] By September 2013, expansion had reached into a third state, Washington,[2] with eight stores in the Seattle-Tacoma area, plus one in Vancouver and one in Bellingham, bringing the total number of stores to 148.[17]

Not all BevMo! expansion has been welcomed by city residents. In March 2010 in Santa Barbara, California, a group voiced opposition at a city board meeting, delaying approval of a BevMo! store. Concerns brought up at the meeting included complaints about the company's plans to cut down a tree in the parking lot, and about loading dock plans that would increase congestion in a narrow alley. The city's Architectural Board of Review member Paul Zink recommended against BevMo!'s plans to have pedestrians cross a parking lot to enter the store, saying that "there's a tie-in between what's inside and the street".[18] Zink continued, "here in Santa Barbara, we like to window shop."[18] Area retailers noted that a new liquor store within range of nine smaller liquor stores and several supermarkets that sell liquor would decrease sales for longstanding area businesses. Sarkis Abdulhi, a liquor store owner, asked, "how can a politician say they support small business when they bring in giant chains? How many employees are they going to have, 13? What good does that do anybody when they put nine or 10 small shops out of business?"[18] Area resident Trudy Fernandez said the opening of chain location "takes away from what people like me who have been in Santa Barbara 40 years came here for. This is a small town—we don't want to be L.A."[18] The store, BevMo's 105th, saw brisk business upon opening.[19][failed verification]

BevMo! employs Wilfred Wong, an expert taster and wine competition judge, who assigns bottles a wine rating based on his own version of Robert M. Parker, Jr.'s 50–100-point system. Wong, a veteran industry analyst and wine writer who has written regular columns for Vineyard & Winery Management magazine and Beverage Industry News, tastes some 8,000 bottles a year for BevMo!,[20][21] and may taste 40 wines a day. A San Francisco native and resident who grew up working in his family's upscale grocery store in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, Wong was hired to work for BevMo! in 1995, when they had six stores.[20] He told a New York Times reporter in 2006 that it can be tricky working as a wine critic inside a large retail chain that sells wine—there can be conflicts between appropriate scoring for a wine and business plans for that wine. He reported that he has, upon occasion, been encouraged by company management to give a high score to a wine, especially one that did not receive a high rating from other reviewers, or one that was purchased by BevMo! at a good price. Wong said, "we have fights all the time."[22] Wong made assurances that he does not treat a wine to a good score based on company founders' wishes.[22] Executive VP David Richards agrees: "If we were to impinge on Wilfred's credibility, it would be very bad for our brand."[23] Wong reports only to Richards, to keep him from being influenced by wine sellers or BevMo!'s own buyers. Richards said, "we have to give him independence within the organization."[23] Alder Yarrow, publisher of the wine blog Vinography.com, said of Wong, "he is not a shill ... He knows what he is talking about when it comes to wine."[23] Professor Emeritus Robert Smiley, Director of Wine Studies, Graduate School of Management, University of California, Davis, said about Wong's ratings: "I think this is a good innovation and he's helpful to the consumer. It brings more people to BevMo and it probably moves them up in price because typically, the higher-price wines get the better scores."[23] Smiley said that shoppers were too smart to be fooled: "If Wilfred and BevMo fix the ratings, people will catch on and go elsewhere."[23]

In scoring, Wong uses a 100-point system that he developed before working for the large retailer.[20] Wong reports that his system is aimed at the taste of the consumer rather than at that of the intellectual, unlike Parker's system which is more cerebral. One of the differences, said Wong, is that Parker may give a "fruitful" wine 88 points when Wong will give it 92, noting that it may be well-made for its varietal.[20] He reports that he has only given two wines a score of 100, one a 1990 Montrachet from Domaine Ramonet-Prudhon and the other a late 1990s vintage from Opus One.[20] His personal favorites to drink are French wines such as second- and third-growth Bordeaux reds, and California Pinot noir from the Russian River Valley. Other wines he likes include Chenin blanc from the Loire Valley, Pinot gris from Alsace, high-end Chardonnay from Australia and various biodynamic wines.[20] Wong publishes his thoughts about wine regularly on "Wilfred's Blog", hosted on the company website; a forum that he uses to name his current favorites and to recommend wine and food pairings.[21]

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At the age of eleven or twelve, he gave all of his money to a poor family in Ribe who lived in a house that was too dirty to live in. When she told her mother about the money, she went to help.

Jacob wanted to be a carpenter, despite his father's hopes that he would become a writer.

He became fond of the adopted daughter of the company he worked for when he was a teenager. Riis was forced to travel to Copenhagen to complete his apprenticeship because his father disapproved of the boy's clumsy attentions.

Riis came back to Ribe at the age of 19 in 1868. Riis decided to emigrate to the United States because he was discouraged by the scarcity of work in the region and Gjrtz's disapproval of his marriage proposal. There are 9

Riis was 21 years old when he came to the United States to find a job as a carpenter.

He boarded the steamer Iowa in third class on May 18 after traveling in a small boat from Glasgow. He had 40 dollars donated by friends (he himself had paid 50 dollars for the ticket); a gold locket with a lock of Elisabeth's hair, a gift from his mother; and letters of introduction to the Danish consul, Mr. Goodall (later president of the American Bank Note Company), a friend of the family since his rescue from a shipwreck at Ribe. 10

Riis spent half of the money his friends gave him on a revolver on June 5 to protect himself from animal or human attacks.

When Riis arrived in New York City, he was one of a large number of migrants and immigrants who came to urban areas after the American Civil War to find work. Twenty-four million people moved to urban areas, causing their population to increase eightfold. Ethnic enclaves were created in American urban areas as many immigrants arrived, creating a more heterogeneous demographic. The Lower East Side was the most densely populated place in the world in the late 1800s.

They were crammed into filthy tenements, with 10 or 15 rooms per room, and the rich didn't care about them.

Riis found a job as a carpenter at Brady's Bend Iron Works after five days of using all of his money. After a few days, he began mining for a raise, but then resumed carpentry.

On July 19, 1870, he learned that France had declared war on Germany, and he hoped that his country would join France in avenging the seizure of Schleswig. He returned to New York and pawned most of his possessions, but was told there was no plan to send a volunteer army from America. He pawned his gun and left New York, but woke up and was served breakfast by a priest.

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Riis read in the New York Sun newspaper that the newspaper was recruiting soldiers for the war after a short period of farm work and odd jobs in New York.

Riis was offered a dollar for breakfast, but he refused because the editor had claimed or feigned ignorance. Riis was destitute, at one point he slept on a tombstone and survived on unexpected apples. He found work at a brickyard in Little Washington, New Jersey, and was there for six weeks until he heard that a group of volunteers was going to war. He went to New York.

Riis was too late to discover that the rumor was true.

He begged the French diplomat who expelled him. He tried several times to join, but none of them succeeded. Riis was without a job as autumn began.

He survived on food and handouts from Delmonico's restaurant and slept in public areas or in a smelly police shelter. Riis used to have a stray dog as his only companion. He woke up in a boardinghouse one morning and found that his gold locket had been stolen. The sergeant threw him out after he complained.

Riis was very sad. The story became a favorite of Riis.

He confessed that one of his personal victories was not using his final fame to ruin an officer's career. He left New York and bought a ferry ticket with a silk scarf that was his final possession. Riis appealed to the Danes for help after he got stranded in Philadelphia, and the Danes took care of him for two weeks.

Riis was sent to a former classmate's home in a suit. Riis worked as a carpenter in the western part of the state and also worked a variety of other jobs.

He achieved enough financial stability to find time to experiment as a writer, but his attempt to get a job at a newspaper in Buffalo, New York was unsuccessful, and magazines rejected submissions for him. There are 22 words.

One of the reasons Riis was in high demand as a carpenter was the low prices he charged. Riis returned to New York City because his employers exploited his efficiency and low prices. He was promoted to their sales representative for Illinois because of his success as a salesman.

He had to return to a previous base in Pittsburgh after he was fleeced of his money and stock in Chicago. The subordinates of his that he had left to sell in Pennsylvania had deceived him in the same way. He had little money and was sick with a fever when he received a letter from a cavalry officer saying that he was engaged to a woman.

Riis went back to New York to sell plates again. There are 24

Riis was appointed the city editor after he noticed an advertisement for a publisher. The editor-in-chief was dishonest and in debt, and that's why the job was available.

Riis left in a couple of weeks.

Riis went back to the Five Points neighborhood. He was sitting outside the Cooper Union when the principal of the school where he had previously learned telegraphy noticed him.

The New York News Association was looking for an apprenticeship if Riis had nothing better to do. Riis went for an interview after a hasty wash at a horse trough. He was sent on a test assignment to observe and write about lunch. Riis covered the event well.

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Riis was able to write about the immigrant communities. He was promoted to editor of the weekly News.

The newspaper went bankrupt soon after. Riis received a letter from his home saying that his siblings, aunt, and fiancée had died. Riis bought the News company with the help of $75 of her savings and IOUs. 26

Riis paid off his debts after working hard at his newspaper.

Newly independent, he was able to target politicians who had previously employed him. He received an acceptance from Elisabeth, who asked him to come toDenmark for her, saying "We will fight together for all that is noble and good."

Riis was able to arrive inDenmark with a large amount of money because the politicians offered to buy the paper back for five times its price. There are 27

The newly married couple moved to New York after a few months in Danes. Riis worked as an editor for a South Brooklyn newspaper.

He used a magic lantern projector to advertise in Brooklyn, projecting onto a sheet strung between two trees or onto a screen behind a window. Riis and a friend moved to upstate New York and Pennsylvania as traveling advertisers after the novelty was a success. Riis returned to New York City after the pair became involved in an armed dispute between railroad workers and the police. There are 28

Riis was recommended for a short-term contract by a neighbor who was the city editor of the New-York Tribune. Riis was offered a job as a police reporter.

He was based in a press office. "Nicknamed 'Death's Thoroughfare,'" writes Riis biographer Alexander Alland, "It was here, where the street bends its elbow at the Five Points, that the streets and numerous alleyways radiated in all directions, forming the filthy core of the slums. of New York."

Riis worked in the city's most crime-ridden slums while he was a police reporter. He decided to make a difference for the poor after seeing their conditions in the city's slums.

Riis became one of the first reformist journalists because of his melodramatic writing style, which he developed while working the night shift in the immigrant communities of Manhattan's Lower East Side.

Riis had been wondering how to show the misery he wrote about more vividly than his words could convey.

He tried to draw, but he was not good at it. Photography did not seem to be useful for reporting living conditions in dark interiors because of the slow camera lens of the 1880s.

Riis was surprised to read that a way of taking pictures with a lantern had been discovered. The darkest corner could be photographed in that way." The German innovation, by Adolf Miethe and Johannes Gaedicke, the flash powder was a mixture of magnesium with potassium chlorate and some antimony sulfide for stability; gunpowder was used in a pistol-like device that fired cartridges. The introduction of flash photography was this one.

Riis told a friend, Dr. John Nagle, head of the City's Health Department's Office of Vital Statistics, who was also an amateur photographer. Two more photographer friends, Henry Piffard and Richard Hoe Lawrence, were found by Nagle and began photographing the slums.

His first report was published in the New York newspaper The Sun on February 12, 1888; was an unsigned article by Riis that described its author as "a spirited gentleman, combining in person, though not in practice, the two dignities of deacon in a Long Island church and a police reporter in New York." ". The Other Half: How to Live and Die in New York is described as a basis for a lecture that will be given at church exhibitions and the Sunday school.

The photographs were used to illustrate the article.

The first Americans to use flash photography were Riis and his photographers. Gun lamps were dangerous and threatening looking and would soon be replaced by another method, in which Riis ignites magnesium powder in a frying pan.

The process involved removing the lens cap, lighting the flash powder, and reattaching the lens cap; the time taken to ignite the flash powder sometimes allowed for a visible blurring created by the flash.

Riis's first team got tired of the last few hours and he had to find other help. One of his assistants was dishonest, selling dishes that Riis had paid for. Riis was successful in his lawsuit.

Riis paid $25 for a 45 box camera, plate holders, tripod, and equipment for developing and printing in January 1888, after Nagle suggested that Riis should be self-sufficient. The team practiced at Potter's Field Cemetery on Hart Island. The result was very well received.

Riis combined his own photographs with others commissioned by professionals, donations from hobbyists, and purchased flashlight slides to form his photographic archive.

He was able to photograph the worst elements of New York's slums, dark streets, apartments, and "stale beer" dives, and documented the hardships faced by the poor and criminals, especially in the surrounding area.

Riis tried to submit illustrations to magazines. Riis was discouraged by the publication of the magazine, and thought of speaking directly to the public, after the editor said he liked photography but not writing.

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Several churches, including Riis's, objected to the talks being held in a church because they feared they would offend wealthy and powerful people. Riis's lecture was sponsored by the City Mission Society and the Broadway Tabernacle church. Riis and W. L. Craig were both employees of the Department of Health.

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Riis and Craig's lectures made little money for the couple, but they were able to meet people who had the power to effect change and expose more people to what Riis was saying. Henry Parkhurst was invited to submit an illustrated article by the editor of Scribner's Magazine.

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Riis' article How the Other Half Lives appeared in the Christmas 1889 edition of Scribner's Magazine. Nineteen of his photographs were rendered as line drawings. The material was invited to be expanded into a full book after its publication. Riis, who was in favor of Henry George's "single tax" system and absorbed George's theories and analysis, used that opportunity to attack landlords with Georgian fervor.

Riis started writing a book at night. Reporting for the New York Sun and speaking for the public were what the days were for.

In 1890, How the Other Half Lives was published. The first extensive use of halftone photographic reproductions in a book was represented by the book's reuse of eighteen drawings that had appeared in Scribner's article.

For about a year beginning in 1888, Sun and Shade magazine did the same thing. )

The Other Half Lives was highly valued.

Some critics criticized the reviews for oversimplifying and overdoing it, but they were generally good. Riis attributed the success to a popular interest in social betterment stimulated by William Booth's In Dark England and the Way Out and also to Ward McAllister's Society as I Have Found It, a portrait of the moneyed class. The book encouraged imitations of Riis's photographs, such as Lights and Shadows of New York Life.

Riis wrote about some children he had encountered in Children of the Poor.

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The Making of an American is an autobiography that follows Riis's early life in Danes and his struggles as an immigrant in the United States. The book describes how Riis became a reporter and how his work in immigrant enclaves sparked his desire for social reform

Riis arranged his book chronologically, but each chapter illustrates a larger theme that America is a land of opportunity for those bold enough to take a chance. The autobiography is mostly straightforward, but Riis isn't sure if his past should be told as a "love story", "if I am, to tell you the truth...I don't see how it can be helped." Although much of it is biographical, Riis also sets out his views on how immigrants like him can succeed in the United States. Elizabeth, Riis's wife, describes her life before she married Riis in chapter 7.

Riis's other books received some praise, but he received mixed reviews for his autobiography.

A New York Times reviewer thought it was a vain project. He admired Riis's "stubborn courage" and "indomitable optimism", but dismissed his "almost colossal egoism" as one of the author's main characteristics The reviewer anticipated that the book would be read by a lot of people who have a penchant for personal and emotional incidents in Riis's life. Riis anticipated the criticism, "I've never been able to explain what a great career 'How The Other Half Lives' had... like Topsy, she grew up." Riis's story was one of the most popular in the United States, according to another reviewer.

The value of Riis's book lies in the description of his beginnings as a reformer. Riis used his first experiences in Ribe to measure the quality of life of the dwellers.

The account of his experiences as a poor immigrant gave authenticity to his most important news articles and works. Riis used to demonstrate the rare opportunities that seem to exist only in the United States with his themes of self-sufficiency, perseverance and material success.

The Making of an American is a useful source for students of immigration history and sociology who want to learn more about the author of How The Other Half Lives and the social reform movement he helped define.

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