Wal-Mart Favoring Beer Distributor Business Model?

Read that title again. No, your editor hasn't been sniffing repack glue again. There is some recent evidence that Wal-Mart (and therefore other retailers, as retailers tend to follow Wal-Mart's best practices) will actually prefer a DSD model with multiple deliveries per week, thereby validating the beer industry's high-service DSD structure after all. That's the good news. The bad news is that they also want to move to a consignment sales model, whereby they don't pay for their goods until