Total Wine is a fucking war zone these days. Everyone hunting there knowing that it's the only chain in Houston that consistently shelves allocated bottles.
This morning I went to the TW in Memorial area. Got there about 10:05. Saw a dude with a bottle of ER in his hands looking at other bourbon bottles. Asked where he got the ER, and he pointed to a two-tiered little shelf in the middle of the aisle and it was kind of hidden on the bottom shelf. Grabbed one and kept looking. Dude said they shelved one case of 107 yesterday and that it lasted from about 10am-11:30am (sidenote: How does he know that? Does he stay there all day? Did he come back at 11:30am? Weird.) Didn't see anything else worth grabbing and started heading to checkout line, when I saw another cheap 3 tiered shelf near the corner of bourbon aisle, and three 107s were just sitting there by themselves (there were probably 5-6 other people in the bourbon section). No one else noticed but me. I grabbed one, alerted the others, and 2 guys came to take the last two.
I'm walking up to the counter to pay, and a TW employee comes up to me and says limit 1. I said yeah, I'm only grabbing one ER and one 107. He said, "no, you can only have one or the other". Haha, fucking ridiculous. I put the ER back and bought the 107. So stupid.