I just want to make sure of one thing you wrote. You personally asked those places to carry the products, and they eventually did?
My personal experience has always been that it's not just liquor stores that will be responsive to customer requests for an item to be carried. Supermarkets, are the kings of responsiveness.
Generally, retailers of a particular category all have access to the same distributors.
No need to be bashful. Ask for assistance and a good retailer will try to deliver.
Nordstrom's wrote the book on it, literally. It's called "The Nordstrom Way":
Yes, I always Visited these Stores & they Write Down Customer Request All the Time .So Being a ROX investor told them about the different Brands that I thought would Sale very good for their stores and it was Ordered ,Sold Like wild Fire!...Doesn't Surprise Me At All with the great Jefferson Bourbons ECT: