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ABC Fine Wine & Spirits

ABC Fine Wine & Spirits

Family-owned retailer selling wine, spirits, cigars

Assistant Store Leader

Full-Time
No salary listed
Junior, Mid
Bachelor's
Gainesville, FL, USA
In Person

About the job

Requirements
  • Must be 21 years of age or older.
  • Ability to work a flexible schedule including nights, weekends, and holidays as business needs demand.
  • At least 6 months of proven experience and/or training in a management or leadership role, or at least 1 year of education from a college or technical school in Business Management or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Regular and predictable onsite attendance is required for the duration of scheduled shifts.
  • Ability to stand and move for extended periods of up to 8 hours or more.
  • Ability to bend, lift, and twist to move product and assist with merchandising.
  • Ability to lift and transport up to 40 pounds throughout the store and stockroom.
  • Ability to perform occasional overhead lifting and use ladders and step stools.
  • Ability to visually inspect product labels, signage, and displays and respond to visual cues and safety hazards.
Responsibilities
  • Assist the Store Leader in overseeing all store operations and fill in when the Store Leader is unavailable.
  • Demonstrate the company’s core values with Guests and Team Members.
  • Participate in Team Member performance management by providing timely feedback, coaching, encouragement, and documentation.
  • Greet Guests and provide excellent service.
  • Drive store performance metrics, including average transaction, Sourced and Certified sales percentage, and overall business growth.
  • Manage and resolve conflicts among Team Members or Guests using sound judgment and professionalism.
  • Oversee inventory control, replenishment, and merchandising operations.
  • Stay current on required training, company policies, and product knowledge to ensure compliance and provide an informed Guest experience.
  • Learn the company’s wine, spirits, beer, and cigar products and share product knowledge with Guests and Team Members.
  • Follow and enforce operational compliance policies to ensure safety.
  • Open and close the store, perform cash-control reconciliation, delegate tasks and assignments, assist with hiring and training staff, conduct performance reviews, and carry out disciplinary actions and terminations.
  • Perform additional duties assigned by store leadership.

About the company

ABC Fine Wine & Spirits

ABC Fine Wine & Spirits

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ABC Fine Wine & Spirits is a family-owned retailer of alcoholic beverages, cigars, and gourmet foods with 125+ Florida stores and a 2026 expansion into Colorado via the Applejack Wine & Spirits acquisition. Stores carry 10,000+ wines, spirits, and beers, and feature an exclusive Sourced & Certified collection hand-picked from producers for Florida-only sale. The business offers an omnichannel experience with e-commerce, curbside pickup, and same-day delivery, plus amenities like walk-in humidors and beer caves. Its goal is to grow its national footprint while maintaining wide product selection, exclusive offerings, and strong customer service under family leadership.

Company Size

501-1,000

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Orlando, Florida

Founded

1936

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What believers are saying

  • January 2026 Applejack acquisition starts national expansion beyond Florida for the first time.
  • June 2026 pediatric-cancer campaign signals brand goodwill and strong customer engagement.
  • ABC opened two Florida stores in 2026, showing continued domestic growth momentum.

What critics are saying

  • Applejack integration after January 2026 exposes ABC to unfamiliar Colorado competition quickly.
  • Delivery depends on Instacart storefront pricing, weakening loyalty economics and margin visibility.
  • Alcohol retail remains regulation-heavy; any Florida or Colorado licensing dispute hits expansion fast.

What makes ABC Fine Wine & Spirits unique

  • 125 Florida stores plus Colorado Applejack give ABC regional scale and local density.
  • Exclusive Sourced & Certified labels create private-label differentiation and margin control.
  • Omnichannel app supports same-day delivery, curbside pickup, and live rewards tracking.

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Benefits

PAID VACATION AND PTO

TUITION REIMBURSEMENT

EXCELLENT WELLNESS-BASED HEALTH INSURANCE FOR INDIVIDUAL + FAMILY

DENTAL AND VISION PLANS

COMPANY-MATCH 401K PROGRAM

EMPLOYEE DISCOUNTS ON WINE AND SPIRITS

EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (EAP)

PET INSURANCE

Company News

Solgari
Aug 24th, 2026
ABC Fine Wine & Spirits selects Solgari to strengthen internal support across its retail network.

ABC Fine Wine & Spirits selects Solgari to strengthen internal support across its retail network. Solgari will help ABC connect teams across its stores and offices, improve visibility of internal support conversations and create a stronger information base for future AI and analytics Orlando, Florida - 24th August 2026: Solgari, the Microsoft-native customer engagement platform, today announced that ABC Fine Wine & Spirits has selected Solgari to support a more consistent and responsive customer experience as the family-owned retailer continues to grow. Founded in Orlando in 1936, ABC has built a large retail footprint across Florida and is now entering a new phase of growth beyond its traditional home market with three stores now open in Colorado. With employees spread across stores, offices and support functions, keeping internal support simple and consistent becomes increasingly important as the organisation grows. ABC will use Solgari to support communication between its retail locations and internal teams, helping employees get the support they need more consistently across the business. For employees, the aim is straightforward: clearer access to support, better continuity when an issue moves between teams and less time spent repeating or reconstructing what has already happened. For the business, bringing those conversations into a more structured way of working will provide greater visibility into the support being requested across its locations. This will make it easier to identify recurring issues, understand where teams need help and improve how internal support is delivered over time. Solgari will support this within the Microsoft environment, helping ABC create a more consistent way for employees across its distributed estate to connect with the people and information they need. With all internal conversations being captured in a structured, usable form, they create an accumulating record of the questions, issues and knowledge moving through the organisation. That record can provide a stronger data foundation for future reporting, automation and AI, giving those tools useful organisational context rather than asking them to work from fragmented or incomplete information. As ABC continues to grow, the focus will be on keeping internal support simple for employees while giving the business better visibility into what its teams need and a stronger information foundation for what comes next.

PR Newswire
Jan 29th, 2026
ABC Fine Wine & Spirits Launches National Expansion with Applejack Purchase in Colorado

/PRNewswire/ -- ABC Fine Wine & Spirits, one of the nation's largest family-owned and operated alcohol beverage retailers, announced today that it has acquired...