Originally Posted by
kop84
I would probably agree that they COULD stock all the DL planes but only if they basically sold every can/bottle to DL.
Originally Posted by
DCAproducer
That could be the case.
With that said, they now have a heavy presence at the grocery stores here in Nortnern Virginia, so they must be producing enough to supply the big grocery chains outside of Atlanta.
Yeah, I was thinking that they have such a big presence in grocery stores all over now (even saw some up in Maryland). And, they moved into a much bigger facility a few years ago.
Did some googling while waiting for dinner...
Apparently
in 2013 they produced 144k barrels. At 330 12-oz. bottles/cans per barrel, that's something like 47.5 million beers in a year, or 130k/day. I have no idea how much of that is sold in kegs to bars, etc.
DL has something like 1,000 flights in/out of ATL each day, right? So, call it 12k beers/day that DL requires to supply those flights. Surely a significant chunk, but well within their production reach if they really wanted to.
I make no claims as to the accuracy of my math here, so feel free to call me out if this is completely wrong.
