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Brix Wine and Spirits (CLOSING)

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Brix, a new Wine and Spirits concept to take over the long vacent Wild Oats building at Village pointe

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Brix will open in November 2009 in former Wild Oats location
Brix a dynamic, new wine and spirits business concept, will open in about 21,000 square feet of the former Wild Oats building located on the corner of 170th and Burke Streets. The Brix concept combines three main business components to create a unique approach to wine and spirits retailing – product sampling, education and hospitality.
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I give them a year.
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In fairness, there's a lot of traffic on that end of VP.  They're literally a cougar hop away from Kona and Johnny's, so if they can show value and not suck things up, they have a chance.
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I think it's simply a matter of scale... a 21,000 square foot wine establishment?  Not in this town.
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You've obviously never been to Prestige.
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Are you kidding?  It's practically in my 'back yard'.  

Prestige must be well under half the size of the former Wild Oats space.
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I think it will do really, really well.

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Big E wrote:literally a cougar hop away
Are you implying about the clientele.
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Post by omahastylee459 »

Several of my friends moms growing up were stay at home moms.  Wine was part of their daily diets, I bet this place will get some decent business.  Although it does seem to be quite a large space.  How does this sq. footage compare to a place like Spirit World?
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omahastylee459 wrote:Several of my friends moms growing up were stay at home moms.  Wine was part of their daily diets, I bet this place will get some decent business.  
:lol: My husband's out making money and my kids are in school and I have the house to myself. Woe is me! :lol:
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omahastylee459 wrote:Several of my friends moms growing up were stay at home moms.  Wine was part of their daily diets, I bet this place will get some decent business.  Although it does seem to be quite a large space.  How does this sq. footage compare to a place like Spirit World?
I know a midtown stay at home mom in her early 30s that has a cocktail every night at 5pm (Mr. Midtown is a surgeon).  She rings a little bell and the kids go play in the other room for a while because the bell means it's "mommy time."  I'm not even kidding.
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I wish it well.
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They finally fill the Wild Oats space but now the World Market space is open.
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Brix in business now at Village Pointe

http://www.omaha.com/article/20100108/E ... tainment01
Nichole Aksamit, OWH wrote:Majority owner Dan Matuszek said the retail side of his highly anticipated spirits-and-more store opened Saturday at Village Pointe shopping center.

Earlier plans had the store opening before Thanksgiving, during Christmas week and before New Year's Eve.

Matuszek said bad weather delayed some construction and internal testing and, sadly, nudged the opening to just after three key liquor holidays.
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start the clock.
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Start what clock?
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I believe the Brix concept will do very well at Village Pointe.
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I want to go give it a try.  Maybe I'll bring my camera...
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I really question the business sense of people who would announce their plans in summer to remodel an existing building and be open before all the key holidays crucial to their business, and then blow past every one of those dates.  Hey, you move Heaven and Earth to "Get R Done".
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It's their loss more than anyone else.   Not too surprising there were delays after all the foul weather we've had since December 8th. Their sales would have been impacted by the weather anyway.

Too bad they missed the initial Thanksgiving date though....I'll give you that.
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I finally checked brix out last weekend.  I was impressed by both the selection (of wine, hard liquor and beer, as well as cheese) and the prices.  The prices were below the average prices for comparable wines elsewhere in Omaha, about like Costco.  They do need to work some kinks out.  There were more than enough people willing to help me pick out wine (I don't need any help in that regard), but no one at all to wait on us at the cheese counter, so after waiting 10 minutes we left empty handed.
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The Mrs. and I were there Saturday. They had set up 3 additional wine tasting stations manned my reps from the distributors of the particular wines at each station. Lucky Bucket owner Zac was then with a tasting station in the Beer area. And today at least the cheese counter was manned by two people. The place was packed. The weather outside was gray and misty. I wonder what crowds will be like on a beautiful Summer Saturday. But the farmers market may help it.

The prices were low. But I too, was expecting a much broader selection. But there were enough free tasting stations for me to cop a buzz.
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I think it's absolutely essential with the size of that place to have affordable/reasonable options.  Especially in this economy.  I normally buy the lower end of the scale but will occasionally make a jump up in price point.

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I hope they have a decent selection of local wines as well?
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I finally went here today. Went in to see their selections. My initial impression was a waste of space. They had a decent wine selection, a normal beer selection, an average cheese selection, an above normal seating options inside and out, but it felt flat to me for some reason. Out of place for a VP experience, almost too Wild Oats memories to make it feel genuine. While I was there not a single employee approached me. It felt dead this afternoon. I really don't know what I was expecting... But it was not there.
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And... From what I read their food is just generic. I guess what I was hoping for was a Spirits World West x 10.
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Coyote wrote:I finally went here today. Went in to see their selections. My initial impression was a waste of space. They had a decent wine selection, a normal beer selection, an average cheese selection, an above normal seating options inside and out, but it felt flat to me for some reason. Out of place for a VP experience, almost too Wild Oats memories to make it feel genuine. While I was there not a single employee approached me. It felt dead this afternoon. I really don't know what I was expecting... But it was not there.
I think you will find a completely different volume, energy and vibe on the weekends. Usually packed with groups of couples and friends.
My son got a 27 on his ACT. No this score is not as high as what Jeff's son achieved. But one has to remember the paternal gene-pool my son has to overcome. On a PGPAB [Paternal Gene-Pool Adjusted Basis], my son's score is a 37 and Jeff's son's PGPAB ACT score is 19.
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Well, I do admit I was there on a Tuesday afternoon, and it looked like it was built for a nice sized social hour. There was just one lady at the bar, no barkeep, an employee checking the beer fridge a couple outside and myself at the time I was there. I would hope they do better than that, I think the big screen TV was set to CNN, so I have to wonder what clientele they are catering to.
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A "normal" beer selection?  Where do you shop?  I think they have a huge variety of beers to choose from - more than Hy-vee.  I agree with the poster who mentioned the better vibe on weekends - there are many times when you can't get a seat at the bar or a table on the retail side.  Give them another chance!
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More than HyVee? Slightly more than than one on Pacific. Does it have a make your own six pack? I go to one that had 8 bays to choose from. Heck I live in a village of 15k and I have a place that has 3 bays of beer to choose from. And yes, I am a beer snob.
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I'd argue Beertopia has a better beer selection than Brix, and it's the size of a postage stamp.
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Coyote wrote:Does it have a make your own six pack?
Yes, I've done it once and I remember they had a pretty big selection. It's not in the coolers - it's on shelves on the wall opposite from them. I remember they had a pretty big selection, but I don't think it was bigger than Beertopia. But I'm pretty positive it's more than Hy-Vee.
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omaharocks wrote:A "normal" beer selection?  Where do you shop?
Here

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and a refrigerated walk in singles Bomber Buster room (a quarter of the room pictured here):

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My Bomber guests tonight ("Worlds Oldest Brewery"):


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That one on the left might be the best beer in the world.

And it's actually the world's oldest continually active brewery:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weihenstep ... ng_brewery
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Dear Moderators:

Could you please update the subject name?  I live very near the old Wild Oats at 78th & Dodge and nearly fell off my chair when I read this.  Alas, it's an old subject name relating to the OTHER Wild Oats site.  **sigh**   :roll:
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And here is another place I go to that has a good selection. It was suggested to me by golfer Craig Stadler (yes I am name dropping) he can only find his favorite Argentinian beer here.


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Barock Dunkel?

Sounds socialist.
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