Price postings checked against your price book before the state's deadline.

Today a pricing manager gathers the month's supplier cost notices, updates the price book, builds the state filing from it, and reads the filing line by line before the deadline: brand, container size and pack, case and bottle price, every quantity discount, the month it takes effect. Then comes a second look at any competitor price the house may choose to meet.

For the test, AI reads copies of those notices, the price book and the filing your team made, and lists every line where they disagree: a filed price that doesn't match the book, a discount missing from the filing, a supplier's new cost not yet carried through, an effective month that doesn't fit the state's calendar. Each item on the list cites the documents behind it. Nothing is filed and no price moves; the list goes to your pricing manager.

The calendar runs ahead of the sale. New York's rule, 9 NYCRR 65.2, has prices to wholesalers filed by the 25th of each month, taking effect on the first day of the second month after, and prices to retailers filed by the fifth; a date that falls on a weekend or legal holiday moves to the next business day. The State Liquor Authority's guide for liquor and wine wholesalers puts it simply: wholesale postings two months before the sales month, retail one month before. So a supplier's posted cost for a month is already on file when your retail filing for that month comes due, and the check reads the two side by side. The guide also lets a new item go up marked P, for a pending TTB label approval or state brand label number, for up to two consecutive months, so the check lists every P line still open.

A New York schedule says more than a price. Section 101-b of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law asks each retail schedule for the exact brand or trade name, the size of the package, the nature of the contents, the age and proof where the label states them, the bottle and case price to retailers, the net bottle and case price the seller itself paid, and any discounts for quantity or for time of payment. A brand may then be sold to retailers only at the prices and discounts in effect, and the same section bars different prices or discounts for retailers buying the same brand of like age and quality. The check reads every one of those columns against your book and the supplier's notice, so a missing quantity discount surfaces as surely as a wrong case price.

Meeting a competitor has its own short window. Under section 101-b, a wholesaler may amend its retail schedule within three business days after filed schedules open for inspection, to meet a lower competing price and discount on the same brand of like age and quality, never going below what it meets; the change takes effect the first of the next month. The SLA's guide says its retail module opens on the 16th, 17th and 18th for that purpose and nothing else. Where your team saved the competing posting, the check sets each amended line beside it and marks any that goes lower.

Connecticut posts on other dates. The Department of Consumer Protection's guidance, dated October 2025, has wholesalers post monthly by the 12th, effective the first of the next month, while suppliers post a year's prices by December 6 and mid-year changes by the 6th. Amendments are limited to what the department calls dualed products: a wholesaler may lower a price to match a competitor on a jointly dualed product by 3:00 p.m. on the fourth day after the 12th, excluding state holidays, and may never raise one. Each posting carries the brand name, container size, containers per case, the case price, a bottle price where split cases are sold, and any discounted price, and a special that ends must be posted again. Corrections are allowed only for typing errors, with documentation the department reviews, so the check matters before the 12th, not after.

Beer can follow rules of its own. California's Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control has beer wholesalers file a price schedule for each county where their customers have premises, through its online beer price posting system. A new schedule takes effect when filed, an amended one ten days after filing, and one filed to meet a lower competing price at once. A supplier increase announced for the first of the month therefore needs the amended county schedules in early enough to clear that wait, and the check compares each notice's date with the filing date your team used. Your reviewer, the pricing manager who files today, checks every listed conflict and every line the check passed.

When your reviewer says yes against the success criteria, the check runs on the filings due over the next 30 days or so, ahead of each deadline.

Your pricing manager reads every list, decides each conflict and files the posting, as today. Changing a price in the book stays a person's job.

Any further job is its own decision, with its own price.