Costco Liquor

Can you buy liquor at Costco with a passport Id if you do not have a massachusetts id?

Good products, fair selection, mostly great prices, sub-​par customer service. I’ve been a customer at this location for about 10 years.
Good products/​fair selection — you can often find good/​interesting wines here, but the overall selection is very limited. Occasionally you’ll find amazing wines in their value-​priced range, but other times you’ll just get the huge names you’ll find in any wine store (who wants that much Yellow Tail?) at a slight discount. I do wish they had more selection in the sub-​$ 10 range (especially since I’ve never seen a sub $ 6 wine at Costco, but have had some good ones from Trader Joe’s).
The prices are always at least good, but sometimes you find amazing prices — especially if you’re willing to go for the Kirkland Signature brand. I think the best deals are in premium spirits, but the wine is pretty good too. Their KS mixed beer pack is OK, but doesn’t go over as well at parties.
I think I have been carded 5% of the time I’ve gone there. I look (and am) well over 21, but an employee once told me that it’s also because I’ve been an executive member for so long, and you have to be 18 to join (I was over 21 when I joined, but it’s still been a long time), so I was clearly well over 21. I recently moved out of state, and updated my license accordingly, and that was enough for me to be treated like a criminal at this location. As others have noted, their policy (not their sign) states that every member of the party has to have a passport or MA drivers license on them (silly me for not realizing I needed my passport to visit friends and family in MA). It was extra annoying because my wife still has a MA license, so if I had known about the «every member» policy I could have just let her shop on her own. The worst thing was that the clerk held onto my license, and I had to wait about 10 minutes for a manager to show up and also treat me like a criminal, instead of just handing it back and explaining the policy to me. They’re welcome to have whatever policy they want, but you don’t need to detain me, waste my time, or be grumpy about it (I thought Costco was supposed to be an awesome place to work).
Note: they claim it’s the law in Waltham, but the law only states what is allowed to be used as ID to prove the BUYER is over 21, but doesn’t require that every person in a party be 21 (or have ID). This makes sense, because any other way would prohibit parents from ever buying alcohol unless they left their kids at home. The sign matches Waltham law, but their policy is more strict (even though they pretend they’re just following the law). The laws can be viewed here:
(section III.3)

The prices are fine, but they don’t carry any of their own Kirkland line, which is why we went in the first place. LAME.

Costco liquors has a small but decent selection of higher end liquor at great prices. The scotch in particular is a great buy here.
One warning though (and the reason I am giving 2 stars) is their absurd ID policy. You must have a passport or mass id for everyone in your party to by here.
My fiancé and I came here to shop for a party and after buying a ton of food, went to pick up the liquid fun. I hand the cashier my mass drivers license, costco card, and and credit card (all matching). He said he needs ID from everyone in the party so my fiancé hands over her NJ id. He was polite but said he has to check with a manager since it is out of state. The manager comes over, doesn’t even look at us or her ID, and immediately screams that we have to show him a passport or leave the store and not come back for at least one business day! He made it seem like this was a reasonable request, and that we would of course be carrying passports.
I understand their need to protect themselves, but we are in our mid 20s, well over the legal drinking age and both had valid government IDs proving our age. My fiancé with the out of state ID wasn’t even purchasing the alcohol! He could have used discretion, or at the very least not been so rude.

Sure… not a full liquor store, so the selection is limited. But on the plus side, they try to stay seasonal with what they have (champagne around New Years, Guinness around St. Patty’s). Also on the plus side (for non-​Costco members at least), no need for the membership to shop this part of the store. Yay!
Great place to load up on wine, or for stocking for a party.

Okay… so they don’t have EVERYTHING. It’s definitely not a full liquor store, but they do have a lot of the popular stuff. And while I don’t drink the popular stuff (i.e. beer), I do drink wine and hard liquor. But they don’t have SoCo!!!
But again they do have some wines and on the cheap. I walked out last week with 2 bottles of wine for $ 16.
And if you’re ever planning a party, this is definitely the place to go to stock up.

The sales lady treated me and my wife like criminals. I had my I.D. (drivers license) but my wife did not because she is newly from another country. We both look way old enough, and the lady swiped the bottles away like a bully taking toys from a child and told us that she couldnt help us out and looked at us hatefully.
This was the worst customer service experience I have ever had. We complained to the manager on the phone who did his best to explain about the alcohol sales policies at Costco. Luckily he was kind and did his best to try to explain why their staff might have acted this way.
I know that there are stiff fines for selling to underaged people, and liquor stores have their policies, but there was no reason to treat loyal paying members of Costco in this hateful, loathesome manner. It doesnt pay to save a few dollars when treated this way.
I love Costco and still shop at Waltham, but after the incident with this witch I buy my wine and spirits elsewhere, like Cambridge Wine at Fresh Pond where they have wine samplings and helpful, knowledgable and friendly staff.

We made the trip from Boston to this Costco location Saturday night just to buy wine. Thanks to all the Unilocal reviews we knew where to go for a Costco Liquor. We bought our standard items at this Costco, chicken, pork chops, cleaning products, etc. But we also got to buy a case of wine. My husband and I love wine so this trip saved us a good deal of money. The case of wine cost us $ 150. We figured out that we saved at least $ 2 on every bottle. Our wine fridge and wallets are now more full then they were before!

The Costco Liquor department may not have EVERYTHING you are looking for, but you will find something you like.
We routinely find bottles of wine well below what we can buy it for at Marty’s or Martignetti’s. If it is $ 15 at a normal liquor store, you are looking at between $ 9 — $ 11 at Costco. It is far easier to rationalize a case of wine at Costco than anywhere else.
And the beer and liquor as well. An 8-​pack of Guinness cans at a liquor store costs slightly less than a 16 pack at Costco.
Champagne is also at the discount.
Well worth the trip out to Waltham.

Great deals of booooooze!!! We got bombay sapphire here for 17ish dollars! Stoli Elit for $ 50! Johnny Walk Blue Label for um… don’t remember but not more than $ 200! Raspberry Stoli was less than $ 20…we got alotta booze for really cheap! You need a MA id or passport to buy which sucks but the deals are awesome!

A let you all in a little known secret. You do not need to be a member of Costco to buy at their liquor department. They carry all named brands at discounts from 25−40% over most others. Check it out, then invite me for Margaritas. I’ll bring the nachos.