audreyh1
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At our local Costco, the liquor store is adjacent (but attached) to the main store. It’s part of Costco, but is separate and no card required. Very good prices, but still not as good as Total Wine.
We have an attached liquor store (which is not Costco owned), but Costco still sells wine and beer inside the store. It's a completely different wine selection from the attached liquor store including all the Kirkland brand wines and much better prices - that's what you want to compare to Total Wine. Someone can buy those items without a membership. You just tell them at the store entrance.
It depends on the state whether hard liquor is sold inside Costco with the beer and wine. In TX hard liquor may only be sold in a liquor store. And there are further restrictions on who may sell liquor (spirits) which is why Costco doesn't even own the attached liquor store.
https://www.texastribune.org/2015/03/18/costco-joins-wal-mart-kroger-liquor-fight/Texas law currently excludes publicly traded corporations from selling hard alcohol and limits the number of liquor stores a company can own to five. Two bills filed in February by state Sen. Kelly Hancock, R-North Richland Hills, and state Rep. Jason Isaac, R-Dripping Springs, would repeal those laws.
The reason membership is not required to buy alcohol inside the Costco store is that most states have laws against requiring store memberships to buy alcohol.
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