This is key: I picked out what I wanted to buy ahead of time by looking carefully at what Amazon offers for delivery from the warehouse. Tentative headline: "I bought a bottle of rye whiskey at Amazon's Secret Store." People would read that, I thought. I thought I'd jet down there, buy a bottle of rye whiskey, have some good LA food (finally I checked out the natural wine list at Night & Market Song), and write a story.
#Amazon mission wine and spirits license#
The license doesn't require the store to actually have all the merchandise in the store they could have an iPad catalog and they could fetch the liquor from the warehouse, and that would be legal. I thought it might be a closet-sized space with one employee, or something like that.
That piqued my interest, and I convinced my editor to splurge for an airplane ticket and some Uber fares for me to go visit this store. My editor and I pored over Google Earth images of the address and we didn't see anything that looks like a store. I reported on the existence of this Amazon "secret store" last week. There are other requirements, including offering for sale any bottle of wine or spirits that it offers for delivery from the warehouse. Amazon offers deliveries for 16 hours per day therefore, it must be open for eight hours. Prime Now's license specifically requires the store to stay open for half of the hours that Amazon does liquor deliveries from its warehouse. So Amazon got a license for a store that would be in the same building as its enormous Prime Now warehouse in an industrial part of north Los Angeles. California requires businesses that offer alcohol for home delivery to have a brick-and-mortar store. In February, Amazon, doing business as Prime Now, was issued a liquor license to open a liquor store in Los Angeles. Blake Gray/Wine-Searcher | The unassuming entrance isn't open to the public, despite the law saying it should be.Īmazon is openly flouting California liquor law.
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