Liquor Expo

Great selection, great prices, and an extremely helpful staff! They didn’t have exactly what we were looking for, but were able to find us a great alternative.

Love this place. I can always find what I want and something new and fun on my way home to Eugene.

OPEN!!!
I’m so glad that liquor expo is back open. Great prices and awesome service!!!

this place closed in feb. 2015
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I live in Portland and go to school in LA, so I have driven by the Liquor Expo several times coincidentally. I also just turned 21, so since my freshman year I have been wondering what lies inside of the huge red warehouse. I guess I am giving 3 stars because I was expecting the Disneyland of alcohol inside, and was disappointed that the expo was actually half the size of the building. Regardless, there are some great deals. I got a half gal of Bacardi for 18 bucks. Always a good deal of you are passing through.

Total rip off. Glenmorangie 12 yo for $ 67 and only $ 45 at the other liquor store in town. Check prices online before you buy!

The owners of this store succeeded in getting a few bottles of very special whiskey for me, and I’m super grateful. No other store within two hundred miles could have pulled that off, or would have even gone to the trouble to try. I will say a little thank you to Tim and Caroline each time I pour a glass.
Can’t say enough kind words about the level of service these folks provide. If you live in the area or are passing through, stop in and pay them a visit!

Would love to have been able to explore inside as the yellow pages stated it was open 24 hrs, but it closes at 8:00 pm. We stopped on our way home to Wa from Ca and were unable to shop as we arrived at 9:25 pm. Bummer! Can’t really rate it, but the disappointment made me feel like a 1 star.

Great place to shop for alcohol. It’s cheap and the selection is huge. The staff is friendly and very helpful. I haven’t bought gas here but I often check prices. They are decent compared to everywhere else. If you are throwing a party get your alcohol here.

Great place with great prices and great selection. Friendly staff that happily let us use their restroom.
Whenever we drive down I5 from Oregon, this will be a regular stop :)

Living in Portland OR but having driven down and visited family in Los Angeles for a week, I got very acquainted with liquor prices across a wide variety of stores. We’ve made it a tradition here in the land-​of-​the-​most-​expensive-​booze-​this-​side-​of-​Washington that any time we go down to CA, we haul back a pretty decent selection of liquor.
I like to price and shop stuff. So much in fact that before I bought anything down there, I visited several stores (BevMo, Rite-​Aid, Safeway, Trader Joes, some independents) to see who had the best price on what. Then, I made my purchases: this bottle from Rite-​Aid, that one from BevMo, a third from TJ’s etc.
On the way home, already with a decent selection in the trunk, we saw the road signs for Liquor Expo and decided to stop in just shy of the Oregon border.
Glad we did.
This place has an immense selection – almost as good a BevMo (certainly on anything I was looking for) and their prices overall were stellar. On several items (Glenlivet Single Malt 12 year scotch: $ 23, Pendleton Canadian Whiskey: $ 20) their prices were substantially better than I was able to find anywhere. Other items were priced at average-​for-​CA, which is to say much better than anywhere in OR anyway. And some items were a bit more pricey. Just as with anywhere else, you need to know what you’re looking for and what it should be selling for. Wise buyers get great deals.
All in all, though, for a middle-​of-​nowhere reasonably large-​sized store, their selection was great and their prices were awesome. This is definitely being added to our road-​trip stops! Additionally, as a side note, they DO have a bathroom, but it’s kept locked and for customers only. They were happy to let each Wife N and I use it while we were shopping there, but please don’t get the mis-​impression this is a public bathroom. There are plenty of other bathroom stops on I5. This is a Liquor store.

We have been stopping here for a long time every time we make the drive to and from Oregon. They have good prices on liquor and we were very happy with service up until today. We stopped to buy gas, use the restroom and purchase some alcohol. Because I needed to change our 3 month old daughter’s diaper (they don’t have a changing table in the ladies restroom so I had to do it in the car) I went in to use the restroom first and my husband went in after I was done while I changed the baby in the car. When my husband asked to use the restroom (they have to unlock it for you) the employee made a snide remark that my husband could use their employee restroom and «this isn’t a gas station, this is an employee only restroom but I’ll let you use it.» Mind you my husband had every intention of making a purchase after using the restroom. We are not the type of people to use a restroom without making a purchase. We have been giving the Liquor Expo business consistently for the last 5 years but after the rude customer service my husband experienced today we will be going elsewhere for cheap liquor on our trips to and from Oregon.

Liquor Expo is a fun place to stop and browse if you want to break up a long drive on I-​5. The staff is very friendly and the prices appear to be in-​line or slightly better than other warehouse shops in California. I’d say it’s worth stopping if you/​re returning home to OR /​WA and want to stock up on your favorite libations.

Certainly good prices for those folks heading back to OR/​WA —
Been by this place a million times, finally stopped — not that their selection is bad, but I just thought there would be much more volume.
worth the stop if you need to load up.

THIS PLACE RIPS YOU OFF !!!
If I could give it ZERO stars, I would!
Our family and friends (which amounts to A LOT of locals) are boycotting this place. Reason? One night in June 2013, at 12:20am, we pulled into this place. All we had was cash and we needed gas. Liquor Expo was closed. BUT they had 2 pumps which accept cash bills! So I put a $ 20 in the machine and… It didn’t give us any gas! We tried everything, nothing worked.
Then, to make matters worse, the machine gave us NO receipt!
We looked around trying to find the cameras, to make ourselves obviously known and seen as distressed. Then we got in our car and left to another gas station, where I was forced to call my Dad on my cell phone and ask his permission to use his debit card for gas, which was NOT good.
Still, I figured I could go back to Liquor Expo later and tell them what happened. Maybe get credit at the gas pump, or a refund. I figured they would honor a customer. So… I went back during business hours, and asked to speak to the manager. Described my car, license plate, and the time and date of the incident. Told him to check the cameras if he wanted proof of everything I was saying. See for himself that the machine never kicked on to give gas, and did not print out any receipts.
Well he just made a bunch of excuses, and refused to go check the camera, give me credit or a refund. He wrote down my name, address and phone number, and said he would pass the message on to the owners… But nobody ever called us! This place ripped us off, straight up! They took our money and kept it. And refused to do anything to remedy the situation.
So now… We refuse to buy anything from them, and so do all our family and friends. What they did was WRONG. They had proof on camera, and they did nothing about it!
We have also started a new tradition – every time any of our family or friends drive by this place, we roll down the window and yell «RIP OFF!!» Of course, you can show your distaste in whatever way you like– magnets on your car, bumper stickers, a statement of disapproval as you pass by… Whatever suits you. It has now become a regular tradition, and we hope that if enough people protest, maybe they will notice, and start HONORING their customers. Who knows how many people they have done this to with those machines?
But until they do start honoring business integrity… None of us are EVER coming back!

Nothing really special here. Their prices are basically the same as a Safeway or other supermarket and their selections isn’t that much better. I will say their «managers specials» are worth taking a look at but this is a tourist trap for the most part. Skip it unless you need a potty break while you’re driving!

I went here over the summer of 2012; I was greeted by friendly staff, they were knowledgeable about liquor/​liqueur and were able to answer my questions.
This store has got a large stock of many kinds of liquor, a bunch that I’ve not seen anywhere else.
Great prices, great people, good selection,
I’ll definitely be coming back when I’m around town (since I live in Seattle)

I never purposely stop here but somehow end up stopping here on every trip from CA-​WA. It’s easy to find, right off the freeway, plenty of parking and great specials. The ladies working are always super friendly and seem like they genuinely want to help you as well as know you. Who knew a liquor store out in the middle of nowhere could exceed my expectations?!! AND there’s a geocache very close by. Word.

Good specials, and tremendously helpful and friendly staff. Hmmm, good prices, friendly and knowledgeable… What more do you want — location? :)
Tip — if you have a few extra minutes, take the old road to Ashland — an awesome look back into history.

I like this place a lot and am really glad it is just 20 miles down I5 from my house. Up until Liqour Expo I usually stuck to Rite-​Aid for my liqour purchases when in town or stocked up when down in Redding or the Bay Area.
LE has an excellent selection of rums, vodkas, whiskeys, beer and liqueurs. The wine selection is decent and you will find something to fit the bill though not the vintage and particular producer you want. They cover most of the basic wine regions around CA and France and have a few older bottles if you want to splurge.
This place really has a nice microbrew beer selection of 22 oz bottles from CA and OR. Of course, you can get Keystone if that is your cup of pis* but I have no idea on prices for that. The micro-​brews were competitively priced with Bevmo.
For those driving back to Oregon or Washington and you need to stock up then STOP HERE! Or, if you are taking some back way over through Alturas to Nevada then get your suds and other poisons here.
And, the people are genuinely nice in here. I give it only 4 stars because compared to the huge liquor stores like Liqour Expo or Bevmo, LE is a bit limited. Overall though this is a gem of a store for the middle of nowhere and Grenada, CA is in the middle.