Nizga Liquors — Local services in New York

I came here to get a bottle of red wine for my mother's 50th birthday and asked if they could recommend me something within my price range ($50). I was quickly handed Vieux Chateau Negrit. A day later the bottle gets opened and the cork crumbles into a million pieces, where most of it falls into the bottle. Not a big deal, let's filter out the crappy cork pieces and get a taste. The wine didn't taste like wine at all. It was extremely spoiled and tasted worse than vinegar. After bringing this to the stores attention I was made out to be a liar and given the run around. They told me I need to see the manager who works the evening shift. Each time I stopped by (a total of three times) during evening hours I was given a list of excuses: told he wasn't there, that I need to see the "big manager" from another lower level manager (dominican guy), cashiers laughing at me and telling me they have no say in these types of decisions. I was basically shooed away. Nobody bothered to smell or taste the spoiled wine. They even excused the streaky acidic stains on the outside and inside of the wine bottle (sorry I don't know what the proper term for this is). What's funny, is that as a younger adult I worked for a liquor store, worked for a distributor and worked for an actual supplier during separate times. Bad product is a tax write off for a supplier/distributor. For a liquor store, you take in the bad product, give the customer good product, send in the bad stuff back to the supplier/distributor and they in turn send you good product, while writing it off in their taxes. It's a very, very simple process that this place refused to enforce. In conclusion, if you ever want to burn a $50 bill, this is the...

OVERPRICED. seriously just go down by the projects and you can get yourself the same bottle $20 cheaper. They are sitting on prime real estate on Ave A and 4th street so they know to target all the "new" new yorkers, and im sure they dont blink an eye. They also have a metal detector and a security guard and will stop you once you try to step into the "bottle area" and ask what you're looking for. At least other high end liquor stores tend to have an upscale look but this place in and out looks like a regular hood liquor store, cant believe a lady in the reviews called this your typical liquor store. Theres nothing typical about a hood looking liquor store with metal detectors and a security guard, with that and the jacked up prices these people must think its a club. Worst.Liquor.Store in...

Classic case of tacky, opportunistic, not to mention illegal-ish price gouging. Take for example a plain old name brand, Barefoot Wines: a 750ml bottle is maximum $6.00 elsewhere (i.e., the actual manufacturer doesn't officially allow retailers to charge more than $6 as part of their distribution policy), but this hole-in-the-wall marks it up to $10.99. The wine labels are all torn/ripped, too, which means they buy their inventory at a further discount! They do all of this with a straight face, too. There are lots of scammers in NYC, goes with the territory, but it's especially amazing when this one shop, among thousands, wins the top prize for...