How to Search Wine Inventory At Any Costco Store

There was a massive, barely noticed update to the Costco mobile app. And get this, it finally lets you search the inventory at Costco stores, right from your smartphone.

This is huge news as it can save countless trips to stores searching for bottles. And other items too. And it works really well.

Let’s take a look at an example.

Here’s a screenshot of the new app, and you can see a tab at the bottom labeled “Warehouse.” That will bring you to the page pictured above with the details of your chosen warehouse. This is also where you can choose to switch your store location and it will show stores nearby to select from.

When you hit the Search Warehouse Inventory button you will see the screen above. Simply type in you’re looking for and hit Search. For this example, we will search for “Barolo.”

Here are the results, and as you can see we have a nice selection of Barolo in stock at the Perimeter store in Atlanta (might have to make a trip). Top of the list is the Kirkland Barolo, which is nice to know is still in stock here.

When an item is running low the app will indicate that as well.

This is going to be amazing for so many readers looking to find wines in the stores around them. Previously we recommended calling stores or chatting online at Costco.com using the item number.

But now it’s just a few clicks away. This doesn’t seem to be available on the website yet, so mobile only for now.

Cheers

Editor

Quick update as we play with this a bit more.
A search for just “wine” does a good job of bringing up what appears to be the entire store’s wine selection.
And a search for “Kirkland wine” presents a good list of just the Kirkland Signature wines in each store.
Also, as mentioned in the comments, it would be great if you could see the vintage. But since Costco doesn’t have different item numbers for different vintages, and often puts multiple vintages in the same bin, we’re not sure if we’ll ever get to see that.