LAS VEGAS -- Liquor has been sold at airports for years, but usually behind the security checkpoint at duty free shops.
Liquor Library is located right in McCarran's baggage claim so that anyone can grab their suitcase and their favorite bottle of wine or liquor before heading to their final destination.
"It's very convenient," said Jack Graham, visiting Las Vegas for a conference. "For me when I walked off the airplane, the bags aren't here, so lets go get a bottle of wine for my friend who's picking me up."
Customers said they have never seen anything like the store, which recently opened at the airport.
The bottles are shelved 10 feet high and employees need to use a library-style rolling ladder to reach the high-end spirits.
"We wanted to capture as much sales per square foot of floor space as we could, so going up was an answer," Liquor Library co-owner Chris Hasse said.
Haase projects that the store will make $2.5 million a year.
The airport stands to make about $300,000 of that by charging an annual rent of 15 percent of sales.
"I think the key for us with when we see the neighboring competitors trying to do business with taxis and limos at eight in the morning, we knew this was something that would probably fulfill a need and a convenience," said Richard Worthington, co-owner of Liquor Library.
However the business does, it's another thing that will make tourists say "only in Vegas."
"We're just here to have fun and make everyone's trip here a great experience," said Nichole Jhayem, a sales associate for the store. "It's the first thing they see."
The owners said they made $45,000 this first week and said business will only get better as more people learn where it is.
