getting pricey...

Well for 750 mega liters that seems like a reasonable price. About 28 m³ per unit of money! Buy buy buy!
- For context 28 CBM is about the volume of a 20' container.
  Or a stacked pallet is about 1.8 CBM so about 15 standard height pallets.
  
  Proof that Americans will use literally anything but metric:

Well, thank goodness it wasn't 27,000.
That would be way too much!
- I'll wait for the * price tag... And a winning lottery ticket.
  But seriously, a Scotch barreled in 1948? I didn't know they aged anything that long.
  
  Remy Martin's Louis XIII is a blend of cognacs all aged between 40 and 100 years.
  
  Strictly speaking it's "only" aged 51 years, these were released in 1999

I know everyone’s general focus is on the cost of the thing and how ridiculous it seems, completely ignoring that it’s a Scotch that was aged longer than the overwhelming majority of us—me included—have been alive, and that there are some people for whom that taste is very much worth it.
Me, I’ve wrangled with exactly how you’re meant to pay for the thing and walk out the door with it. Am I bringing $27K—plus tax—worth of cash—three straps of hundos?—to Costco and having the cashier count it? Do I get pulled into the manager’s office instead? Or, do I put this on my Costco Citi Visa? Will they decline it, even if I have the credit limit? Can I sub in another Visa, since that’s all they take? Do I get walked out the door, or do I get a receipt for the checker to sharpie a line through?
- If you have to ask you can’t afford it.
  People buying 30k bottles of wine are generally the kinds of people that don’t have a “credit limit” like we’re used to. They probably also have people that go get that wine for them, and likely pay by credit card or check.
  
  They also seem unlikely to shop at Costco
  
  Oh, I acknowledge that.
  However, there are two things I get hung up on. One, can’t pay by check—Costco doesn’t accept checks. And, two, the traditional no-limits cards are generally Amex, which they don’t accept—only Visa.
  So, yes, while nothing else you said was wrong per se, I’m still left to ponder just how the transaction would go down.
- there are some people for whom that taste is very much worth it.
  You are correct, but to be clear, it's not so much that tasting this scotch is a life changing experience; it's more that to these people, 27k is just chump change.
  
  Also, stuff like this is often purchased not to drink, but as an investment.
  
  It's also about knowing that it's so exclusive that regular people can't experience it. Take away the pricetag and it's isn't nearly so appealing.
  Veblen product, innit
- there are some people for whom that taste is very much worth it.
  That's just not true, though.
  Things rich people buy are often about scarcity/vanity, not how good they are
  Diminishing returns for increasing quality
  You can overpay for anything and people/companies are ready to profit off that
  Supposed expert "connoisseurs" haven't been able to tell famous high-priced wines apart in controlled taste tests.
- Doesn't mean it's worth 30k. There are whiskies just as old and better that aren't sold at that price.
  This item is not sold 30k because its old, or even rare. It's sold at that price because there's always a rich sucker who wants something expensive.
- Maybe they have financing plans.

27 Grand and the bottle just sits on the shelf?
- Pick up at register
  
  Ah, thanks. Wasn't wearing my glasses. :)

And there’s starving homeless in this world but 30k for a bottle ? Fuuuuuuuuuuu
- They should start selling $30k bottles of booze.

What currency is that?
- The I've run out of diversity in my portfolio one
- The Kirkland branding is everywhere. I see it at the Australian stores.
  
  None of the Anglosphere currencies would make this anything other than the price of a car anyway. This is absolutely just a collector's item for those with more money than sense, never expected to be actually drunk
  
  Kirkland Signature is Costco's store brand.
  
  There's also a Kirkland near Montreal, so it could be Canada. But as it's already been mentioned, it has nothing to do with location in this case.
  
  I doubt this is in the US. The key indicator for me is the Napa valley wine beside it. Unless Costco does things very differently, imported bottles are always grouped into the same aisle. Given that I'd guess its outside the US.

What a deal! I'll probably never taste it.