I've been shopping at this location for nearly 20 years. The owner is always nice, greets me like a friend, and gets things he doesn't carry when I request them. Helix R. CLEARLY did not know where he was when he went to El Coqui, despite his claims of living in the area. The liquor store itself gets a lot of suspicious characters, people who steal often, so if the store owner doesn't recognize you and you're milling around his establishment he's not going to be kind to you or allow you to do that for long because of the things he has to deal with on the daily. No place HAS to give you service, and maybe next time, don't have an out-of-state ID, because Massachusetts has specialized IDs for those who are 21+ and they're required if you're buying alcohol, just not all stores follow that rule, and the owner of El Coqui does follow that rule because of the rough area in which his store resides and the trickery that people attempt to pull on him to get alcohol. read more