S/O: Costco stories

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Oh my god, the Chantilly Costco is a nightmare. My mil goes there and I've had to go with her a few times. After the first time I started taking Xanax before I went. Can't deal with all the terrible drivers in the parking lot and rude ass people inside.

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Anonymous wrote:On checking receipts: there are so many people now from different "cultures" who think nothing of stealing, that it's impossible to not do it. It's basic safety like locking doors and not leaving one's purse unattended. Street smarts of sorts.

You have. Been reported

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Anonymous wrote:Oh my god, the Chantilly Costco is a nightmare. My mil goes there and I've had to go with her a few times. After the first time I started taking Xanax before I went. Can't deal with all the terrible drivers in the parking lot and rude ass people inside.

Interesting. My son and I were in chantilly last week at a park and he asked for food from Costco's snack bar when we left. We went in to shop around a little and my son said "where are all the savages?" lol. The store was pretty empty. We usually shop at the one in Fairfax and it's terrible. People are so damn RUDE in that store. My son has been pushed out of the way by adults when he was clearly in line for a free sample on multiple occasions. People lose all common decency over some free samples in that store. Pathetic. I wish we lived closer to the chantilly store. It was so calm compared to the Fairfax store.

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Anonymous wrote:Soup was Tokyo style chicken shoyu ramen from the brand that makes the chicken fried rice.

It's Ajinomoto, which is a huge brand in Japan.

I got hooked on this ramen too and was sad when it disappeared. But it's back now! At least at Chantilly. Or Sterling? We live in between them and don't always go to the same one. UGH! Now I want this Ramen right now.

[Anonymous]

Are the free samples at Costco so great that people stand in line for them? They do it at Giant sometimes and people usually avoid making eye contact just so they won't feel obliged to take a sample.

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Anonymous wrote:On checking receipts: there are so many people now from different "cultures" who think nothing of stealing, that it's impossible to not do it. It's basic safety like locking doors and not leaving one's purse unattended. Street smarts of sorts.

Well today I accidentally left my purse in my cart at Costco while I walked 2 aisles away to get something. No one, from any of the many cultures represented, took it. It's also common to park your cart of paid items while you visit the snack bar, and I have never had anything stolen from my cart.

The receipt thing is because they don't bag items so it's impossible to know who has been through a cashier, and as someone mentioned there are no low value items at Costco. It would be easy for one bad apple to cost the store $1000 at a time.

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Anonymous wrote:Are the free samples at Costco so great that people stand in line for them? They do it at Giant sometimes and people usually avoid making eye contact just so they won't feel obliged to take a sample.

They are substantial (not cheese cubes) but I think it's more that Costco is a special trip for a lot of people, and free food is part of the experience in a way it isn't at Giant. A few weeks ago I actually saw an adult birthday party there: they bought a cake and then ate it in the food court, with balloons. Because of the balloons I know they visited the samples as a group, too.

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Anonymous wrote:So...why is it OK for a store like Costco to ask me to show my receipt for items that I have already bought and now own?

Part of Costco's membership agreement you sign when you become a member.

If you told guests you invited to your home that "they were subject to a pat down search before leaving", because "that was your policy", do you think anyone would come over?


That's why I'll never belong to Costco. Because I won't do business with a place that assumes I'm stealing and requires me to prove otherwise.

Go ahead and save $.02 an ounce on a gallon of mayonnaise. My honor and self respect are worth more to me than that.

Oh, the outrage!

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Anonymous wrote:So...why is it OK for a store like Costco to ask me to show my receipt for items that I have already bought and now own?

Part of Costco's membership agreement you sign when you become a member.

If you told guests you invited to your home that "they were subject to a pat down search before leaving", because "that was your policy", do you think anyone would come over?


That's why I'll never belong to Costco. Because I won't do business with a place that assumes I'm stealing and requires me to prove otherwise.

Go ahead and save $.02 an ounce on a gallon of mayonnaise. My honor and self respect are worth more to me than that.

Why does it bother you so much? It takes maybe 10 seconds out of my day. I move on and literally don't think about it again. There are more significant issues to be pressed about.

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And the nice old guy who checks receipts at our Costco draws a smiley face on the back of the receipt when he's done checking. I look forward to it!

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Anonymous wrote:Are the free samples at Costco so great that people stand in line for them? They do it at Giant sometimes and people usually avoid making eye contact just so they won't feel obliged to take a sample.

I never bother with the free samples. And the people crowded around them always make it difficult to navigate the aisles. Very annoying.

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Anonymous wrote:Costco is actually a great place. Bright open a cheerful as compared to BJ's. Good deals and some absolutely great food items. Worst thing is when they eliminate one of your favorites. They will spoil you on something do out of this world and then just take it away. The worst for me was an Asian soup, called the company that makes it and they said they have an exclusive contract with Costco but suddenly Costco would only sell it in California. I have seriously considered buying it bootleg from an Asian reseller in California that ships frozen goods. It would be $20 a bowl though and that just makes me sad. It was the best thing ever. I ate it every single day for two years until it just disappeared.

which soup?

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Anonymous wrote:At my old Costco in NC a woman was nursing her baby on the patio furniture display. Someone complained (perhaps they were shopping for furniture??) and she was asked to use their lactation room instead. Outraged that she was asked to move, she took to Facebook and recruited 100 other lactivists to come back and stage a nurse-in in the middle of Costco.

I'm all for breastfeeding, but surely most sane people can understand why a furniture display isn't the most appropriate place for it?

I have nursed in the patio furniture display at Costco actually. I'm not a crazy lactivist, but we got caught in horrible traffic on the way to the store and the baby was very thirsty and melting down. I'm discreet though and covered with a blanket. Thankfully, no one said a word to me. It's not that weird to sit on a chair and feed a baby. Most public spaces don't have designated "lactation rooms" and it's no big deal to just find a spot where you won't be in the way and nurse. Just like you'd sit down wherever and give a bottle.

You should've stayed in the car.

Right. In 105 degree weather in Texas. Fortunately people there are a lot more chill. Attitudes like yours are why nutty lactivists exist.

Why not nurse discretely on the picnic tables near the concession stand rather then on display items? They are inside. I'd think the same thing about a baby with a bottle. You can't just plop down and nurse/feed your child wherever.

At this particular location, the patio furniture was a MUCH more discreet location than the concession area. And with your attitudes I'm guessing you would have been horrified to think of "bodily fluids" where food is being sold. There's nothing weird about sitting on display furniture...IKEA actually encourages moms to feel free to BF at the displays in their stores.

http://inhabitat.com/inhabitots/ikea-welcomes-breastfeeding-mothers-to-nurse-in-the-chair-of-their-choice-in-any-staged-living-room-storewide/

That's IKEA not Costco and you said you were discrete neither the concession stand nor snack dap in the middle of the furniture display are discrete locations. Further, I cannot fathom thinkingoh wow baby needs to nurse let's pull into the Costco for a minute then proceed to the middle of the store. I don't care if you are nursing your child,[b] it's just not necessary to do so wherever the spirit moves you. You know not everyone wants to see it and you know it makes others uncomfortable but you are clearly all about you.

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Np here. If the spirit moves me?? I think you don't know how breastfeeding works/feels.

Also I actually don't know that others don't want to see it or that it makes them uncomfortable because there is O rationale for that line of thought. It wouldn't occur to me that others would care. If you feel that way, look away. I see things all the time that are offensive to my eyes and that's what I do. I'm not all about me but I am all about my baby's and my physical discomfort.

You and the outraged "I will not show you my receipt" non Costco customer take the cake! Way to make weird topic tangents all about you!

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I'm surprised nobody mentioned this incident that happened at the Sterling Costco. I had a friend who was in the store at the time it happened .

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Deputy-Shot-at-Costco-in-Sterling-209389621.html

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Anonymous wrote:I'm surprised nobody mentioned this incident that happened at the Sterling Costco. I had a friend who was in the store at the time it happened .

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Deputy-Shot-at-Costco-in-Sterling-209389621.html

Whoa! Did your friend see the woman? Was she really acting crazy?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm surprised nobody mentioned this incident that happened at the Sterling Costco. I had a friend who was in the store at the time it happened .

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Deputy-Shot-at-Costco-in-Sterling-209389621.html

Whoa! Did your friend see the woman? Was she really acting crazy?

She did not say. She did tell me that she and her daughter hid out in the walk-in fridge and they counted the gun shots. Scary.