S/O: Costco stories

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. I don't go to Costco but it sounds like People of WalMart. I had no idea there was so much excitement at Costco. I always think of rich people as being very calm and unruffled.

only rich people shop at costco?

That's what I thought, because who else but someone rich would have the space for buying in bulk. Plus having to have a car to transport all the bulky items bought. PLUS having to pay a membership fee to shop there in the first place. I have a tiny studio apartment I share with my teenager. I can't afford a car and we don't have space for things.

I think the Costco is for rich people thought goes back to when you could only pay with Amex (which you have to pay off every month) or debit (so you have to have money in your account).

Median HHI income of someone shopping at Costco is 100k - and that's true nationwide. While this will open up a whole DCUM debate about how nothing less than 500k is rich -- median HHI of 100k is MUCH MUCH higher than the incomes of people shopping at Target and Walmart.

Right. People with Amex cards or cash to blow tend to have higher HHIs.

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Anonymous wrote:Once standing in the food line with my mom, a woman behind us kept being uncomfortably close to us. Extreme. Basically touching us. Repeatedly, we moved forward to give ourselves space. And she moved forward again, breathing on our neck. There was no line behind her/not a crowded area.

That's when I back up and say, "oh, sorry! Didn't mean to stand so close!"

This is perfect! I have this happen to me ALL THE TIME. It's so annoying and I never know what to do besides turn around and give an annoyed look.

Ok. So my Costco story actually occurred at a Marshall's or Ross. Can't remember which one. I was looking at the hooded sweatshirts for a Christmas gift for my son and these two women come over and start browsing the same rack of clothes as me. The one woman grabs a whole section of sweatshirts (about 50ish hangers of sweatshirts) and aggressively and forcefully shoves them into my direction so that all of the sweatshirts were bunched up at the end of the rack and I could no longer look because there was no room.

I was so shocked that I just started laughing at how ridiculous it was and walked away to look for my husband so I could tell him about it.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. I don't go to Costco but it sounds like People of WalMart. I had no idea there was so much excitement at Costco. I always think of rich people as being very calm and unruffled.

only rich people shop at costco?

That's what I thought, because who else but someone rich would have the space for buying in bulk. Plus having to have a car to transport all the bulky items bought. PLUS having to pay a membership fee to shop there in the first place. I have a tiny studio apartment I share with my teenager. I can't afford a car and we don't have space for things.

Average HHI is $60k-$65k for a Costco shopper.

It was a 100k as of 2015.

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Anonymous wrote:Re: rich people.

We are solidly middle class and shop once a month for certain items at Costco. I don't buy much, but I rarely leave without dropping at least $100-150.

It's common sense to know that people who are hovering near the poverty line can't shop at Costco. Aside from the membership, There's hardly a single item at Costco under <$10, and most are closer to $20.

I can buy chicken salad, some croissants, and some granola bars for $60, or a whole week's worth of groceries at Aldi.

Sure, I might save on things in the long run at Costco, but I can't buy the bulk toilet paper if it's half my weekly grocery budget.

This. While everything comes out cheaper at Costco if you think about unit price, for someone who is paycheck to paycheck and has a budget such that they only have $75 for one week's groceries, they can't spend $20 of that on a monster box of granolas bars. Even if those granola bars will last 2 months, they spend 1/4 of their weekly budget on it when they still need milk, bread, vegetables etc.

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But the fruit, fish, and meat are of very high quality and considerably cheaper per pound. Of course this is just a bonus if use their gas pumps to really save.

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Anonymous wrote:I saw a couple acting really shady in one of the deli/refrigerated areas. I looked closely and realized they had two 2-packs of quiche. One was spinach and the other was cheese, something like that. They opened the package - one of those clear plastic lid pieces that snaps into a black tray with a paper band around the whole thing - swapped the quiches so they would have 2 cheese and no spinach and returned the spinach one to the case.

Ew. You know someone bought the 2 spinach ones - not realizing that the package looked tampered with - and their quiches had been touched by god knows who.

I took the double spinach pack to an employee, who I'm assumed canceled it out. But yeah I was super grossed out by it!

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. I don't go to Costco but it sounds like People of WalMart. I had no idea there was so much excitement at Costco. I always think of rich people as being very calm and unruffled.

only rich people shop at costco?

That's what I thought, because who else but someone rich would have the space for buying in bulk. Plus having to have a car to transport all the bulky items bought. PLUS having to pay a membership fee to shop there in the first place. I have a tiny studio apartment I share with my teenager. I can't afford a car and we don't have space for things.

Why?

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Anonymous wrote:Please also provide the location of the COSTCO I am curious if inner city or close to city COSTCOs have more extreme issues

Get a life.

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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?

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. I don't go to Costco but it sounds like People of WalMart. I had no idea there was so much excitement at Costco. I always think of rich people as being very calm and unruffled.

I thought of people of Walmart, also. I've never been to Costco. I imagine the shoppers to be bargain hunters who have lots of storage space in their homes and who, apparently, enjoy food samples served on toothpicks as they shop.

Maybe there should be a people of Costco site?

I shop there. I've never seen anything crazy, or people flipping out. Also, I live in an 800 sf condo.

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Anonymous wrote:DC costco: multiple people only buying bottles and bottles of liquor and boxes of croissants.

Costco is the go-to supply run for office parties.

Gah. But why no cheese then? Or chips? Or pretzels? Just liquor and croissants?

I suppose we would qualify as the weirdos buying liquor and croissants. We live in MD, so our Costcos don't carry liquor. My DH will do a DC Costco run to stock up, and yeah, since you are going...bring me some croissants.

Same. I looove the DC costcoand it's alcohol.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. I don't go to Costco but it sounds like People of WalMart. I had no idea there was so much excitement at Costco. I always think of rich people as being very calm and unruffled.

only rich people shop at costco?

That's what I thought, because who else but someone rich would have the space for buying in bulk. Plus having to have a car to transport all the bulky items bought. PLUS having to pay a membership fee to shop there in the first place. I have a tiny studio apartment I share with my teenager. I can't afford a car and we don't have space for things.

I think the Costco is for rich people thought goes back to when you could only pay with Amex (which you have to pay off every month) or debit (so you have to have money in your account).

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Costco is for Democrats; Sam's Club is for Republicans.

Freaky Deakies go to BJ's.

Sam's club is owned by Walmart, which is why I will never shop there. Costco treats its employees well.

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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.

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The only crazy thing I ever see are the large extended families shopping together. Usually it's a nagging grandmother, misbehaving toddlers and exasperated parents. Also, usually East or South Asian, not sure why.

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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?

What are you talking about? Furniture displays are fine places for nursing. I had no idea costcos had lactation rooms, and I was already sitting down nursing, there's no way I would get up and move. I have breastfed dozens of times in the target furniture displays and have never had a problem.