S/O: Costco stories

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^^ agreed. That is why floor models are sold at a discount.

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Never been to Costco. At what point do they check membership, when you walk in, or at checkout time? I'd like to just have a look and see how it is and the prices, but not buy anything.

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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?

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Anonymous wrote:The worst was watching an anorexic trying samples and then seeing her vomit in a large trash bin in the cereal aisle. She looked so horrible and it was so sad to witness and not know what to say.

That's bulemic behavior. Anorexic people starve themselves. Still, very sad.

Many people are both anorexic & bulimic or have the purging subtype of anorexia (meaning they severely restrict their calories but sometimes/often purge what they do eat).

Did she actually vomit in the trash can or did she chew/taste the sample & then spit it out in the trash can?

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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.

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Anonymous wrote:Never been to Costco. At what point do they check membership, when you walk in, or at checkout time? I'd like to just have a look and see how it is and the prices, but not buy anything.

When you walk in

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

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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.

I had someone do that to me at Walmart once. I told her to back off and it surprised her, but she stepped back.

This happens to me all the time at the usual grocery stores - Giant, Safeway, and yes, Costco. Some people have no concept of "personal space."

In some other countries this is the norm, the personal space is just a foot or so. It's cultural and does not feel odd to them. When I was in rural Wyoming I noticed that people lined up with 5-6 feet of space. Or even hung back until they could walk up alone and not be near anyone. I felt uncomfortable and wanted them to move on up. I felt like someone might get in front of them if they didn't step up.

I realize this is cultural and doesn't feel odd to them. I guess the point is, here in the U.S., this is frowned upon. So it's incredibly annoying.

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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.

Costco seems to be a progressive company that treats their employees well and they seem like they would be ok with breastfeeding in their stores. In that same vein, who gives AF if a mom feeds her hungry baby there? She said she was covered, and even if she wasn't, it's not a big deal. To PPs who are concerned about bodily fluids, what about an incontinent old man sitting on the patio furniture? A kid with a poopy diaper? An obese person with their butt crack hanging out? All of those people are more likely to befoul the furniture than a woman breastfeeding an infant. SMDH.

OMG - this reminds me of something not really associated with Costco. I *can't stand it* when parents sit their toddlers up on the counter while they're paying for something. Who knows where that bum's been, or what's in that Pull-Up?? It drives me batty.

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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.

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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.

Lol ok.

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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.

I said this to the other poster... But it is the fact that your bodily fluids could get on the furniture someone else might buy.

No but What?? Nursing doesn't leak milk on anything. And I'm sure you wouldn't have said anything if a baby was drinking a bottle while a mom sat on a chair in Costco.

Seriously. I've breastfed at the Costco a million times. No one has ever said anything.

[Anonymous]

I don't think Costco is that much cheaper or has that higher quality of goods. You get better prices at places like Aldi per ounce without buying in bulk. I did like their croissants and cookies though. Mmmm

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Anonymous wrote:Never been to Costco. At what point do they check membership, when you walk in, or at checkout time? I'd like to just have a look and see how it is and the prices, but not buy anything.

When you walk in

I never show my card walking in. You don't have to be a member to go in, only to buy. The only time you need your card is at checkout.

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Anonymous wrote:^^ agreed. That is why floor models are sold at a discount.

Finally, someone with some sense!

People who end up with the floor models know hundreds of people have been sitting on them.