Anonymous
Post 07/21/2017 23:34     Subject: S/O: Costco stories
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2017 23:28     Subject: S/O: Costco stories
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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.


You beat me too it. And they move slooooooooooooowly through the aisles, never moving to one side or the other. Right down the middle.


Yes! Why?? Just leave the kids home with one person.


I hate slow walkers taking up the middle of the aisle, but can't the same also be said of the breast-feeding mothers mentioned earlier?
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2017 23:01     Subject: S/O: Costco stories
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2017 23:00     Subject: S/O: Costco stories
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2017 22:17     Subject: S/O: Costco stories
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2017 22:17     Subject: S/O: Costco stories
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.


Please tell me the name of the soup!
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2017 22:15     Subject: S/O: Costco stories
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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.


You beat me too it. And they move slooooooooooooowly through the aisles, never moving to one side or the other. Right down the middle.


Yes! Why?? Just leave the kids home with one person.
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2017 22:12     Subject: Re:S/O: Costco stories
On the first really cool day last fall I watched a woman return two large freestanding air conditioning units. She told the clerk, "They just didn't really work all that well."
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2017 22:10     Subject: S/O: Costco stories
Anonymous wrote: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.


You beat me too it. And they move slooooooooooooowly through the aisles, never moving to one side or the other. Right down the middle.
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2017 22:08     Subject: S/O: Costco stories
Anonymous wrote:
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.
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2017 22:06     Subject: Re:S/O: Costco stories
A middle aged White man in a BMW, coming all the way from Bethesda, returning unopened packet of sliced cheese at Gaithersburg Costco because his kids do not like the taste. I was in the line with him and told him that Costco just discards it and he is better of giving it to a neighbor. He sounded apologetic but then went right ahead and returned it. It is usually the well off people who are jerks.
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2017 22:02     Subject: S/O: Costco stories
Anonymous wrote:
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.
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2017 22:01     Subject: S/O: Costco stories
Anonymous wrote:
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."
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2017 22:00     Subject: S/O: Costco stories
Anonymous wrote:
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.


Its the fact that you are breastfeeding on items that someone might buy and it is possible that your bodily fluids could end up on the furniture.
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2017 21:58     Subject: S/O: Costco stories
Anonymous wrote:I saw a guy returning the big $5 bag of Doritos once. So many questions. Even if someone bought them by accident, Doritos are never WRONG.


OMG, I love you.