I do not understand why people aren’t satisfied with the uppermost (open) case of whatever when there’s a large stack (and, let’s face it–everything is stacked at Costco). I watch them struggle to lift 4 or 5 cases so they can pick one box of raisins from the 5th level down. I get if there was one left on top that was crushed or some other moron opened…but, really?
The other one is the family of 5 that walk next to each other (think front line of an NFL team) while pushing the cart as slowly as possible down the ‘wrong’ side of the aisle.
Just generally anyone with a bad case of main character syndrome, no self awareness and bad manners. We’re all here to shop ma’am just let me through.
“…main character syndrome…”. I know exactly what you mean. No situational awareness, that sense that some people have that they’re the only person that matters…
Came here to say this. Like can you not set your cart on one side of the aisle while you take up the other side? Plan ahead people…
The person standing in the middle of the aisle looking at their phone
The people who come barrelling out of a side aisle without looking
People whose kids are running rampant
Can you tell I just came from Costco???
LOL. Yeah, I did too. 😂
The tires being next to the food. Really don’t wanna smell tire as I eat. Maybe thats only my location
My totally plausible conspiracy theory is that the tire shop is close enough to the seating area that you don’t want to hang around too long (keeping turnover quick), but not so close to the ordering kiosk that it kills your appetite.
Been in 3 diff locations and they’re all set up this way. Probably because they both need to be at the front of the store.
At least one of the Costcos near me has the tire shop with a separate entrance not accessible from inside the main part of the building.
Interesting, my Costco has that exact setup. I’ve never eaten in the food court, so that never occurred to me…
Its the same over by mine. The tire shop garage doors are right next to the food court.
The slow roll through the parking lot looking for THE best parking spot. I suppose that’s not unique to Costco tho.
At the gas pump, straddling lanes way back to find the quickest line.
Bro… It’s a sample not a meal. Take one and move on.
Please… Please don’t sit at the tomatoes and pull the ones you don’t like off the stem and sub them out with others. Maybe this one’s just me but I don’t need y’all to touch everything and pick and choose at the individual tomato level. Go to a store that doesn’t sell in bulk.
God, yes, the “slow roll”. There are two dozen empty spaces at the far end, but you’re going to hold up traffic waiting for me to unload my cart…
There was one time I was trying to leave a parking lot and was stuck behind someone sitting waiting for someone to load their stuff so they could snipe the spot, but blocking the entire lane right next to the exit, so i honked at the sniper for blocking the way out of the parking lot and the lady unloading flipped off the sniper thinking they honked
You are the unintentional troll every Costco parking lot needs.
My Costco has a poorly designed parking area so the “slow roll” has people backed out onto the street. I always go I’m ediately to the back of the lot (and can get into the store before someone doing a slow roll, but I still need to wait for them, so I can even get in the entrance
(I guess this clusterfuck is why my town won’t let them put in a gas station)
For me it’s the fact that knowing that walking through that door guarantees I’m going to be at least $75 poorer in the next couple of hours.
Only $75? If I spent 2 hours in Costco, I would spend my entire paycheque.
Nothing crazier than going for a gallon of milk and then walking out with half the store. Seems to be a common occurrence for us.
You already took mine with that second one.
We got some wide MFers here. 3 people equals 5 no problem.
People who line up for samples and block spaces.
People who just leave their carts in the isle and walk off.
People who stand in the middle of the way and debate/converse if they actually need the item.
I can keep going.
The idea of the samples is fine. But they didn’t build their stores for them. It creates a huge tangle of traffic. I wish they would rearrange some shelves or something to solve this.
Are the samples really increasing sales that much? Or is it more about flinging free treats at people because they love that? Fending off low blood sugar during a long shopping experience?
I’d love to know the internal logic on samples.
Don’t know about you, but I’ve impulse purchased quite a few products at Costco (and some have become regular staples on the shopping list) because of a random sample.
That said, I do completely agree with you that a better layout would be ideal. Too many people just mingling around waiting for the next round of whatever that block everyone else.
I’m too intentional about my diet and money for that kind of thing to be a significant influence. If you wander Costco looking for things to buy you can walk out with quite a bill. I also enjoy cooking, and the samples tend to be premade frozen dinner items. So all this accounts for my opinion on it, I guess.
Genuinely curious about why leaving a cart in an aisle and walking off is considered a faux pas.
I typically leave my cart in a less congested aisle to go and get items in another aisle while leaving it butted up next to some items in a way that keeps the aisle free and allows people to get to whatever it’s parked next to.
How is this seen as an inconvenience?
The digging deep into a stack is likely an attempt to get a package of whatever that has a later expiration date. I see folks do that with milk all the time…
I’ve found that at my Costco, the front pallet of milk is usually a day or two fresher than the one behind it, probably because they know everyone grabs from the back.
Based on my observations, I don’t think it’s about that. I get the sense that it’s more likely some primitive, brain-stem thing that somehow something from the 5th layer is fresher or better. (I’ve watched customers dig for apples with this same behavior at conventional grocery stores.)
Most stores practice (or should practice) FIFO, or First In First Out. As long as the store is adhering to proper practices and the current product is not all from the same shipment, then yes it should be fresher the further back you go.
Well it is true that old stuff gets put on top or at the front but it’s ludicrous to think any of it stays around that long at costco.
I am guilty of this with the avocados though, after watching people toss bags they don’t want back on the pile as if they don’t bruise or something.
Can’t say I’ve ever noticed an avocado at Costco that was ripe enough to bruise.
Congrats. When everything takes longer to get to your stores by sea, things are different. Sometimes I have to avoid bags of avos that are already well past their prime.
And before anyone asks: yes, I live in Hawaii, where avos grow but are not always in season, or it’s a low yield season, or they’re expensive AF for some reason this time around, or it’s just more convenient to pick them up when I get everything else.
Cart stealing! I left my cart for thirty seconds by the clothing and it was gone. The Costco worker nearby said it happens every day. Apparently people don’t think they will need a cart, walk all the way to the back, realize they need a cart, and just grab one that someone else has walked away from. People are apparently too lazy to walk back to the front to get a cart.
I’ll put an item or two in the cart right off the bat, and people are less likely to take it. Eventually I’ll put the items back.
Standing right next to the food court POS systems, or right in front of the counter, just after getting their receipt.
The annoying behavior that bothers me most isn’t unique to Costco:
People not masking as if there isn’t a pandemic going on.
I only expect people to mask if they’re feeling unwell.
You are extremely naive about how COVID manifests and is transmitted.
Yeah, I still mask-up indoors in public places…
I’m all for people masking when necessary ….but it’s kind of over. Yeah new strain and all that…but…yeah. It’s over.
It really, really isn’t. There’s a whole new strain making hospitalizations tick up. Every reinfection increases the chance of Long COVID. Vaccination does not protect from reinfection.
Peak Lemmy response.
30 years from now
“tHeReS sTiLl A pAnDeMiC!!!”
Ok, but there is still a pandemic. It’s not a global emergency anymore, but COVID is not endemic yet. Even once it is, if you are feeling unwell you should stay home and if going out is absolutely required you should wear a mask. That’s just the responsible thing to do and a change in COVID status won’t change that.
I’m not going to judge anyone who still masks up. Everyone has their reasons but even in my area, where we were masking up long after the rest of country stopped, it’s rare to see someone masking except on public transport.
Ok? Does that change anything I said?
The parking lots. People drive like fucking lunatics, park like assholes, I’ve nearly been hit or had my spot stolen by someone who sees me about to turn and then darts in so many times.
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Every table in the food court being taken by individuals leaving no room for families.
💀
Back when I was a kid and I’d go to Costco with my family, if there were no tables we’d ask to share. If we get rejected, ask another. Never had issues finding seating. Even now my introverted ass will ask if I can take a spot at a table if there are none.
What the hell, I need to sit next to some rando and not at a free table because you feel special for having kids and might want to site there?
Peak main character syndrome.
