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They got rid of the self checkouts at mine. I used them a lot but there were always problems (stuff not scanning, coupons not ringing up correctly when they did coupons) so I think it's for the better. The checkout people are true professionals who know how to get poo poo done quickly. PBUC ~ Ketchup Apostate~
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Yesterday after my shopping trip I went to get an iced tea from the machine near the doors and there was a dude restocking the one next to it. After I made my selection , the dude goes NO NO NO and I was ready to start dialing 9-1 on my phone when he said, "those aren't cold! I just put em in there! You gotta look for the frost on the bottles!" My dude opened the machine and put my drink back, and grabbed me a cold one. PBUC.
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Jul 26, 2017 12:53
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A lost sheep... is never lost for long.
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Jul 26, 2017 15:41
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Costco carries Palmetto pimento cheese. It's pretty great man. Also when you're there you can get a hot dog and a drink (with free refills) for $1.50!
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Jul 26, 2017 15:49
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My Costco vacation was dope and trouble free, friends I don't recommend Miami Beach, as the only nice thing about it was the actual beach. I also discovered why there aren't any successful Cuban food restaurants. Go to an island in the Caribbean, instead. Key West is nice, though.
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Jul 26, 2017 16:35
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ElGroucho posted:My Costco vacation was dope and trouble free, friends If stco were to unveil a bunch of stores as competitors to 7/11 or trader joes I would be immensely happy. Imagine it, popping in at the corner for some $1.50 dogs and a drink and then going mad on that Kirkland snack food. Please Costco, don't fail us.
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Jul 26, 2017 17:58
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The Sicilian posted:If stco were to unveil a bunch of stores as competitors to 7/11 or trader joes I would be immensely happy. Imagine it, popping in at the corner for some $1.50 dogs and a drink and then going mad on that Kirkland snack food. Please Costco, don't fail us. Like some sort of Costco Mission. Spreading the good word from place to place. PBUC.
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Jul 26, 2017 18:09
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 I saw this little number in Parramatta today, they were out of them though.
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Jul 26, 2017 18:26
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Detective No. 27 posted:Like some sort of Costco Mission. Spreading the good word from place to place. PBUC. it prolly wouldn't work, the dogs are designed to be a loss leader dunno if a membership-based convenience store would work, because a lot of convenience store business is... just one-offs tj's, definitely possibility they could cream tj's supply chain, those guys literally operate out of like 3 warehouses or something
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Jul 26, 2017 19:17
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curufinor posted:it prolly wouldn't work, the dogs are designed to be a loss leader Costco says it doesn't lose money on the dogs. They just don't make any money on them.
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Jul 26, 2017 19:23
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I would skip the infrastructure and partner with some existing retailer to get those Kirkland shits in a non-Costco store. But you know whatd go a long way would be setting up one of those things that Walmart has where you can pre-order all your groceries online and show up just to grab a box.
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flashy_mcflash posted:I would skip the infrastructure and partner with some existing retailer to get those Kirkland shits in a non-Costco store. But you know whatd go a long way would be setting up one of those things that Walmart has where you can pre-order all your groceries online and show up just to grab a box. Costco puts the most popular stuff(dairy, chickens, etc) in the back of the store so that people will browse and purchase much more than expected. Offering pre-order removes most of what makes Costco work.
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Jul 26, 2017 19:27
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Aww man they rotated the men's 32 Below stretchy men's shirts. For what? Kirkland White Cotton crew shirts. Sad!
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Jul 26, 2017 19:32
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You gotta snatch all that good poo poo while it's still hot!
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Jul 26, 2017 19:34
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Dely Apple posted:Aww man they rotated the men's 32 Below stretchy men's shirts. For what? Kirkland White Cotton crew shirts. Sad! I bought like 7 packs of those 32 cool shirts. They are great for wearing underneath my Kirkland polos 
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Jul 26, 2017 23:01
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curufinor posted:it prolly wouldn't work, the dogs are designed to be a loss leader I have a 24 hour Walgreens by me that I frequent all the time. I think amazon is doing something like you need a membership to enter and are charged for items on way out. This could help with shrink and allow for way less lines.
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Jul 26, 2017 23:54
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Peachfart posted:Costco puts the most popular stuff(dairy, chickens, etc) in the back of the store so that people will browse and purchase much more than expected. Offering pre-order removes most of what makes Costco work. People always say this about grocery stores but I don't know if it's true. Prepared foods: obviously your prep area is going to be in the back/side of the store. Dairy: people have to go in there and stock it, so again, it has to go in the back.
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Jul 26, 2017 23:58
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Harald posted:People always say this about grocery stores but I don't know if it's true. Prepared foods: obviously your prep area is going to be in the back/side of the store. Dairy: people have to go in there and stock it, so again, it has to go in the back. You'll almost always find dairy and produce on opposite sides of a store so people getting common items have to walk through the majority of the store to get them
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Jul 27, 2017 01:31
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Spoondick posted:You'll almost always find dairy and produce on opposite sides of a store so people getting common items have to walk through the majority of the store to get them both those items need to be kept cold, so it makes sense to put them at the side of the store. After you account for the front of the store which is taken up by the entrance and checkout, there's really only 3 sides to put those kind of things at.
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Jul 27, 2017 01:34
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if i run into my local safeway to grab some apples and yogurt, i gotta truck it 16 isles when there's 2 isles of stand-alone coolers for cold beverage next to produce instead of yogurt... it's not on accident, even if you're single-mindedly chasing down a couple thinks a trek through the store is an opportunity for the store to impress consumers with brand options, pricing, messaging, etc for future purchases
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Jul 27, 2017 01:47
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Check this out, Safeway doesn’t design their stores around your predilections for apples and yoghurt, they design them around how they can take deliveries and keep stock most efficiently. The notion that grocery stores are playing a 3rd dimensional chess game is consumer narcissism. No more, no less. It’s Ahab screaming at a mindless animal.
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Jul 27, 2017 01:53
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Harald posted:Check this out, Safeway doesn’t design their stores around your predilections for apples and yoghurt, they design them around how they can take deliveries and keep stock most efficiently. The notion that grocery stores are playing a 3rd dimensional chess game is consumer narcissism. No more, no less. It’s Ahab screaming at a mindless animal. Walgreens puts their pharmacies at the opposite end of the door, so when you're in there to pick up your one rx you gotta walk past all their overpriced Chinese garbage. Just lol if you don't think retailers purposefully set up their stores to sell more crap, their business being to sell crap.
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Jul 27, 2017 03:13
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Picked up my Costco membership today and wandered around the store. Bought enough toilet paper to last at least a year. Also scored some of those Kirkland dark chocolate toasted coconut cashews mentioned upthread!
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Jul 27, 2017 03:33
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JewKiller 3000 posted:Picked up my Costco membership today and wandered around the store. Bought enough toilet paper to last at least a year. Also scored some of those Kirkland dark chocolate toasted coconut cashews mentioned upthread! I hope you also stopped by the pharmacy to get some diabetes blood sugar test strips
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Jul 27, 2017 03:35
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Gravitee posted:The checkout people are true professionals who know how to get poo poo done quickly. I experienced this at my first Costco visit today. One person flipped over most of the items in my cart to expose their barcodes, while another manning the register scanned some more fragile items like strawberries. Then the register person used a scanner gun to hit the entire cart in like 2 seconds. The whole transaction was done in 30. It was magical.
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JewKiller 3000 posted:I experienced this at my first Costco visit today. One person flipped over most of the items in my cart to expose their barcodes, while another manning the register scanned some more fragile items like strawberries. Then the register person used a scanner gun to hit the entire cart in like 2 seconds. The whole transaction was done in 30. It was magical. The thing I always notice at Costco is that the employees are happy. Not that fake lovely 'everyone smiles in a creepy way' happy, but they always talk to me and act as if they give a poo poo.
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Jul 27, 2017 06:35
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God bless Costcommunism
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Jul 27, 2017 06:37
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Peachfart posted:The thing I always notice at Costco is that the employees are happy. Not that fake lovely 'everyone smiles in a creepy way' happy, but they always talk to me and act as if they give a poo poo. honestly kind of varies by costco. my old hometown costco was great as are several other smaller sized city ones I've been to. The one I go to now near richmond has pretty awful employees except a couple. I can see why they have jaded retail-death attitudes still since COL is super high so costcos wages kind of lose out locally, and the store is insanely loving busy all the time.
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Jul 27, 2017 06:38
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Xaris posted:honestly kind of varies by costco. my old hometown costco was great as are several other smaller sized city ones I've been to. The one I go to now near richmond has pretty awful employees except a couple. I can see why they have jaded retail-death attitudes still since COL is super high so costcos wages kind of lose out locally, and the store is insanely loving busy all the time. It really does vary, there's two Costcos near me, a closer one that's a loving Fury Road war zone where the employees are obviously just trying to survive day to day, and the other chill-zone Costco about 20 minutes away where everybody's way happier/less rushed.
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Jul 27, 2017 07:20
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Mine must be a Mad Max Costco. It really doesn't even seem that busy compared to some of the ones I've seen described here, but it is the busier of the two that are local to me, and the employees aren't really any more pleasant than anyone working at a normal grocery store or Walmart.
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Jul 27, 2017 17:12
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Costco would be better without the sample people. They aren't real Costco employees (which makes them trash) and their presence just encourages fatty fats to block up the aisles and make it into a Mad Max Costco. There's no need for samples, almost everything at Costco is good and if it isn't they will give you a full refund and listen to your feedback. gently caress the sample people.
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Tato posted:Costco would be better without the sample people. They aren't real Costco employees (which makes them trash) and their presence just encourages fatty fats to block up the aisles and make it into a Mad Max Costco. There's no need for samples, almost everything at Costco is good and if it isn't they will give you a full refund and listen to your feedback. gently caress the sample people. I am all for the samples. Please let me try a bite before I buy a 10lb bag of something that I may or may not like. Many spur of the moment purchases were made after sampling a product. Also, the free samples are almost as iconic as the dogs.
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I'm trying to think of any product I've bought based on a sample. Oh actually there was one time I was high at Costco and this dude was going "Fresh and Pure, Fresh and Purrrre" and he was sampling pineapple juice and you can bet your rear end that I bought six litres of pineapple juice that day out of sheer terror. Good juice though and I was never able to find that brand again (the brand was called Fresh and Pure). Anyway that's my sample story pbuc
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Jul 28, 2017 02:05
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I picked up some chicken coconut curry from a sample. It was good stuff, it just needed a small pepper addition for heat.
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Jul 28, 2017 02:26
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Costco is indeed, good.
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2 days in a row I walked a short 5 minutes from my place of employment to Costco and bought myself a $1.50 1/4 lb 100% beef hot dog with drink plus refill. Topped with the finest relish, deli mustard, onions and sauer kraut Costco can offer.
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Jul 28, 2017 02:31
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Suggesting that Costco get rid of free samples is like suggesting that mr rogers get rid of the sweaters that his mom knit Aka, 
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Jul 28, 2017 02:33
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kazr posted:Costco is indeed, good. 
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Jul 28, 2017 04:23
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Does Costco still sell everything in bulk?
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Does Costco still sell everything in bulk? Bulk is a strong word, and the stuff not sold large is strange to see sometimes.
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