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Except you don't have to be a member to eat at Costco.
You have to be a member, or accompanying a member, to walk in the door. The hot dogs lie beyond the checkpoint.
It is not unlike Prime Video and Prime Music (among others). When you run a membership program you create offers that increase the perceived value of the membership and engagement with your ecosystem. Similar is Costco gas, people wouldn’t drive out of their way for the discount if they didn’t already pay the membership. And while you are there you might as well pick up four times the bread you need, more milk than y…
I don't. Nor does anyone else I know.
It's just consumption moved around in time.
I know, I know, it may be aesthetically distasteful to you to see people walking out with 36 rolls of toilet paper instead of six. It may be hard not to sneer at the poor people trapped on the capitalist treadmill.
But you should get over it, because in most ways you're better off when people shop at CostCo, because buying that way and storing things at home for a time is much more packaging and environmentally efficient that packing things into little bundles to be bought every day. And buying like that also minimizes the little bites being taken out by middlemen who are doing the packaging into little bundles. And a car trip taken to CostCo that fills the car is more efficient than lots of little trips to the grocery store.
It is not unlike Prime Video and Prime Music (among others). When you run a membership program you create offers that increase the perceived value of the membership and engagement with your ecosystem. Similar is Costco gas, people wouldn’t drive out of their way for the discount if they didn’t already pay the membership. And while you are there you might as well pick up four times the bread you need, more milk than y…
Except you don't have to be a member to eat at Costco.
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Your cynicism is misplaced. CostCo may be a large money-making company, but they really seem to be "one of the good guys." They take care of their employees and are a well-liked consumer brand.
I think your lack of cynicism is misguided. CostCo doesn't "care" about anything but its bottom line, like any other corporation.
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Except you don't have to be a member to eat at Costco.
You have to be a member, or accompanying a member, to walk in the door. The hot dogs lie beyond the checkpoint.
And, at the ones where the food vending is on the inside, it's on the "paid" side of the cash registers. You can get to this area just by claiming you're "going to member services", since that's also on that side, and it's where you go when you forget your card (and so can't show membership at the checkpoint).
Source: Have forgotten my card a lot.
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Except you don't have to be a member to eat at Costco.
You have to be a member, or accompanying a member, to walk in the door. The hot dogs lie beyond the checkpoint.
The food court I'm not as sure about, but in both cases I've walked into a Costco with no membership and they were fine with it.
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You have to be a member, or accompanying a member, to walk in the door. The hot dogs lie beyond the checkpoint.
The membership checkers are there to give members the feeling of exclusivity and belonging. They do not generally turn people away and will accept basically any reason from "meeting someone" to no response at all, in my experience. But I haven't been to more than half dozen Costco's, so can't speak broadly.
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Except you don't have to be a member to eat at Costco.
While true I don't think this is widely known, and even less widely practiced. For those who are unaware, you just need go in through the exit to avoid the card checkers and that's where the food is.
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Except you don't have to be a member to eat at Costco.
You have to be a member, or accompanying a member, to walk in the door. The hot dogs lie beyond the checkpoint.
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You have to be a member, or accompanying a member, to walk in the door. The hot dogs lie beyond the checkpoint.
Almost every Costco I've been to, the food vending is a window on the outside of the building (so before the checkpoint). And, at the ones where the food vending is on the inside, it's on the "paid" side of the cash registers. You can get to this area just by claiming you're "going to member services", since that's also on that side, and it's where you go when you forget your card (and so can't show membership at the…
I've never seen a Costco with the food vending in a window on the outside of the building. I've always seen it against the wall after the checkout. Which is also after the checkpoint.
I think a window on the outside of the building only works in moderate climates. I don't see it working in Phoenix or Minneapolis.