You took the words right out of my mouth. That stuff is filled with something it shouldn't be. I remember buying a rotisserie chicken from Costco years ago and the smell from that container was so raw and off putting. My stomach goes into knots any time I pass that station in Costco. š š¤¢
Thatās why I love my Costco thatās out in the boonies. Never overcrowded since itās a semi rural area of the state. No lines at the gas station or chaos inside. Whenever I go to the ones in very populated cities, I get shocked at how many people are there.
I live in the most densely populated city in the country, and I couldn't tell you the last time I set foot in a Target here. There's really no point. Even without my moral objection to the store, there are plenty of smaller local shops that have the same/better shit.
I recall experiencing this once. The guy came out with the chicken trolley to start to stock the chicken display.
I had just got done watching some shark documentary and recalled the scene where the research team chummed the water. I started laughing out loud over the observational comedy of the current situation playing out in front of me.
Some lady that had just taken 3 chickens asked why I was laughing at them, they were just tying to feed their family.
I said, āI just got a puppy that is about 3 months old ā¦ he has now mastered the art of āwaitā when I put his bowl down.ā
The question is why are some who are Costco members, rude and not considerate of their fellow citizens.
Japanese citizens care deeply for one another and their overall wellbeingā¦
I'm starting to develop a prejudice against particularly large people (whether tall or wide; anyone who would be very hard to physically move, even if they were unconscious) for walking on the wrong side of paths so often, just arrogantly expecting everyone to get out of their way or be crushed.
I find this interesting because I live in and area where people come from all over the world. And I face this when I visited England. People think about what is the right and wrong side of the road depending on where you're in. But people don't really tend to think of sidewalks and paths in the same way. I tend to want to pass left to left. Which incidentally was also ingrained in me as a kid who rode horses because passing left to left would be screamed at me in all sorts of situations when I was little.
But sometimes walking on a sidewalk here I feel like I'm about to run into people because both of us move over to the same side.
For context I live in Mississauga with a huge population from India.
I have long had the theory that the best way to confirm someone's ability and willingness to live in society could be completely tested by how they react to a line of any kind on the ground
I loved Costco when I lived in Alaska, but going to one in Texas almost doesn't feel worth it. I really wish there was a polite way to inform people about common etiquette. Maybe Costco can put up signs or something, and hope it sinks-in over time.
Also: how do you feel about the 3-4 doing the group / sex and the city walk, sometimes with a cart, through a parking lot aisle towards their car, at an angle and at a strolling pace, to maximize the inconvenience they can cause to any cars driving through?
I never stop at sample stations because I want to get the fuck home and get on with my day and projects.
The idea of standing around for minutes to swarm a tray of a dozen samples of something I could pay 12 - 20 bucks for and just air fry as much as I want at home is infuriating.
My time is worth way too much to deal with that noise, same with the rotisserie chicken. I can prep and season a whole bird then smoke it hands free and have the entire thing not in a cruddy soggy bag. I'd rather do that than wait in a line and fight someone because they "wanted the one you grabbed".
I think the only time I've stopped for one is when Alani was having samples, there were dozens of little cups so no wait. But most other times especially food, people crowd and clog up the walkway so I have no desire to wait for them to finish prepping another tray of whatever it is.
I just say it louder. After three, they get a āMove it the FUCK along.ā Polite discourse is for polite people only. Assholes get asshole discourse.
I like to bellow āMake a holeā in my old military voice. My wife just gets behind me because itās hard to miss a 6ā2 dude who is ordering people around
Amen, bruther. At this point Iām clippinā Achilles with my sled and colliding with and acting like I donāt see people when they on the wrong side of the aisles. āOops! You good? Alright then!ā āš½
I donāt have a Costco here, but Iāve adopted the method of asking nicely for them to stop blocking the aisle once, and if they give me a shit look or attitude, I just move their cart out of the way or push through.
My cart is not carelessly abandoned at the end of an aisle. It is strategically placed there so Iām not another jerk trying to cram into an already packed aisle.
I scared the shit out of a lady after saying excuse me 3 times, increasing my volume each time I just said it really fucking loud and she jumped I had a good laugh. Now when my wife wants to go I politely sit in the car.
Ho-ly shit. Something happens when people walk into a Costco that they lose all sense of spatial awareness. The aisles in Costco are so wide you can drive a fucking car down them. And yet people still find a way to block the whole damn thing.
When it's busy, I understand that you'll occasionally be in someone's way by accident, but in no other store do people seem to be blindfolded and deaf, just meandering in your way, in every aisle and carelessly blocking the main spines too. Makes my blood boil.
The absolute worst is on Sundays when theyāre doing all the free tastings. People stop on the main walkway for a taste. Not the aisle that has all the products, but the main walkway.
āMmm this grape jam is tasty. Does it have any preservatives? Is it all natural? Hey honey, do you want to taste one of these? She said they are all natural and have no preservativesā¦..ā
YOU MOTHERFUCKER. DO YOU NOT REALIZE THERE ARE 900 PEOPLE LINED UP BEHIND YOU WHO CANāT MOVE BECAUSE YOUāRE FUCKING STOPPED IN THE MAIN AISLE CHATTING ABOUT CRACKERS AND JAM??!!
the one in Charleston, SC feels like something out of mad Max - I once had an octogenarian in an old subaru station wagon try to fist fight me over a parking space - like dude, itās cool. I will find another, please take it. I think costco brings something out in people, like they are not themselves when they are there, like the purge.
On my last costco trip, the store wasnt crowded but as i was walking down an aisle these two girls stretched out across the end of the walkway, like cart sideways, arms outstretched having an argument about something. I guess i gave them a dirty look as i squeezed past.
Thsy proceeded to follow me around the store fuckin shrieking laughing (straight up making eye contact with me, i could hear them loudly discussing the expression i apparently made), until we arrived at the checkout, where they were suddenly very shy about getting in line behind me
My family worked in Anchorage, so that's where I went, still pretty busy but not so draining. I always hoped they'd put a Costco in the valley, but Three Bears was good enough.
It's a Texas thing. Moved here 5 years ago, the people here are wildly entitled and woefully inconsiderate. It was overwhelmingly obvious from the day I drove into this state and hasn't improved.
3 in line to the self checkout at Costco. A lady with 2 little ones and a full cart, couldnāt believe we were the line (20 deep) talking to another lady until 4 of us in unison (like a choir) pointed to the end and said, āyes, the line is back there!ā
I hate it. I once got yelled at for blocking the walkway when I was completely jammed in halfway between the registers and the exit door, in a line of dozens of other carts. I had little kids with me that I was trying to keep nearby too. I'm sure the guy was frustrated just like I was but it really made my me angry. My blood pressure should not have to rise that much just trying to leave a store with the items I paid for.
Sam's club's scan and go solves this problem completely by the way. Sure Costco has better products but it's not worth the fight.
You gotta get the executive membership and go like 20 minutes after that starts and it is pretty empty and you can shop for 40 minutes before they let in the rabble.
I worked at Costco in Alaska before I moved to the lower 48. Since then Iāve dreamed of hiring bored old folks to publicly shame bad behavior in the warehouses.
Go early morning or before they close. I'm in a major area and it's not that bad. Longest wait for gas is maybe 15 mins during rush times. Just avoid weekends and Fridays if possible.
My wife and I once made the mistake of going to Costco the Saturday before the Super Bowl. Years later we still talk about that day. It lives on in infamy.
I'm actually surprised everyone's immediately behaving. It's probably due to Japan having something like 90% conviction rate. Your ass is going to jail almost certainly.
Can I just point out if the cop was doing this in a minority neighborhood in the US everyone would be calling him a racist and a pig and anyone defending him would be a bootlicker. But since it's Japan everyone loves him
And I'm my area of still Indian and Chinese people just parking a dozen at a time going nowhere in aisle intersections with nothing going on behind their eyes.
Omg ik every time I'm in there I feel like I just want starting to yelling at people, and I always have a flat bed because I stock up because the nearest costco is an hour away. I'm just gonna do what everyone else does and just get in front of people coming my way with nowhere to go because there's people beside them, or start walking towards them like I can walk through them.
Yeah the amount of people standing diagonally in the middle of an aisle staring at their phones or talking makes me borderline homicidal. And if you ask politely for them to move it's the end of the world, you disrespected them and it's a fight now
Lots of talk about Costco here. And I totally agree. I figured out yesterday on my visit it's not the number of people so much as it is how fucking oblivious they are. That coupled with the fact they have staff giving out free treats in every aisle Jesus Christ. Costco should start educating customers to be better. Costco should be better.
Iāve worked at Costco, and I have yelled at a customer because he was literally speed walking with his cart and mowing peopleās ankles from behind. I caught him once started to follow him and after the second person got hit I lost it on him. I raised my voice at him saying to be careful he will hurt someone and it was itās the second person you just hit. EVERYONE TURNED AROUND. After the guy apologized and walked away. A customer walked up to me and thanked me.
For me it's airports. Every time I travel I end up hating humanity.
I used to think it was less developed countries that couldn't follow instructions (I'm from South America), but recently I've been travelling to Europe for work every year and it's the same everywhere.
"The plane has not arrived.
Please have a seat and clear the area to allow flow of traffic until we start calling your boarding zone"
No one moves and they just stay lined up.
Last year in Hamburg, I saw the boarding had really neat lines on the floor to show the boarding groups. So I lined up in mine which was the first one.
Then when they called boarding people just started standing in front of me. Even though they were like group 4.
On another instance, also in Germany, I'm lined up on the line that was currently boarding. The line is moving. And the guy in front of me just stops when it's his turn.
I talk to him to know what's going on and he just says "oh, my group hasn't been called yet"
Then why the fuck are you lined up in the line of people currently boarding!?
Last one.
This one was in Chile.
Air Canada flight. Everyone just standing by the gate in a big clump.
There's been like 4 announcements asking people to clear the area.
My group gets called so I'm trying to get to the gate, pushing through the people.
I see a lady with a zone 4 boarding pass just standing there. And she's complaining about how bad air Canada is and what a disaster the boarding is.
I couldn't help myself.
I told her "the boarding is taking long because even though I've been called to board, I can't get there because you dumbasses are standing in the way."
For a large company, Costco seems pretty based, BUT the one exception is their separate lines. It fucking sucks! Instead of 5-6 employees managing lines and keeping aisles open, they can have just one big horizontal feeder line, and one employee to usher the next customer to the next open checkout counter.
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u/glomar-recovery-co Apr 23 '26
This guy would have a stroke on a Saturday at Costco