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While I agree with you that they should have had a warrant, it does jive because they are pretty strict about people buying in bulk from places and reselling it. I just looked at Costco's website and if you are going to buy their products to resale them, you have to get a business account and provide the appropriate resale information for tax/business purposes.

I don't see how that's relevant. Costco isn't required to keep a record of the names of everyone the sell to, and provide it to the IRS on damand. If you're buying from Costco for resale, it's your repsonsibility to do the paperwork and report it to the IRS. If you didn't do it, the IRS should be coming after you, not Costco.

Except that Costco and Sam's do require you to inform the cashier if you are purchasing it for resale purposes and you are required to provide the valid state tax information with your membership application. If they had no responsibility whatsoever, then they wouldn't be required to collect that information with your membership and they wouldn't require you to inform the cashier.

What we need is the name of the cannery and the types of federal agents and who they were representing. Right now we are faced either with the Alex Jones scenario of government control or some agency not getting the taxes they think they deserve and there is a pretty big difference between the two.

If I'm reselling goods and making a profit and not reporting it and somebody gets wind of it, they are going to be talking to places they think I did business with. That's why we need the name of the cannery and the types of federal agents and who they are representing.