I’ve been working at home for three weeks. We’re on 32 acres in the sticks with lots to do on our property so it’s been no big deal. But I decided yesterday we needed to do another costco run, so we did.
It was exactly the same as any other costco run. In fact, the crowd was the same size as normal (the number of customers in the Louisville stores here is MUCH smaller than in the Seattle stores and, especially, our closest store when we lived there - Tukwilla).
However, there were minor differences:
1. there was a thin, clear plastic shield between me and the cashier.
2. they didn’t touch the card. They scanned it through the plastic.
3. At the liquor store section, they just had me take my own receipt from the cash register and they never touched the bottles. I put them on the counter, they scanned them with a hand scanner, and I took them off.
4. They created a pathway from the main lobby entrance to the store entrance so people had to come in through a single file pathway.
5. No free samples.
I think Costco will never bring back free samples and was probably looking for a way to eliminate that nonsense. This was a godsend to them for that. And the plastic may stay. But honestly, it was really just like any other trip.
The only change this thing has had to my life is that I avoid a 150 mile 3 hour daily commute. I’m good with that.
Which Costco, East or Central?
We’ve been avoiding ours (Central) because of bottleneck fears.
I just heard where Costco is going to limit it to two people per family. I’m in the Seattle area. It will be SO nice to shop without the Chinese family with grandma and grandpa and 5 kids clogging up the aisle at the tasting stand and spitting out their avocado dip into the garbage can.
Normally he takes me to Fort Campbell, Ky to the Commissary, but now he can not go with me in the store as he has no ID, other than his drivers license. He could get an Assistance Card, but he doesn't want to wait in line. (He's very impatient.
I wish Costco and Sam's would both stop the sampling. All they do is cause major traffic jams in the food section. I don't think most of the samplees ever buy the stuff they are sampling. They just want free food.