I am one of those Costco shoppers. I buy all those bulk staples that a family needs. I usually end up buying things I don't need too, but that's the whole point of it right?
However I really do NOT like going to Costco. It's like people just leave their brains in their cars before they hike across the parking lot. Or Costco attracts hordes of folks who are missing common sense. I'm still not sure which yet.
I've tried going at many different days and times - thinking that I'll eventually find the 'sweet' spot. So while Tuesday morning at 10A might be a lot less crowded, it's the slow moving Grandma and Grandpa set paired with the small restaurant business owner. Not a good combo.
I am strategic in my shopping there. I NEVER go down the 'gauntlet' if I can help it. (i.e. the middle aisle where people just stop their carts willy nilly, completely blocking everyone and everything. Completely unaware, or purposely unaware of their surroundings. Drives me NUTS! My husband thinks I'm crazy when I scream at him 'no no!' 'not that way' if we go shopping together. But I have a STRATEGY! Apparently he needs a field briefing before we go in...
But what just gets me the most... is the free food sample days. People will LINE UP down an aisle, crowded around a hair net wearing woman screeching the attributes of whatever foodstuff she is hawking... and they WAIT! You're waiting for that tiny sliver of quesadilla? For that fruit juice sample? You desperately want to have that meat ball? That you'll wait in a LINE for it? It boggles my mind. Am I alone in this? You're so starving that you absolutely just HAVE to have that sample and will elbow a 4 year old out of the way for it? Okay....
So fess up - have you hovered around a hot plate next to the frozen foods aisle? You realize you can get a $1.50 hot dog after check out.. right?
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Girl ... In high school, my boyfriend and I would go on "dates" to Sam's Club, because I was the only one with a steady paycheck and I refused to pay for dinner every time. LOL :)
ReplyDeleteHowever, I avoid those free samples like the plague now! The servers with their dead eyes, droning in monoton about their wares, no matter if anyone is listening to them ... creepy! And I am embarassed for the people who are hovering greedily, waiting for her/him to finish "plating" the items to little paper cups. No thanks, Costco.