Yup. Isn't that what most "vintage" stuff is, something old that someone else threw out? That darn thing is heavy too. I wound up anchoring it to the wall.
I was a Costco member for 38 minutes today ( warning: very long)
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The best furniture is hand made from people pretending to be Amish with a nice store front in the suburbs.
So customers aren't allowed to have bad experiences? Doesn't sound like OP made a scene. He made one justifiable, passive aggressive comment "it's never ever OK to talk to people that way" and went to the counter to cancel his membership. Despite the fact I love Costco, if that'd been my first experience I might have reconsidered my choice as well. JMO.
You seem to have trouble at every turn. Why do you suppose bad things are always happening to you?
None of those things individually sounded particularly egregious to me. Maybe collectively it ruined his day but rules is rules.
Yeah.....there is probably more to the story.
My wife and I have never, ever, had anything but positive experiences at Costco.
Personally, I'd give it another chance. That 5 year old is going to need trail mix.You solved your own query.
I hope you obliged her with a long trip to pound town and cuddled afterwards.Still sounds easier than our King Bed project. Wife picked up two vintage front porch posts for a mere $300, then took me to an antique store to find a matching vintage, 5-panel door. I had to strip everything, sand, paint, seal, saw, blah blah blah...
Turned out well, though. Just bought a metal bed frame and attached it to the posts with 7/16 bolts.
Pretty sure the test food servers do not work at Costco because they claim they don't work there whenever I ask where a product is.
And what trouble am I having currently other than an issue with rude employees at Costco yesterday?
Oh, I absolutely agree. Perks to Costco:
Best prices around for:
- Olive Oil
- Blue Agave
- TP and Paper Towels
- Printer paper
- TVs
- Random things as you're walking around the store you didn't know you needed
- Did I mention the life-time warranty? I replaced an 11-year-old coffee pot that died for FREE!
- Favorite item: Pizza by the slice!!
Unless Iowa recently changed its law's, you do not need a membership to buy booze at Sams or Costco.
If it hasn't been pointed out already the sample people don't work for Costco. They are brought in by an outside company.
I was going to say the same thing. I asked a woman posted up in the chilled prepared foods area if they had chilled fresh pasta dough and she just shrugged her shoulders and said she had no idea as she did not work there.
I would add booze and wine, raw meat, milk, eggs, common fresh vegetables, soy sauce, seltzer water, peanut butter, mayonnaise. Well, everything.Oh, I absolutely agree. Perks to Costco:
Best prices around for:
I'd let Costco employees call me an a$$hole every time I checked out to maintain my membership.
- Olive Oil
- Blue Agave
- TP and Paper Towels
- Printer paper
- TVs
- Random things as you're walking around the store you didn't know you needed
- Did I mention the life-time warranty? I replaced an 11-year-old coffee pot that died for FREE!
- Favorite item: Pizza by the slice!!
I have in laws that own a suburban Amish furniture store. I know it is legit Amish because we ordered some chairs through him and we literally drove to Amish country and picked them up.
Those are legitimate gripes. In the 15+ years I've been going to the Costco near me, I've had a negative experience like that two times. It's either a really crappy store or you have rotten luck.
If we lived within 20 minutes I would have given it another chance. Living an hour and a half away made it a simple decision to just walk away from it. I agree that they have some really good prices in things we would have used daily. I had some vodka and joggers that were like $11 in the cart. Oh well. I would have continued, but the wife had enough when my son took it personal.Oh, I absolutely agree. Perks to Costco:
Best prices around for:
I'd let Costco employees call me an a$$hole every time I checked out to maintain my membership.
- Olive Oil
- Blue Agave
- TP and Paper Towels
- Printer paper
- TVs
- Random things as you're walking around the store you didn't know you needed
- Did I mention the life-time warranty? I replaced an 11-year-old coffee pot that died for FREE!
- Favorite item: Pizza by the slice!!
It was really interesting how many people were eating in afterwards. Every table full and people waiting.
Ya, I wouldn't drive 1.5 hours for Costco. I'm 5 min away, so I'm there weekly. I love their pizza so much, it was pretty common for that to be my Fathers Day lunch spot.
It is rotten luck. I have been to that same Costco many many times with nary an issue. Then again, I almost never take samples, and I am alone and not with a 5-year old. But, kids are there everywhere on the weekends. My only problem with kids there is when there parents don't have control of them and allow them to buzz around them like a bee around a hive. Kids just being kids, but more than once I almost ran one over with a cart after he dashed out into the main aisle/corridor from around the corner. But that isn't a costco thing, that is a parent thing.
I've had the hot dog but not the pizza. The hot dog seems the same as the kirkland brand hot dogs they sell in the chilled section. Good but I'm not sitting around in that picnic bench hell when I can just have one at home. Is the pizza the same pizza they sell as take and bake, or is it different?Ya, I wouldn't drive 1.5 hours for Costco. I'm 5 min away, so I'm there weekly. I love their pizza so much, it was pretty common for that to be my Fathers Day lunch spot.
Starting to think it was bad luck. The sample lady probably just had her ass chewed about kids touching samples and we were the lucky ones to come uo after that.
Cart loader probably cleans sample trash out all day and we were the straw that broke the camels back. Still no excuse for it, it was quite unfortunate. My son talked about how sorry he was for throwing it in the cart at bedtime still.
I always try to go during the magic hour which is 8:00 PM.
From what I'm told it's different and much better. I've never gotten the take-home one from inside the store.
I will swing by after work two or three times a week. It is on the way home, more or less, and that particular location is relatively quiet then. I avoid it on the weekends if I can.
Looks good enough to me!From what I'm told it's different and much better. I've never gotten the take-home one from inside the store.
There were kids all over hell. Lotta big families there yesterday. I can 100% understand some frustration by workers with kids running around like they were, but mine was 2 ft from me at all times, I know this because he played garbage man the entire time. Its funny you mention that because I almost planted a few kids that ran in front of me out of nowhere.
I get that we're all different and bothered by different things, but I'm not sure I would have given what was described a second thought, certainly not a story worth retelling, and definitely not going through the process of canceling membership while there.
To me, the worst part of Costco is the popularity. All the customers with massive carts, randomly stopping.
To me, the worst part of Costco is the popularity. All the customers with massive carts, randomly stopping.
I refuse to go on weekends. Nothing to do with kids but just too many people in general. It's like Christmas Eve shopping which is nightmarish for me.
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