Ahh - you must live in a city. I have to go 25 miles one way to get to something, and 44 one way to get to a Sam's Club so I'm not able to bike that, nor would I want to in the weather around here.
I get that. Last time they changed my oil and air filter it was $175. I dropped my insurance except for the required liability.
I would starve if the grocery store was more than a 10 minute walk from my house. We end up going there 5 or 6 times a week.
Do you take appointments? I'll drop it off while I pick up some Tamales from Los Hernández.
Wow…..Do you have to show your offering plate receipt before purchasing your booze on Sunday afternoons?
Kurt
Definitely cheaper. Folks are now selling their houses (not paying maintenance, taxes, insurance or utilities) and living in 20 year old motor homes in Walmart parking lots. They are saving a lot of money….
Brings to mind this old thread:Do you have to show your offering plate receipt before purchasing your booze on Sunday afternoons?
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They intentionally don't have hand scanners because there is much more theft with these. Allowing customers to scan their own baskets without removing items to the holding area leads to more "missed" scans. "Oh, I must have missed that one." To make customers take everything out and then replace reduced significantly the shrinkage, as they are less apt to place it from the cart to the holding area.
They have inventory control at the exit.
I think that you mean 30 QUARTS (not gallons) of oil. I have never had a vehicle require more than 6 quarts per change. What are you driving? Over-the-road Peterbuilt diesels?
The main thing they do is put the highlighter mark on the receipt. That's to keep someone from reentering the store, loading the cart with the same items, then presenting the receipt as proof of purchase.
Correct, but that does not change what I posted. Self hand scanning is the highest theft/shrink rate of all methods of checkout. If you have a huge basket of items, with small items piled at the bottom, not making the customer remove all items them put them back after paying leads to a lot of non-scanned items.
Yes, it pays to purchase older vehicles.
Like any other store, Costco can be more money than another store but there are also some great deals at Costco. If you used those items membership is worth it. For example their Light Jarlsberg Cheese, Nitrate Free Canadian Bacon and Gluten free pizza items are way less in price than any other store.
Yea, it can be a pain getting things going when you don't drive them all the time, but OTOH when you've got one vehicle in the shop having a spare saves a lot on renting a car and I don't need to pay for car rental insurance in my car insurance.
I think Sam's scan and go must also help with this - there's no physical receipt, there is a QR code the exit checker scans, and then they scan 3 or so random items in the cart. Usually the higher value items. If the item scanned wasn't in the app checkout, you get sent over to customer service to fix the issue. And you can't get the same QR code again, once it's scanned it goes away from the app, and even if you screenshotted it, the scanner would see it was already "redeemed".
Not Costco but heard there is a Home Depot at 500 S Santa Fe Dr, Denver, CO where they have the isles secured dt theft problems. Sad times.
Most stores, maybe all of them, refund back to the original form of payment and they don’t even need the physical credit card to do it. I pay everything with a credit card and I would guess that is by far the most common payment method. You give me hope that someday I might find a free credit on my statement.