Bad news if you’re mooching off of someone else’s Costco membership: The retail giant is cracking down.
When you enter Costco, you need to show your membership card to an employee to shop. Costco membership cards are non-transferable, but the company allows members to give a second household card to one other person in their home. Anyone with a card can bring up to two guests to the club during each visit, the company stipulates.
But Costco has noticed that non-members have been sneaking in with membership cards that don’t belong to them — particularly since Costco expanded self-checkout.
Costco recently started asking for shoppers’ membership cards along with a photo ID at the self-checkout registers, the same policy as regular checkout lanes, to crack down. “We don’t feel it’s right that non-members receive the same benefits and pricing as our members,” Costco said in announcing the change.
And now, Costco is testing out a system that requires members to scan their membership cards at the store entrance — instead of just flashing the card to employees. Shoppers have spotted the new scanners at a store in Washington State and posted photos on Reddit.
The free shipping on the Sam’s plus destroys the Costco mail order services.
But then you have to shop from Sam’s. People choose Costco over Sam’s for many reasons…
Our local Sam’s is disgusting. I was considering joining a while back during a $10 membership sale.
Everything was a mess, the employees all looked like they wanted to kill themselves, and the was a literal pile of human shit in the middle of the bathroom floor - not even in a stall or near a toilet - just a big ol dookie right in the middle of the bathroom.
Did not join. Wasn’t even worth $10 to me.
Fuck yea Sam’s club unite! You’re being downvoted because this thread is an advertisement.
I mean I have both Costco and Sam’s memberships both have pluses and minuses
The clothes at Costco are amazing at times Sam’s has better paper products imo (TP, Kleenex)
Costco has a better food court
Costco parking designs are maddening, everyone I’ve been to have this diagonal entrance that is awful.
I think the Costco frozen section is a bit better than Sam’s.
Cat litter is way way cheaper st Costco
I’ve gotten $500 airfare gift cards for $429. Which is like getting free $ when you need to fly anyways.
Sam’s bulk candy isle is superior.
I think the Costco pharmacy has better pricing but no drive thru and it can be extremely slow.
I keep both memberships but I recently moved away from my Sam’s so it kinda out of the way, but with the plus membership I can usually get staple items delivered for free, something Costco doesn’t really do.
I guess we’ll see if I keep them both next year.
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