With Costco, there really isn't any discussion. Either you abide by their rules, or they kick you out of the club.

Personally, I had an issue with Costco when they would staff this location with one person. One person has no way in hell of actually checking the receipt carefully and matching it with the items purchased. So, after waiting in line for 15 minutes to check out, you get the additional privilege of waiting in line for another 5 minutes to leave the store.

This is ridiculous as far as I'm concerned. The don't have sufficient staff to man the checkout registers and they compound the problem by having additional issues with staff at the departure from the store.

I will say that they have corrected their departure issue by utilizing two people who do a half-assed job. NFW they could possibly verify accurately in the 10 seconds that they are given.

But, the point with Costco is moot anyway, as mentioned above.

I fail to see the difficulty.

The store is making the assumption that you are stealing merchandise and wants to see your receipt to prove to them that you are not.

There is just no other way to reconcile their need to look at every single receipt for every shopper who leaves the store.

If they had a reasonable suspicion that you failed to pay and requested to see a receipt for a specific case, this is a completely different situation. The generic assumption of guilty until proven innocent is not present.

I'm glad I don't go through life bending over and taking it every time a business or organization decides to be a prick toward their customers.

They are not assuming dishonesty on my part. They don't know me. They are assuming, correctly, that some customers are dishonest. Is there something about the way you carry yourself that you believe conveys your integrity to the stranger checking receipts?

At any rate, what you said there contradicts this:Why are not offended that they assume that you have someone else's checkbook?That would embarrass the heck out of me if I was the one responsible for checking receipts and someone did that to me.

Do you believe that you know more about running that type of store than Costco does?

Why? You're not responsible for others' actions, only for your own.

By checking every single receipt, they absolutely assume dishonesty until proven otherwise. Giving them the benefit of the doubt and allowing them off the hook is your prerogative.

After some thought, you're right about that. They make the assumption that I'm dishonest and have a checkbook that is not my own. Therefore, I will never use a check again in such an establishment.


I really cannot see why you would be embarrassed. It's not like I went and stripped you naked in front of all the customers. I simply declined to show my receipt. Is the employee embarrassed because he is deemed insignificant?

Bizarre

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It is ridiculous from a customer perspective. The management fails to provide sufficient staff at two discrete locations, in series, delaying their own customers for their own profit.

In answer to your question, I'm quite sure I could find a better way to prevent theft than to rely on a single (or possibly two) individuals who cannot possibly do the job that Costco wants them to do in the time allotted.

That sound a LOT like the "Good Germans" talking about Hitler's SD and SS "employees", at least to me it does...

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That's a poor comparison. The perform a task..........they don't kill people.

I'm not sure you are correct. Isn't necrophilia about sexual attraction to corpses? Perhaps you meant necromancy, part of which is raising the dead?

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That sound a LOT like the "Good Germans" talking about Hitler's SD and SS "employees", at least to me it does...

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You missed the point.

Which is about blind obedience to ANY rules or dicta, so as to NOT make waves or question authority.

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I would

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Reading this is sorta' funny in a sad way...here's why...

I get "slipped" when I'm leaving the SAM'S CLUB in La Crosse and the one in Eau Claire.

I looked at the "out" doors and I understood why.

There are sooooo manyyyyyy areas where someone could walk around the checkout counters without raising the suspicions of others...

In La Crosse, they have the "food area" just south of the exit doors...while you're shopping, you can bring your cart with your goodies, checked out or not, right up to that area, buy your pie-hole fillers, scarf 'em down and head for the door right along with the folks leaving the checkout isles.

No "slip checkers" - no problem leaving with ill-gotten gains.

Then there are the folks that come in the 'out' door and those that leave via the 'in' doors.

Convenience and confusion...in two places at once.

Unless everyone hired in the place has their head on a swivel, the place is just screaming for a raping.

So, unless you are just jumping at the slightest chance to perform your best Peter Finch version of Howard Beale, take a "chill pill" and THEN go up to the store's version of management and let them know that MAYBE two or more folks, that are capable of performing rudimentary mathematical functions and are also capable of visual associative comparisons between written quantities and actual cartage quantities, should be assigned to help move the folks along their merry way.

Either that, or blow up and be the center of unintended and unwanted attention.

At the least, you'll have a reason, fresh in your mind, why the kids point at you and say "There goes that store nutcase that the cops had to taser and mace the other day!"

Me?

I'm carrying a Pez-dispenser's worth of "chill pills" for just that kind of moment...I KNOW when and where I'm going to blow.

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My wife recently retired after 25 years with Costco...she started off with PriceClub, then Costco bought them out. She's held every position short of warehouse manager during her tenure there.

Anyway, the people that check the receipts are well trained to check in a timely manner with 98% accuracy. Her last 4 years with the company was that as a greeter/checker...it's part of the loss prevention department.

Cashiers aren't paid to be accurate 100% of the time, due to the sheer volume of business they do, that is where the checkers come in to play. They are the store's last defense against losing profits. All too often, items are on the bottom of the cart where the cashier can't see it. People have taken items into the food court and waited for their partners to arrive with a cart full of paid for items. They'll unload the lifted items into the cart, then try to push the whole cart out of the store...it's happened many times, and caught nearly as many.

You'd be surprised at how many times in the past they had to refund money to members who were inadvertently charged for the wrong quantity of an item...it happens.

Costco wants to keep their prices low, and members pay for the discounts by a little bit of a wait.

Costco doesn't refund membership fees when a customer decides to be a prick...the management tears the card/s up in front of the now former member, and puts a block in the computer from allowing them to be a member again for a year or more.

My wife has been verbally assaulted by members like those posting in this thread just because she was doing her job. Management has never batted an eye when she would radio for management to intervene...most of the time they take custody of the member's card and kick them out. I've witnessed it happen on a number of occasions while waiting on my wife to take her lunch break, or at the end of her shift.

Here's the long and short of it...if you don't like the way Costco does business, and aren't a stock holder, then don't pay for the membership and don't go back. It's really that simple.

I've been a member for 9 years and like how they do things...it keeps my prices low. I'll continue to shop there for many years to come.

Oh, and since my lovely wife retired after 25 years, we no longer have to pay for the Executive Membership, we have it for life now at no cost to her.

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