I visited Costco recently with Kim. Before we went into the store I asked her what we needed and she said, shredded cheese, uncooked tortillas and something else I don’t remember now. It’s all blur.
We entered the store and began pushing a huge shopping cart around the store, finding all sorts of things we needed that were not part of the original three items we came for including Boston Legal season 3, chicken nuggets shaped like dinosaurs, and special $18 eyed drops.
After a while, I started nudging Kim towards the check out but we still needed some AA batteries. So we walked over to the electronics section and looked around. No batteries. Just giant stacks of iPods and flash drives. We headed over to the office supplies section. I didn’t realize shavers and toothbrushes were part of office supplies but I could overlook this pairing if I could just locate the dang batteries!
We continued walking towards the rear of the store, past the books, chocolate display and Christmas serving dishes until I noticed the batteries on an end cap across from the tires. I tossed a 36 pack of AAs in the cart at a cost of just over twelve bucks. Mission accomplished.
Costco works for people who have a lot of time to spend shopping. Or those who enjoy going down every aisle. That how our 3 item shopping trip turned into a 30 item one. One thing always makes me laugh at the check out: We could have 20 small items coming down the conveyor belt, yet we’re always asked, “Would you like a box?”. Just once, I’m tempted to pass on the box and see how the many items I can stuff down my shirt and pants as I try to get by the receipt checker.
But for now, I need to rest from lugging that 48 pack of bottled water in and out of my trunk.
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Around here Costco means the Saturday lunch date. They are smart because they post those little sample tables sporadically through the store, too, so you walk past a lot of merchandise. We always meet up with long lost friends and relatives when we take our Costco run (Costco runs in our social circle) some of them are from out of town who would have snuck in and snuck out without giving us a call. The aisles are big enough you can stand and pass around the babies and have a good visit without too many glares from other shoppers. It’s kind of like small town stopping the cars in the middle of the road to chat through the open windows. I like that you can buy a computer in St. George, Utah, return it in Auburn, Wa., when has problems, and buy a new one in Portland Oregon.
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