That’s crazy. I wonder how many they’ve actually sold. I mean who needs all of those pieces?
When we visited our little Costco yesterday, we saw the signage about, effective today, your Costco card will be scanned and required for entrance. No more freeloaders entering or the nearby high school students on their lunch break entering without a card. Guests will be limited to two per card carrying member. At our Costco, you have to pass through the food court after checking out and that area gets pretty congested during the high school lunch break. Will the scanning improve my ‘experience’?
I don’t think it will improve your experience. In the short term, it will slow down entry. I wasn’t the only one using my visa card in lieu of a membership card. And no photo on the card so I had to pull out my drivers license. I was in a rush so I didn’t stop by the membership desk to get a photo ID.
But overall a move I support.
I never see a queue to get in, although I often see long lines at checkout. So I doubt this is really going to slow things down that much. (Ask me again after the holiday, though. 
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Same for me today at Costco: scanners on either side of the entrance, with an employee just outside the door advising people to get their cards out to scan. No problem getting in, but huge lines at the registers. I guess mid-day on Friday of a one-week school break is a bad time to hit Costco!
I scanned my Costco Visa card and it was accepted. It does have my picture on the back.
That is what I need to get
Eliminating freeloaders measurably improves Costco’s bottom line when freeloaders become members. As a sum, more than two-thirds of Costco’s net income is the total from membership fees. Bottom line is Costco operates on very thin margins.
I avoid the store Friday thru Monday. Too many weekenders and tailers from up north stocking up.
Only a dire emergency would make me go to Costco (or Walmart) on weekends, or any day right before or after a holiday. (Make that all of Thanksgiving week, and the second half of December.)
I think people buy them and split up the set between family and friends.
Never been to one, but does Costco not have an app with the option of scanning the items yourself, paying, and just showing your receipt and items purchased when you leave?
Bd that’s what Sam’s Club has and it’s pretty much eliminated any wait anywhere 
The ones near me have self checkout but not automatic scanning as you put items in your cart like the Sam‘s Club I visited in Missouri
our store has amarena fabbri cherries back in stock after a year absence.
Saw this today:
Just add water! Anyone want to become famous? eat three meals a day for 44 days. Has to be worth an invite to a tv show or two.
I will admit to having some Mountain House stuff stashed. From even before the pandemic. But individual meals, like for camping. No buckets. Their shelf life is longer than mine.
I think there are pouches inside the bucket, based on the bottom left of the label.
Except that I think some folks in the military may already be doing this…
I have to say my Costco (Boston MA area) is stocked up on Lunar New Year stuff. I did try these soup dumplings (Xiao long bao) and I liked them a lot. I went back and bought a few more bags since I know they will be gone once the New Year passes.
I saw these in Harlem, pretty good reviews online, looking forward to trying them.
