See the thread on the cult page itself: Costco Canada.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CostcoCanada/comments/1nb7aj1/are_you_still_buying_canadian_at_costco/
People are dropping their Costco memberships, and slowly weaning their shopping habits away from the American Bank owned: Costco. This is still the minority viewpoint as seen in the comments. But our education campaigns are slowly shifting the tides!
Remember, Costco is an American cult.
The same herd mentality that brought sheep into Costco’s doors will bring them out, and onto a Canadian run option.
Costco has no direct Canadian wholesale competitor, yet.
But I have a sense that’s going to change very soon. Costco is absolutely ripe for Canadian disruption. Go Leafs!
American here: Costco’s food court is amazing, but the shopping experience is absolutely terrible. For such a ‘great’ company, they only manage to staff less than half the registers as lines form throughout the store.
It is not because they cant find anyone to work there, it’s just they want to save as much money as they can by overloading their employees with work/metrics.
Usually about half the checkouts are there for holiday rushes, like Easter.
Costco has the unique problem that more tills open get bottlenecked at the receipt check, and you can’t let the checkout lane exits get blocked or your inner lanes stop moving.
And I swear every fucking time I go the store layout is just a little bit different. Assume it’s intentional to get you to wander a bit but it’s annoying as hell
That is 100% intentional.
It’s a tactic to expose you to more products and increases cart sizes.
I’m sure but damn it backfires. Piss me off and I am going to minimize my interaction or kill it entirely if if I can.
It is definitely annoying
Costco the company is amazing (the fact that it is US based notwithstanding), but the people who shop there (at least where I am, western US) are the worst. It’s like Disneyland for boomers who vote Republican.
Even with most of the 15 checkouts and 6 self-checkouts open, the downtown (transit-accessible!) Vancouver Costco has lines nearly all the time.