Between that and store pickup, 100% yes. Sam’s is nowhere near as good as Costco on so many levels, but when I do need to shop there (to get things Costco doesn’t carry) the Scan and Go saves a ton of time and so does pickup.

I love self checkout. I do think they should give you 1% off for self checkout. I don’t need to wait in line while someone feels the need to make fake small talk to a customer they don’t know, slowing it down for everyone.

So, I actually get this one. “I’m sorry you feel that way” reads as “I’m sorry that your feelings are wrong”.

I love Costco products and its employees but they refuses to get with the times and that’s why I shop almost exclusively at Sams for warehouse style purchases.

You don’t need this. Put your Zoom/Teams/Meet/FaceTime/whatever app on one half of your screen, and put your Notes/OneNote/Evernote/whatever on the other half. I do this all day—every day—and it works well.

Except is not a myriad of possible reasons, its usually just one. You can’t ever admit when you were in the wrong to treated someone wrong. If you have to apologize for how you made someone feel but not what you actually did....that is pretty rare truth be told.

I think many times, it’s better to say “I didn’t mean to upset you” or “It wasn’t my intention to make you feel that way”. 

The only reason for me is geographical, the nearest Costco is 100 miles away and I can see Sams Club from my office window.

I said it on my husband’s mother after she crossed one boundary too many regarding children, boo-hooing that everyone else had grandkids but her and she felt left out. I’m sorry she feels that way, but she has a daughter and it’s not her decision.

I don’t think that actually works with language, because how we deliver language drastically changes/shapes its meaning.

I actually have both memberships (Costco and Sam’s Club) and find I use them for different purposes. From the Sam’s Clubs I’ve been to, they definitely seem geared more towards the grocery and daily necessities with homegoods added on. Costco seems to be the inverse. So for me:

Sam’s is 10 minutes from work and home (halfway in between), while Costco is 45 minutes away in another state. Easy decision for me.

But as soon as you get muscle memory of the process they update the software or change a module and it’s like your starting all over fumbling around.

It would help if packaging always put the UPC on all six sides of the box or opposite sides of round items. And fruit/vegetable displays should have a sign that shows what code needs to be entered for the fruit/vegetable at check out. I know they put a tiny label on the fruit, but it’s better to be told ahead of time…

I love curb side pickup.

Besides the germs I’ve always just been stressed out grocery shopping- so shopping from home and picking up the items for no fee has been great. I’ll go on a Sunday morning and won’t even need to deal with any traffic on the roads. Also I’m less likely to make impulse buys. It makes cross…

Curbside Pickup = More pupper ride-alongs
I hope it never goes away!! Not only is it super convenient, but he enjoys the car rides, and people love to meet him. Since he rides in the back seat I simply have to put the window down so he can stick his head out & he has a new friend. :)  He’s brought a lot of smiles to a…

When are reusable bags on the belts? I’ve always either just handed them to the cashier at the end or else just bagged my own groceries post-scanning. And even if someone does set them on the belt, are the outsides really so dirty that you can’t handle it? Dirtier than every box and can that’s been sitting in the…

I personally loved the concept of the aisles being one-way, with arrows on the ground indicating which way the traffic would flow. It seems like that would make it harder for inconsiderate people to block the aisles. Though hard to say since in practice hardly anybody seemed to follow them, kind of shocking to me. I…

It’s also a way to massively parallelize checking out. You can fit like ten of those things in a space where you can fit three cashiers with belts. People with giant carts who are going to waste my time, end up in the belt lanes. I and my three things are going to the self-checkout, where I can pay in ten seconds and…

How, exactly, are costs being transferred to me? I don’t pay extra to use the self-checkout and it is a lot faster than dealing with a cashier 99% of the time. My only complaint with self-checkout machines is they don’t accept cash, at least in my city.