Bad news if you’re mooching off of someone else’s Costco membership: The retail giant is cracking down.
When you enter Costco, you need to show your membership card to an employee to shop. Costco membership cards are non-transferable, but the company allows members to give a second household card to one other person in their home. Anyone with a card can bring up to two guests to the club during each visit, the company stipulates.
But Costco has noticed that non-members have been sneaking in with membership cards that don’t belong to them — particularly since Costco expanded self-checkout.
Costco recently started asking for shoppers’ membership cards along with a photo ID at the self-checkout registers, the same policy as regular checkout lanes, to crack down. “We don’t feel it’s right that non-members receive the same benefits and pricing as our members,” Costco said in announcing the change.
Well, now you just sound like you wanna shoplift! 😆
Seriously, though, what does this have to do with shoplifting? It’s like you’re making up excuses to be mad. Just say you don’t wanna pay and leave it at that. No excuses are needed.
You think it’s normal to have your ID checked against your card, at the entrance, at the till, and then have your receipt checked as you leave? Our grandpas’ generation wouldn’t have stood for it, and I’ve come to agree.
They sure did. The damn company was founded by my grandfather’s generation. How much shit are you gonna talk out your ass today?
Where I come from, you don’t count money in front of people, and you just told me how young you are. You wouldn’t remember things like this being an active insult.