Costco Shoppers Out of Control with Coupons
A Retail Slave at Costco in California sent us these Retail Hell pictures after a night of Coupon Carrying Customers trashing the place. She informed us it's like this every night during coupon months.
What's really troubling to us about all this Retail Hell at Costco is that it's WHOLESALE and many of its members are business people and...ummm..dare we say it...IN fucking retail! WTF? What is wrong with them that they have to throw shit everywhere?
According to our Retail Slave Costco Informant, Customers who have that delirious infatuation of getting "a perfect fresh one" (we're talking bottle, box, and can), like to pull from the back and bottom of a large pallet causing messes and dangerous shopping conditions.
Retail Hell Underground has a few solutions for these crazed Coupon Shoppers. First, we'd add a condition to each and every coupon:
And for the part about Customers pulling from the back and bottom of pallets, a shelf sign:
And if none of these work?
Unleash Betsy...
She won't take shit off of nobody.
I want a Betsy for my store!
Posted by: Freddy | May 06, 2008 at 07:23 PM
I'm thinking...
Unless the factory can afford to put their packing dept in orbit, pallets are stacked from the bottom up. If any one container is a whole 30seconds fresher than another, it would be the freaking top ones.
It's not like the LIFO shelving in the supermarket dairy case.
I readily confess to reaching in to the back for the freshest carton of milk. Do with me what you will.
Posted by: the bagel of everything | May 06, 2008 at 08:16 PM
er...FIFO
Editor plz?
Posted by: the bagel of everything | May 06, 2008 at 08:18 PM
I never act that way at Coscto..WTF!
Posted by: Jane | May 06, 2008 at 11:19 PM
ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!! I love Betsy! My son actually has one that I could use. lol
I don't have to get one from the back all the time, but if it looks like it's been dropped kick from the back room and opened for a 'taste test', I go behind it. lol But hubby ALWAYS grabs from behind...ALWAYS! lol
Posted by: Lori | May 07, 2008 at 06:18 AM
Dude, you are so preaching to the choir about people in retail shopping at CostCo and yet make a fucking mess of the store. They must be management who are doing the shopping- they don't seem to care how many hours it takes to put all that shit back- they have their own retail slaves to do that back at their shops.
I love the coupon disclaimer! Wish I lived in that parallel universe!
Posted by: Eric C. | May 07, 2008 at 01:17 PM
I work for Costco Wholesale #439 in Aurora, Colorado and I have to give props for this story. It is 100% true!! I could go on for centuries on what members do to our stores..probably could write a huge book. Hopefully there will be more stories on Costco!
Posted by: Paul F. | May 07, 2008 at 02:25 PM
My God..who would do this?! A complete mess! It must have been hell to clean. I love the coupon idea and could I print that sign for my store? Genius !
Posted by: Carrisa | May 07, 2008 at 04:06 PM
They need someone who can control these customers and make them behave! They need me!
Posted by: Barack Obama | May 08, 2008 at 09:06 AM
No, they need me, a real ass-kicker!
Posted by: Hilary Clinton | May 08, 2008 at 09:07 AM
No, they need me, not an ass-licker.
Posted by: Barack Obama | May 08, 2008 at 09:08 AM
At least I kind find the ass.
Posted by: Hilary Clinton | May 08, 2008 at 09:08 AM
Whatever, dude...
Posted by: Barack Obama | May 08, 2008 at 09:09 AM
I work in a grocery warehouse store, and I see this all the time too. I don't understand why customers do this with non-perishable items because the item has already been on the shelf for a long time, so it loses its "fresh" feature anyway. And the expiration dates are usually FOREVER away from the current date, so again...WTF?!
BAGEL: with milk, it's understandable from grabbing from the back. It's not gonna cause the entire rack to fall down, and milk dates are short. I hope you're at least reading the dates.
Posted by: JH | May 08, 2008 at 04:18 PM
LMFAO Betsy....
Posted by: Leyla | May 09, 2008 at 07:15 PM
I love it: "Coupon void if you are a huge pig"..That should be on every coupon...
At my brand spankin new job today I've had a couple people start to annoy me. The customers are 90% better than the last store I worked at but of course I got this crabby lady who wanted to redeem a coupon. I said "ma'am, the back says 'Not valid at OUTLETS'" She said... "Oh well that's just stupid. WHY WOULD THEY EVEN SEND IT TO ME THEN?" I was like ummm b/c there are NON outlet stores??? Lol. She's all like.. well I'm going to just have to CALL someone about this one... Lol. Go 'head bitch.
Posted by: Regan | May 09, 2008 at 07:17 PM