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Re:Costco Capitalism by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Monday February 10, 2020 @10:15PM (#22295704)
The real nice thing about Costco is that when I see something I like, I know that it is of decent quality at a decent price. This saves me from having to do research on my own.
Re:Costco Capitalism by triangleman on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @01:43AM (#22296581)
You know what was nice? They have my phone number and called me when they announced a peanut butter recall. Well it wasn't that nice to find out I'd been eating potentially poison peanut butter, but it's better than other retailers.
Re:Costco Capitalism by bentcorner on Monday February 10, 2020 @10:21PM (#22295738)
The downside if there's something you're not sure you're going to like. You risk committing to buying a large amount of something and not liking it.
Re:Costco Capitalism by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Monday February 10, 2020 @10:23PM (#22295748)
Costco does have a pretty generous return policy for those cases.
Re:Costco Capitalism by EdwardWarren on Friday February 14, 2020 @06:12PM (#22331376)
Costco will shut you down if you start playing the 'buy it -return it' game too much. They monitor that. Stand around the front desk a bit and watch the used up crap people return.
Re:Costco Capitalism by edoceo on Monday February 10, 2020 @10:57PM (#22295911)
You can't return food but everything else is just a matter of waiting in line. IMO the only better return policy is Nordstrom.
Re:Costco Capitalism by jedberg on Monday February 10, 2020 @11:13PM (#22295997)
You can return food. They don’t like it and if you do it too much they’ll stop allowing you to return food.

But I’ve definitely returned food that I didn’t like.

Once they even let the guy in front of me return an empty container. He said he had to eat the whole thing to decide he didn’t like it.

Re:Costco Capitalism by graton on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @12:18AM (#22296272)
We have returned food. Sometimes it has been stuff which we didn't like the taste of or produce which has gone bad very quickly. We don't do it often but it happens. Never had any issues in returning it.
Re:Costco Capitalism by fred_is_fred on Monday February 10, 2020 @11:24PM (#22296041)
You can 100% return food. I've returned fruit before that was spoiled and some Kirkland brand k-cups which were the worst thing I've ever bought from there.
Re:Costco Capitalism by lttlrck on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @08:43PM (#22304960)
I returned a fruitcake to Costco.

I was so disappointed that Costco had sold me something so subpar I returned it. I don’t know what they were thinking.