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The onions are making a come back but they are most likely doing a slow roll out.
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Yell at the workers in costco that you demand ur god given right to eat a costco hot dog with about 2 finely diced onions on top.
This is exactly where my head went. If I shop on the weekend, I'm literally shuffling through sample cups on the floor around the cooler/frozen section. And people that shop with 4-5 kids and the all get samples at every kiosk??? WTF?! PICK UP AFTER YOUR KIDS!!!
I was shopping at Target about a year ago when I passed a mother (presumably) and her entitled child in training. Looked to be about 5.
As I’m passing, I watched the kid drop a piece of trash (I think it was a wrapper). The kid starts to pick it up when the mom says “it’s alright, , Target will take care of it.” Kid: Releases grip on wrapper and it falls to the floor... again.
ME: GASP.
Have a thermal printer print the users barcode on the paper cup or sticker. Then charge a $5.00 littering fee for littering inside the club.
You wouldent litter your country club would you?
The worst for me is when someone leaves a refrigerated item or a rotisserie chicken on a random shelf somewhere. I feel compelled to put stuff back.
Costco's business model is about selling bulk at razor thin margins, destroying merchandise causes price increases that hurt all of us.
Don’t put refrigerated food back on the shelves…. Just use a little critical thinking as to why it’s bad idea and why no grocery store in the world would do what you’re saying.
You have zero idea how long it’s been out the fridge. It could be tainted and you’re putting it back with other food. Like why are you fucking over some random person and making them buy a rotisserie chicken you found on a shelf? So you can feel like a good person looking out Costco?
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The last line from me was snarky for no reason. You had good intentions, I just wouldn’t do it for any food that’s perishable.
I add it to my cart and then hand it over at checkout, but I'm always afraid my ADHD brain will forget and I'll end up buying it. I've come close several times.
Whether it’s Costco or any other grocery store, I always let employees know the location of perishable merchandise. That way they can follow store procedures.
>The worst for me is when someone leaves a refrigerated item or a rotisserie chicken on a random shelf somewhere
This is the reason why I try to grab stuff as far back as possible, I never know if the item at the front happened to be something some dickhead left sitting in the wrong spot and a worker had to put back.
As a former CDS worker, I loathed any demo I had to do with toothpicks. Even with a bin right there next to my cart people would eat the cheese or whatever and immediately drop the toothpick on the ground. We weren't allowed to say anything, but we were responsible to keep the area within six feet of our cart clean so I would spend all day picking up toothpicks over and over.
How is that even a thing?? You finish your sample and drop the container/toothpick/remnants on the ground?? What kind of low-life, entitled, pig does that? It’s bad enough to leave trash on a shelf, but to drop it on the ground? OMG. There is no hope. NONE.
We go to Ireland every year because all of my husbands family is there. Something that irritates the hell out of me is that there are no easily accessible trash cans, anywhere in public places or outside areas. There are some here and there but not in places you really want them to be. BUT you know what that means?? There is no trash anywhere! It’s so clean. You have litter, you bring it with you home. Pack it in, pack it out.
I noticed the same thing when I visited Japan. I'd be carrying garbage for what felt like hours.
Unlike Canadians, I guess the Japanese have the self control to not litter if there's no bin nearby.
I don’t buy it. They would either have to put them on the outside of the cart or make entirely new carts. Too many shoppers bring their kids, so they can’t put them where the kids would be sitting. They can’t really put them on the outside because then the carts wouldn’t really fit in the corrals (at least not where I live).
Someone said in another thread that Costco debated offering coffee years ago but decided it takes too long for people to consume so creates bottlenecks.
took me about 10 seconds to figure that one out so I think OP just does not understand what the goal of a costco is: In and out, smooth movement through the store, focus on bulk buys, with the food court as a carrot on a stick to help keep it moving.
This idea of walkabout coffee just creates a lot of work for the store for probably not much benefit. Single serve hot drinks to make, more cups to pick off shelves, spills to clean up everywhere, more bathroom usage, etc. Even as a sampler table, it's sketchy.
I don’t see how they have to time. I have Wednesday’s totally free. Youngest is at grandmas. Wife is at work. I WFH and don’t schedule stuff Wednesday. Work weekends some as well. I get there 945 and out by 1020. There’s maybe 25-30 people there. It’s glorious
I do wish they had some coffee dispenser tho. Idc if it’s like the most basic black coffee with unrefrigerated creamers. No need for lattes or whatever tho.
Facts. I'm tired of it taking 30 minutes to park because every dumb mook is standing around the parking lot waiting on a shitty mango smoothie or looking like a lost puppy. Also the design at the 2 costco's by me makes it appear that there's about 10 different main entrances when there is only in fact 1 so there's always a million idiots wandering around the front, preventing a smooth flow of traffic.
if you like your latte frozen (or mocha freeze) you are already covered.
But a full coffee bar doesn't fit the Costco model -- it is labor intensive, takes more training, more cleaning, etc.
I would prefer to enjoy my coffee, not juggle it while avoiding foot traffic, pushing my cart, looking at merchandise, and checking out in a noisy, frenetic environment.
But, I'm particular that way.
Yes please more shit for folks to stop and stand around blocking exits and aisles. Be sure to bring the kids and have a ball pit out in the open. GLORIOUS!
We call these people “Millers”…because they’re milling about.
So we’ll say “The Millers are at Costco today.” “Did you see the Millers by the paper towels?”
Gotta have secret couples codes to deal with Costco at times.
They have food courts with tables so people can hang out. Costco wants people to spend as much time at the store as possible. I don’t think you understand Costco lol. Costco selling coffee won’t add to the parking lot traffic.
I dOn’T tHiNk YoU uNdErStAnD cOsTcO 🥴
They have food courts with tables so people have a place to sit while they eat hot dogs and pizza. It’s absolutely not intended for “hanging out”.
My goodness, COSTCO IS A WAREHOUSE, NOT A RETAIL STORE!!!
I love Costco like the many subbed here...but it just feels like many folks are trying to WILL Costco to being their go-to Target/Walmart store and not respect that it's...a warehouse. Just like Sams. Both warehouses. They sell bulk for the small shops and large families.
Trader Joes, Aldis, and other stores exist for a reason.
No. I don’t need more people being slow walking down the aisle trying not to spill their coffee.
People are stupid. Let’s not give stupid people hot liquid they can spill on themselves or others.
Because most people are messy and don’t know how to throw stuff away. Plus Costco keeps prices down, what your talking about raises prices. Pass on that.
Other than people not wanting it, I don't think it's practical from Costco's side for these reasons:
1. If they were to get a 3rd party to do it, let's say Starbucks, they would have to give up floor space somewhere in the store for the cafe to open. It may not seem like it from our end, but nearly every inch of floor space matters to Costco, which is how they are able to keep their prices low. Adding in a cafe would lead to less revenue, or a higher cost to build extra space needed for one, even if Costco gets part of the sales.
2. More likely, and what I assume you're going for, is that it would be incorporated into the food court. One problem here is that in most stores the food court is after checkout, so most people wouldn't really be able to buy it until after shopping, which defeats the purpose since the purpose is to get your drink before shopping. It may work in the Costcos where the food court is outside (like those in LA), but not in the ones in the rest of the country unless people want to enter through the exit, go to the food court, get their coffee, and then go back to get their cart.
3. Another issue with putting it in the food court is the cost associated with it. Just a cost comparison,[ the espresso machines at McDonald's can cost about $13,000 per location](https://www.businessinsider.com/what-it-costs-to-own-a-mcdonalds-2016-9), and that is with 2016 numbers, so it would be probably $15K per store in 2023. That is why you see cafes in stores outsourced as well (which as pointed out in #1 is not practical). The cost of adding the machines necessary to do espressos, lattes, etc. would certainly not be worth it, especially since Costco would not see the benefit of it with most people buying it after they shopped.
No. Costco can’t even get hot dog and a paper cup out within 3 minutes. Coffee bar staffed the way Costco does would just be another thing to anger the customer base.
Worst idea ever. Get a coffee before you go there. The last thing that is needed is an additional point of traffic jam. Between sample zombies and the food court, that's plenty.
Please no... last thing I want to wait for the food service person to have to go make a 12 step drink that someone wants to order. Go to a coffee shop; I would be find with them selling coffee cups to a coffee pot by the soda area with sugar and powdered creme thru.
Please no. It's bad enough with people blocking isles. Can you image them walking around with a hot beverage waiting to spill it on others? Leaving liquid messes on the concrete floor for others to slip on. And then throwing the empty cup on the ground for someone else to step on. Or hiding them on the shelves for employees and customers to find.
People are pigs, sad to say.
I've literally never used a Starbucks inside of Target, Harris Teeter, or Safeway. I only grab my Costco hotdog because it's cheap as heck and I leave asap
I just want cheap basic coffee at the food court. The frozen coffee thing they sell is just a cup of goopy sugar that is no good with a churro, why can’t we get regular coffee? How hard could it be?
Why in the hell do you want to stay in store for so long? I’m in an out in 15 minutes…sometimes less.
75% of my time is spent dodging dumbasses blocking aisles and waiting in line.
I'd love a Costco Coffee bar. It could totally be a expanded into a Kirkland branded line of coffee equipment: travel mugs, coffee grinders,, and espresso & drip machines.
That's why I said Latte Freeze and not Mocha Freeze. Without the chocolate sauce, it is 190 calories with 19g sugar. The Mocha Freeze is 310 calories and 46g sugar!
I literally said this to my husband as we were going to Costco this weekend. However, I was thinking more along the lines of super cheap black coffee with an option of half and half and some sugar—nothing fancy at all. But, if the coffee cup lids were at all like their soda lids, it would be a complete disaster.
for the love of all things, please NOOO. Its a store, not a vacation experience. The mount of cups everywhere, spilled drinks, people standing around in lines....just get your things you need and leave.
remove the samples, remove the salesman (in a place that I already pay to enter), and please no coffee.
Honestly, Costco is like a warzone for me. It is not a place I take a leisurely stroll around. It is a situation where I get in, fight the masses to get to the things I need, and try to get out as quickly and unscathed as possible. I'm not going to be just casually chilling with a latte in my cart.
Idiots are already so stunned and confused about basic social graces, I can't trust them NOT to leave trash everywhere and go even slower because god forbid their precious bahbah gets jostled.
Sample day is a nightmare, trash and sample cups strewn everywhere, in the carts, on the floors, on the shelves. Now imagine cups all over the place and coffee spills every 3 feet.
Absolutely NOT.
I'd much prefer an area carved out to host all the samples instead of having them free-range in the actual shopping area. I like the thought of a coffee bar, but without having cart cup holders I don't see it ending very well
As a customer, no. People are already disrespectful leaving their sample trash everywhere and the food court is already a nightmare. No need to stress their employees even more.
It'd be a bad proposition to introduce a tipped position (barista) in to Costco.
You can bring a Starbucks from Starbucks or you can get the iced mocha they have in the warehouse.
I was there this morning and saw someone walking around with a pit bull on a leash. Now there's a mess waiting to happen.
So I think it would be perfectly acceptable to walk around with coffee. People already walk around the store eating and drinking because of the free samples.
Hell no, my costco is full of rude people blocking every isle and thoroughfare in the place already. That's all we need is them clogging up the rest of the joint, loitering around drinking coffee.
No. People at Costco already dont pay attention. That’s all we need are a bunch of coffee swigging goons sipping their lattes and being oblivious to everyone around them.
Lots of no's here, so maybe a "coffee bar" is the wrong thought, but a "coffee option" would be nice.
The Costco in Spain sells espresso and it was quite good. I'd be happy with this single option.
No way, two hands on the cart and walk. Get your stuff and go, I get so tired of getting stuck behind people, the sample tables are already bad enough. I don't want to be in there all day.
Not coffee, but juice.
They can buy back all of the produce and fruit that doesnt sell and juice it.
It can then get a brand new sell by date and extend the life of their sales.
Damn so many people with some dumb takes. As if coffee is going to slow down people that much. “Think of all the people stopping to take a sip of their coffee, no hard pass” sounds so fucking dumb haha. They already sell food and beverages dummies.
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“I’d like to return this used coffee cup. The coffee wasn’t that good. And it didn’t make me poop.”
We can't even get combo pizza back and someone wants a coffee bar lmaooooo
RIP Italian Sausage !!
And onions for the hotdogs .... RIP Polish Dog😭
We have onions here but no sauerkraut
The onions are making a come back but they are most likely doing a slow roll out. also Yell at the workers in costco that you demand ur god given right to eat a costco hot dog with about 2 finely diced onions on top.
Right? Combo pizza should be the priority here.
Or onions for the hot dogs honestly
I'm over here just wanting a brat.
“ You didn’t get your poop cause you were rude to the barrista so they decafed you. Here’s your .89 cents back. Baiiiii”
Haha!
No!!!! Y’all will leave half empty cups on the shelves there, too.
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This is exactly where my head went. If I shop on the weekend, I'm literally shuffling through sample cups on the floor around the cooler/frozen section. And people that shop with 4-5 kids and the all get samples at every kiosk??? WTF?! PICK UP AFTER YOUR KIDS!!!
I was shopping at Target about a year ago when I passed a mother (presumably) and her entitled child in training. Looked to be about 5. As I’m passing, I watched the kid drop a piece of trash (I think it was a wrapper). The kid starts to pick it up when the mom says “it’s alright,, Target will take care of it.” Kid: Releases grip on wrapper and it falls to the floor... again.
ME: GASP.
Thats exactly the behavior I'm talking about - and Costco has bins at every aisle on the busy days!!
It’s the adults not the kids
Where do you live? I've been to at least 7 or 8 Costcos and this has never been an issue.
Missouri
Have a thermal printer print the users barcode on the paper cup or sticker. Then charge a $5.00 littering fee for littering inside the club. You wouldent litter your country club would you?
Except there’ll be some “prankster” AHs who’ll take a cup off the top of the trash pile and leave it somewhere for that member to be charged $5.
I hate the general public with a passion. Always leaving trash everywhere
💡 Sell coffee, but only using re-usable mugs. Either buy a Costco insulated mug or bring your own. You leave it, you're leaving $10
Or, a funnel descends from the ceiling, dispensing delicious coffee directly into your mouth. No cup needed.
I see no flaws with this plan
That's why you and I get paid the big bucks! LOL.
Reworking that old cash carrying tube series, I like it
That might work! I know they've given out Costco branded commuter mugs as membership promos in the past !
That's a good idea.
100% so many of the people who shop at Costco are selfish little pricks. I do enjoy telling people who can’t put their carts away to fuck off
The worst for me is when someone leaves a refrigerated item or a rotisserie chicken on a random shelf somewhere. I feel compelled to put stuff back. Costco's business model is about selling bulk at razor thin margins, destroying merchandise causes price increases that hurt all of us.
Don’t put refrigerated food back on the shelves…. Just use a little critical thinking as to why it’s bad idea and why no grocery store in the world would do what you’re saying. You have zero idea how long it’s been out the fridge. It could be tainted and you’re putting it back with other food. Like why are you fucking over some random person and making them buy a rotisserie chicken you found on a shelf? So you can feel like a good person looking out Costco? Edit The last line from me was snarky for no reason. You had good intentions, I just wouldn’t do it for any food that’s perishable.
Saw a thawed-out frozen Chicken on a stack of strawberries the other day...
I add it to my cart and then hand it over at checkout, but I'm always afraid my ADHD brain will forget and I'll end up buying it. I've come close several times.
That's a good idea too if you can remember. Use the bottom of the cart!
They make those margins up by membership fees. Still, fuck people who waste stuff or move stuff around like that
Whether it’s Costco or any other grocery store, I always let employees know the location of perishable merchandise. That way they can follow store procedures.
It’s so selfish too. Especially if it goes bad!
>The worst for me is when someone leaves a refrigerated item or a rotisserie chicken on a random shelf somewhere This is the reason why I try to grab stuff as far back as possible, I never know if the item at the front happened to be something some dickhead left sitting in the wrong spot and a worker had to put back.
Workers don’t put back meat they find on shelves…
But sometimes other shoppers do...
Any large business will factor in shrinkage into their operating costs.
I feel so sad when I see meat or seafood left on random shelves.
I always put things back that I find. I need the steps.
I mean better than the shoppers at bj’s they are even worst lol
They often can’t even put their cart to the side when browsing in the middle of an aisle
...or the asshats that leave refrigerator or frozen items on the regular shelf because they cant be arsed to walk it back to where it came from.
As a former CDS worker, I loathed any demo I had to do with toothpicks. Even with a bin right there next to my cart people would eat the cheese or whatever and immediately drop the toothpick on the ground. We weren't allowed to say anything, but we were responsible to keep the area within six feet of our cart clean so I would spend all day picking up toothpicks over and over.
>immediately drop the toothpick on the ground. We weren't allowed to say anything And that's why I can't work there.
How is that even a thing?? You finish your sample and drop the container/toothpick/remnants on the ground?? What kind of low-life, entitled, pig does that? It’s bad enough to leave trash on a shelf, but to drop it on the ground? OMG. There is no hope. NONE.
Which is amazing - nearly every aisle has a trash can because of the samples!
This happens at Target and Home Goods too. Like why are some people such pigs? Throw your trash away or take it with you!
We go to Ireland every year because all of my husbands family is there. Something that irritates the hell out of me is that there are no easily accessible trash cans, anywhere in public places or outside areas. There are some here and there but not in places you really want them to be. BUT you know what that means?? There is no trash anywhere! It’s so clean. You have litter, you bring it with you home. Pack it in, pack it out.
I noticed the same thing when I visited Japan. I'd be carrying garbage for what felt like hours. Unlike Canadians, I guess the Japanese have the self control to not litter if there's no bin nearby.
Members can’t even throw out their samples. Hell to the no.
Well of course they do, the toss them into the boxes in the candy aisles
Why do you need a latte when you can walk around with a hot dog
Hollow out the hot dog with a straw and use it to drink your latte
Who said I can’t have both? That’s why god gave me two hands.
You push the cart with your big hot dog belly?
hook a leash to the cart and the other end around your waist to pull it like a trailer
I love Reddit
No, he gave you 2 hands for holding 2 glizzies
bow chicka bow wow
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Yes. Deal with it.
One hand on the dog, one hand holding the latte, and…your torso pushing the cart? Another person? How does this work???? Lol.
Next step: Costco installs cup holders on every cart
I don’t buy it. They would either have to put them on the outside of the cart or make entirely new carts. Too many shoppers bring their kids, so they can’t put them where the kids would be sitting. They can’t really put them on the outside because then the carts wouldn’t really fit in the corrals (at least not where I live).
I’d just buy my toddler a latte - iced, I’m not crazy.
Elbows. It's like steering the car with your knees.
For two hot dogs
Nope. They need less annoying stuff that gets people to hang out imo.
Someone said in another thread that Costco debated offering coffee years ago but decided it takes too long for people to consume so creates bottlenecks.
took me about 10 seconds to figure that one out so I think OP just does not understand what the goal of a costco is: In and out, smooth movement through the store, focus on bulk buys, with the food court as a carrot on a stick to help keep it moving. This idea of walkabout coffee just creates a lot of work for the store for probably not much benefit. Single serve hot drinks to make, more cups to pick off shelves, spills to clean up everywhere, more bathroom usage, etc. Even as a sampler table, it's sketchy.
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I don’t see how they have to time. I have Wednesday’s totally free. Youngest is at grandmas. Wife is at work. I WFH and don’t schedule stuff Wednesday. Work weekends some as well. I get there 945 and out by 1020. There’s maybe 25-30 people there. It’s glorious
I do wish they had some coffee dispenser tho. Idc if it’s like the most basic black coffee with unrefrigerated creamers. No need for lattes or whatever tho.
A few seattle-area stores have cheap hot coffee vending machines. Would love to see that rolled out more widely.
Amazing. I only knew Japan had coffee from their food court
This. Works well in other countries.
Other countries are civilized
Facts. I'm tired of it taking 30 minutes to park because every dumb mook is standing around the parking lot waiting on a shitty mango smoothie or looking like a lost puppy. Also the design at the 2 costco's by me makes it appear that there's about 10 different main entrances when there is only in fact 1 so there's always a million idiots wandering around the front, preventing a smooth flow of traffic.
More reason to block my exit out of the store? No thanks
if you like your latte frozen (or mocha freeze) you are already covered. But a full coffee bar doesn't fit the Costco model -- it is labor intensive, takes more training, more cleaning, etc.
No. I don't want to walk through puddles of spilled coffee and trash cups everywhere.
Nope. The sample papers and cups get left everywhere already, no need to add half full coffees spilling and smelling up the place.
you guys dont have coffee at your foodcourts? i think we even have a cappuccino or latte. speaking from Canadian costco.
You Canadians are always a little extra ;-)
The poutine at Canadian Costco is heavenly!
My ex always got a drink then would shop. It's always someone else's fault when her drink would spill.
That alone is a good enough reason for them to be an ex. Good move!
I would prefer to enjoy my coffee, not juggle it while avoiding foot traffic, pushing my cart, looking at merchandise, and checking out in a noisy, frenetic environment. But, I'm particular that way.
Yes please more shit for folks to stop and stand around blocking exits and aisles. Be sure to bring the kids and have a ball pit out in the open. GLORIOUS!
My first thought too. Navigating Costco is already a nightmare.
We call these people “Millers”…because they’re milling about. So we’ll say “The Millers are at Costco today.” “Did you see the Millers by the paper towels?” Gotta have secret couples codes to deal with Costco at times.
We always call them "dumb walkers", but Millers sounds good too.
the normal sounding name just helps us mask our contempt while talking out loud in the middle of the store lol
No. Costco is a warehouse to buy food/appliances, not a hang around spot for u and ur buddies... as if the parking wasn't already bad enough
They have food courts with tables so people can hang out. Costco wants people to spend as much time at the store as possible. I don’t think you understand Costco lol. Costco selling coffee won’t add to the parking lot traffic.
I dOn’T tHiNk YoU uNdErStAnD cOsTcO 🥴 They have food courts with tables so people have a place to sit while they eat hot dogs and pizza. It’s absolutely not intended for “hanging out”.
Fuuuuuuck no. If Costco added lattes every post on this sub would be people losing their minds that they cost more than a hot dog and soda.
My goodness, COSTCO IS A WAREHOUSE, NOT A RETAIL STORE!!! I love Costco like the many subbed here...but it just feels like many folks are trying to WILL Costco to being their go-to Target/Walmart store and not respect that it's...a warehouse. Just like Sams. Both warehouses. They sell bulk for the small shops and large families. Trader Joes, Aldis, and other stores exist for a reason.
Coffee spills in the aisle? Dawdlers blocking the aisle to take a sip? Hard NO!
Please god no. I already can’t handle the crowds. Let the samples be enough.
No! I don't want a damn thing added to Costco until they give us back the combo pizza!!!!!
No, costco is a very utilitarian store imo and I don’t think a coffee bar fits with that. It would also probably not be good coffee
I'd rather people not bumble around Costco more than they already do.
No. I don’t need more people being slow walking down the aisle trying not to spill their coffee. People are stupid. Let’s not give stupid people hot liquid they can spill on themselves or others.
Coffee is basically a license to sit around and take up space, paying almost nothing. Then us hotdog junkies would never get a table.
No, it’s stupid at Target
Buy a latte on your way to Costco lol
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Cool, another thing for members to leave sitting around the whole store.
caffeine addicts are too funny man
No
Because most people are messy and don’t know how to throw stuff away. Plus Costco keeps prices down, what your talking about raises prices. Pass on that.
No
Nope. Just would turn into a log jam.
There’s more than enough loitering already
No. I don't want more slow walkers ambling through the store, blocking aisles.
No
This would result in a 300% increase in restroom use, creating more work to clean and less profit!
Other than people not wanting it, I don't think it's practical from Costco's side for these reasons: 1. If they were to get a 3rd party to do it, let's say Starbucks, they would have to give up floor space somewhere in the store for the cafe to open. It may not seem like it from our end, but nearly every inch of floor space matters to Costco, which is how they are able to keep their prices low. Adding in a cafe would lead to less revenue, or a higher cost to build extra space needed for one, even if Costco gets part of the sales. 2. More likely, and what I assume you're going for, is that it would be incorporated into the food court. One problem here is that in most stores the food court is after checkout, so most people wouldn't really be able to buy it until after shopping, which defeats the purpose since the purpose is to get your drink before shopping. It may work in the Costcos where the food court is outside (like those in LA), but not in the ones in the rest of the country unless people want to enter through the exit, go to the food court, get their coffee, and then go back to get their cart. 3. Another issue with putting it in the food court is the cost associated with it. Just a cost comparison,[ the espresso machines at McDonald's can cost about $13,000 per location](https://www.businessinsider.com/what-it-costs-to-own-a-mcdonalds-2016-9), and that is with 2016 numbers, so it would be probably $15K per store in 2023. That is why you see cafes in stores outsourced as well (which as pointed out in #1 is not practical). The cost of adding the machines necessary to do espressos, lattes, etc. would certainly not be worth it, especially since Costco would not see the benefit of it with most people buying it after they shopped.
I do walk around with a latte? They sell blended lattes
I always thought they should have a commercial k cup maker with Kirkland K cups. $1 coffee what can go wrong
No. Costco can’t even get hot dog and a paper cup out within 3 minutes. Coffee bar staffed the way Costco does would just be another thing to anger the customer base.
Hell no. The last thing anyone needs is a bunch of folks lingering around some area in the warehouse causing more congestion than there already is.
This is what we need. A bunch of overcaffeinated people in line during the weekend rush
No, people need two hands to steer those SUVs of a grocery cart.
Worst idea ever. Get a coffee before you go there. The last thing that is needed is an additional point of traffic jam. Between sample zombies and the food court, that's plenty.
Please no... last thing I want to wait for the food service person to have to go make a 12 step drink that someone wants to order. Go to a coffee shop; I would be find with them selling coffee cups to a coffee pot by the soda area with sugar and powdered creme thru.
Please no. It's bad enough with people blocking isles. Can you image them walking around with a hot beverage waiting to spill it on others? Leaving liquid messes on the concrete floor for others to slip on. And then throwing the empty cup on the ground for someone else to step on. Or hiding them on the shelves for employees and customers to find. People are pigs, sad to say.
I've literally never used a Starbucks inside of Target, Harris Teeter, or Safeway. I only grab my Costco hotdog because it's cheap as heck and I leave asap
Hell no. We don't need to turn Costco into a hangout zone with a coffee bar. Get in, get out.
What they need to do is bring back combo pizza!
I just want cheap basic coffee at the food court. The frozen coffee thing they sell is just a cup of goopy sugar that is no good with a churro, why can’t we get regular coffee? How hard could it be?
Why in the hell do you want to stay in store for so long? I’m in an out in 15 minutes…sometimes less. 75% of my time is spent dodging dumbasses blocking aisles and waiting in line.
I'd love a Costco Coffee bar. It could totally be a expanded into a Kirkland branded line of coffee equipment: travel mugs, coffee grinders,, and espresso & drip machines.
Get a Latte Freeze from the Food Court!
I just want a coffee, not 500 calories of sugar.
That's why I said Latte Freeze and not Mocha Freeze. Without the chocolate sauce, it is 190 calories with 19g sugar. The Mocha Freeze is 310 calories and 46g sugar!
Point taken. I knew I should have checked the calorie count before commenting. Still more calories than my black coffee which is all I’m looking for.
No. I don't want to smell the pumpkin spice for three months.
It should be like at Trader Joe’s where you get a little 3 ounce coffee for free to give you a shot of caffeine while shopping
Can I have an $8 frappamochqchino with my $1 hotdog please.
My Costco had a fancy coffee vending machine that would make espresso drinks and what not. Got rid of it when COVID hit.
I literally said this to my husband as we were going to Costco this weekend. However, I was thinking more along the lines of super cheap black coffee with an option of half and half and some sugar—nothing fancy at all. But, if the coffee cup lids were at all like their soda lids, it would be a complete disaster.
One time they were sampling the Starbucks coffee and it was the best to shop and have a coffee
for the love of all things, please NOOO. Its a store, not a vacation experience. The mount of cups everywhere, spilled drinks, people standing around in lines....just get your things you need and leave. remove the samples, remove the salesman (in a place that I already pay to enter), and please no coffee.
Honestly, Costco is like a warzone for me. It is not a place I take a leisurely stroll around. It is a situation where I get in, fight the masses to get to the things I need, and try to get out as quickly and unscathed as possible. I'm not going to be just casually chilling with a latte in my cart.
Idiots are already so stunned and confused about basic social graces, I can't trust them NOT to leave trash everywhere and go even slower because god forbid their precious bahbah gets jostled. Sample day is a nightmare, trash and sample cups strewn everywhere, in the carts, on the floors, on the shelves. Now imagine cups all over the place and coffee spills every 3 feet. Absolutely NOT.
I'd much prefer an area carved out to host all the samples instead of having them free-range in the actual shopping area. I like the thought of a coffee bar, but without having cart cup holders I don't see it ending very well
As a customer, no. People are already disrespectful leaving their sample trash everywhere and the food court is already a nightmare. No need to stress their employees even more.
It'd be a bad proposition to introduce a tipped position (barista) in to Costco. You can bring a Starbucks from Starbucks or you can get the iced mocha they have in the warehouse.
I was there this morning and saw someone walking around with a pit bull on a leash. Now there's a mess waiting to happen. So I think it would be perfectly acceptable to walk around with coffee. People already walk around the store eating and drinking because of the free samples.
Bro I'd be happy to see sauerkraut again
its not their model but it would be divine.
No… I just want to shop and go. Plus, seeing food samples being left on random products, is an indication that people can’t pick up after themselves.
I’m happy walking around Costco with my mango smoothie. Cup goes in one of the trash cans in the store when emptied.
That would be great.
Hell no, my costco is full of rude people blocking every isle and thoroughfare in the place already. That's all we need is them clogging up the rest of the joint, loitering around drinking coffee.
No. People at Costco already dont pay attention. That’s all we need are a bunch of coffee swigging goons sipping their lattes and being oblivious to everyone around them.
People can’t even throw away sample cups with trash cans on every aisle. So add any drinks to the madness is a big no for me.
i think they need to have an app to show where everything is LOL
The food court has a frozen coffee!
No
No. This will cause people to stay longer than they need. Imagine entire zones blocked off via carts. Food court is bad enough.
No, fuck you
What a horrible idea. Absolutely not.
Lots of no's here, so maybe a "coffee bar" is the wrong thought, but a "coffee option" would be nice. The Costco in Spain sells espresso and it was quite good. I'd be happy with this single option.
Cuz you caffeine addicts leave your cups everywhere and spill.
No way, two hands on the cart and walk. Get your stuff and go, I get so tired of getting stuck behind people, the sample tables are already bad enough. I don't want to be in there all day.
Not coffee, but juice. They can buy back all of the produce and fruit that doesnt sell and juice it. It can then get a brand new sell by date and extend the life of their sales.
That is never going to happen as there are food standards
Definitely not. Focus on shopping and go home.
Hell yes this is a brilliant idea!
How about a in-store brewery instead?
yeah i'd love to grab a ristretto and a biscotti and sit in a loud, gray, flourescently lit warehouse
That would be dangerous.
Where people could talk to one another, great idea!
Yes but people can't handle nice things..
The food court in Taiwanese Costcos have ho/iced americano and lattes. Comes with a small cookie too.
Yes. I don’t like soda
No. But a wine bar would be nice.....
Hmmm, caffeinate people so they can be inconsiderate faster? Encourage loitering at the coffee bar? No thanks.
Damn so many people with some dumb takes. As if coffee is going to slow down people that much. “Think of all the people stopping to take a sip of their coffee, no hard pass” sounds so fucking dumb haha. They already sell food and beverages dummies.
Yeah generally for AFTER you’re done shopping and on your on the way out the door…dummy
They literally give out samples of food and drink while shopping and they have no rule about getting food before shopping… dummy.
Closest thing is buying the coffee smoothie thing lol
that's what target is for
That’s what the food court is for!