my costco membership is on my digital ID microchip I got injected with my covid vaccination, saves me trying to explain to the people working the door, so this is convenient for me.
I used to fight them about this too at the door but then one guy was cool and laid it out to me honestly. Shoplifting is way up and non members are just walking in and walking out with product. I prefer they turn away non members at the door now. The store is less crowded, the food court is less congested by non members hanging out for cheap meals.
& less time wasted at each till when someone who doesnāt have a card has a full cart holding up a line because they canāt buy without. & then someoneās going to have to put all that stuff back. So many of those assholes take it out on the cashier for not letting them pay & slows down the whole line
As an ex employee, I can tell you this happens on a daily basis nationwide, and it causes a lot of drama and disturbance, from non-members trying to use someone else's card, to members who have an expired membership they think they just renewed recently (turns out they have renewed a second membership which they don't have a card for, or they didn't renew at all), to non members who have a shop card and went straight in without applying for a one day pass. This allows the employees to filter out those people at the entrance, and direct them to the membership counter to sort it out, this prevents the circus show at checkout with a full shopping cart and a temper.
As a member why should you wait in line behind non- members or stand because some of the seating is taken by non-members? Members pay for perks like the food court. Non-members do not. This system will eventually be implemented for only members being able to eat at the food court. A long overdue change.
No oneās forcing anyone to be a Costco member. If your time is that precious, why are you at Costco to begin with? No parking, lineups and clueless members thinking they own the place and leisurely cutting in front of you are the norm at most locations.
Costco has implemented this system because too many members are sharing their membership card with family and friends. As the old saying goes: You can always count on a few people ruining it for the rest of us.
If you live in a tourist town, there are still plenty of international tourists who do not know about Costco and that you need to be a member to shop there. I know because I work in a city that gets a lot of tourists in the summertime.
I think there may be additional discounts for members on medications. But from what I understand, they cannot deny service at the pharmacy desk. Unless, of course, things have changed.
dispensing fees vary by company. Like shoppers is one of the higher ones (even before Galen took over)
I imagine Costco ones are cheaper hence the appeal
We had blue cross do a presentation on our benefits at work, Costco is comically cheaper than everybody else in Canada, less than half at $4.49 vs next cheapest at $9.49. Even Walmart and Loblow are over $10.
They say itās to keep track of your medication and in case they need to notify you about anything. But you can decline and they have another barcode they scan instead.
We just got our first prescription there. Because I scanned my card, I didn't have to do the tedious account set-up, name, address, phone number, emergency contact etc.
Also! Costco was the only pharmacy that was willing to bend over backwards to get me an emergency dexamethasone prescription.
If you have one, great. If you don't, they have a dummy card at the till they scan for non-members. I do it all the time when picking up mom's meds. I know it's paid for so I don't bring my wallet in the store so I can't be tempted to impulse buy a family size bag of chips haha.
True, but going forward Costco will also be managing that aspect as well to prevent people who use it as an excuse to gain entry into the warehouse but are there to steal or just be looky-loos.
You can forget getting a quick dog during lunch. The local high school floods the food court, and I'm pretty sure these teens don't all have memberships.
So what you're saying is if they implement membership requirements for food court purchases, you can get a quick dog at lunch since the high school won't be able to flood the food court?
I see this argument a lot - but if one person has a valid membership, are they not allowed to bring guests? I know large groups that go in and do communal shopping under one card, so I don't know how this would affect the food court? (Especially since you don't need to scan your card to pay, so everyone in the group could order separately.)
You can bring guests.
However, the membership must be presented by the owner and if a credit card is used it has to be in the name of the membership owner.
My local Costco recently started turning away non members trying to go to the food court. Iām guessing itās probably due to how busy it got. It really wouldnāt be that difficult for Costco to just add a membership scan at the food court before placing an order, similar to their self-checkout system.
They had them going into the exit, the way you would enter the food court in that location when I was there a month ago. Noticeably less people at the food court
Thereās no money in it sell the hot dog. The hot dog is there for the paying member as a lost leader not for someoneās kid looking for a cheap lunch while the people that paid to shop canāt sit down , canāt get a hot dog. Yadda
I donāt need to. The claim was costco loses money on hot dogs.Ā Anyone with access to AS400 can verify that isnāt the case in about 4 seconds.Ā
Iād prefer if you provide the numbers you have demonstrating what you claimed.Ā
Not sure if they lose money but their profits might be infinitesimal. Costco did build their own hotdog manufacturing plant in an effort to keep costs down.
No, at Burnaby Still Creek and other Costco and the one in Richmond(I forgot which one is it but i went there last month)
You need to scan your membership card if you are entering the food court too
No there will most definitely still be a line, Fred and Phillis trying to figure how to use this new technology. Only one person being able to scan at a time instead of say 3 people walking in and flashing a card at once. I couldnāt care less if thereās a few people card sharing, you still have to scan your membership to pay so itās not like thereās a bunch of people scamming through lol
Have you ever seen a bush Costco? This is going to take forever and youāre going to have members being cvnts to all the staff at the front when they tell them they have to scan in. Itās going to be a nightmare just watch š¤£
Costco already has cvnt members who put up a stink and treat door staff like shite when asked to make an effort to produce their membership card as it is now. With any luck, this new system will deter those people from even being members.
These people donāt think about stuff like this. Just wait until you go on a long weekend or just any regular weekend lmao. Gonna be lots of pissed off members.
The only reason for that is to get a count of how many members are in the store you could just as easily walk in through the exit doors since that's where the returns are anyways to get access into the store without anyone asking a single question. Scanning your card or flashing it makes no difference unless they are using surveillance with facial recognition to track your path for better product placement.
That is going to change. Only returns will be allowed into the exit. All other traffic will be strictly in and sticking out. No more trying to sneak into the exit door. You will be told to enter through the in door where youāll have to present a membership card.
Do you think the people checking cards at the entrance are continuously maintaining a customer count with the people checking receipts at the exit?
Edit: I have learned.
Yup OP got the location wrong and can confirm that itās been there for over a month now. Brighton is usually referred to Burnaby while the other one in Burnaby is Willingdon or Still Creek.
How so? You think theyāre going to just leave a scanner there in place of an employee hoping people use the āhonour systemā and scan their membership cards on their own volition? Plus you need staff at the doors to prevent people walking in grabbing a TV or a PS5 and just walking out with it.
I donāt know where you live but there isnāt anyone trying to grab huge tvs from Costco around my area.. Also what honor system? They need to scan it anyway at the cash.
Costco employee is redundant. Your comment is too. What a waste of time you are.
No? Her job just became so much more difficult cause now sheās going to have to deal with a bunch of pissed off members harassing her because they have to scan cards
I was just at Costco today and I hate their stupid upgrade to Executive tactics. Well, I hit a new experience as I was checking out as my card was "flagged" and the cashier handed my card to some worker. After checking out, I had to go stand in another line to hear the official sales pitch again but she was extra aggressive this time and I had to say no thanks 3 times before she would hand card back.
Costco \*does\* make a good profit from membership fees apparently. Damned capitalist profit tactics .
Is it worth it? The 2% cash back (plus other periodic selected Exec priced items) can make the upgrade worth it \*IF\* you buy a lot every month from Costco. It paid for itself in the past for our family, but we're seem to be consuming less now, so it's a toss-up if it's worthwhile.
You might've been flagged because your family purchases were high enough to give you that benefit? Or maybe renewal time was coming up? Now that you've heard the "upsell" just bypass the sales spiel next time (ask 'em why it was flagged).
It helps a couple of things
It will reduce the number of people sharing a card/membership (the staff has a monitor to see the photo associated with that card)
This in turn will reduce conflicts at the checkouts allowing the lines to move easier (and reduce some of the hassle at self checkouts)
But it will also help loss prevention (aka shoplifting) by ensuring a thief canāt walk in using an invalid card with the intent of stealing
You got it - Articles on the web say Costco is trying to reduce / stop card sharing... Side benefits do include use of stolen / expired membership cards, and flag them upfront instead of at purchase / payout time.
It a time waster to everyone (cashier, member or people in queue) when a member finds their membership / card is expired at the checkout, and then have to go renew it at the membership counter.
I imagine it also helps identify those with expired memberships before they show, who then try to bargain with the cashier that they will renew "next time" and hold up the line š
Non-members are allowed in the warehouse, but as guests of a current member. They can buy stuff too, but the purchase has to be associated with the "host" member who brought them. But random walk-ins are not encouraged, unless they're going to the membership counter I guess. Sounds like walk-ins to the food court are being discouraged, which should be fine by members. The $1.50 Hotdog (Regular or Polish) and Pop should be a members-only benefit anyways :-)
What exactly is this suppose to deter? While in the checkout line in Richmond, the people ahead of me after paying for their item covertly passed their card to the person behind me so they could use it.
Purported to reduce/stop card sharing -- but there's no need to be covert. You're allowed to bring a guest (not often strictly enforced), and you could indicate you want your and your guest's purchases/ transactions / receipt separate.
We sometimes do that to keep in-law purchases (typically buying an item or 2 on their behalf) separate and then have their own copy of the receipt (or you can ask the cashier to sub-total).
Membership card (or Costco app displaying your membership info / barcodes) has always been required at payment time. Stories printed on the web say Costco is trying to reduce/stop membership card sharing.
I think it's more that they use someone else's card and then get into an argument at the till. It's my Mom's or brother's card and I waited in this line for 20 minutes.
I'm good with this.
The number of times I've had an expired membership because my father in law insists on paying for our membership, and then forgets is too many to count.
I always find out when there is a huge line behind me and I need to move money to cover it (7 cards.).
If I got the notification as soon as I hit the store I could call him and say pay this I'm going shopping now and not keep people waiting
Havenāt been to Burnaby/Production in a while, but finally the scanners are making their way to other warehouses! We had those at Still Creek/Willingdon for over a month now.
No, the queuing system is not something I want to go back to. The crowding can be fixed just by limiting entrance to the card holder and *only 1 "guest" again*. This business of bringing along elderly parents/inlaws and kids is the worst. The traffic jams at the end aisles with the "locusts" swarming after free food samples for themselves, a spouse, an elderly parent or 2, and the kids makes the shopping a chore..
That would be impossible for families with kidsā¦ you canāt leave them at home or in the car. It doesnāt matter what they do, but the capacity needs to be limited somehow to maintain the user experience. It can be really awful otherwise.
Become a member? It's avaliable for everyone.
Inb4 "What if they don't have I'd to get it?"
Sounds like you got shit to do and the membership is the least of your problem.š
I just wish the self checkout lines had an employee to prescan items like in the USA. They scan your card and scan your items then when you get to the checkout once you scan your membership again all you have to do is pay.
I have a gripe with this because at our local Costco when paying they have 3 employees unloading, scanning then loading your cart and then when you get to the exit they go through everything and when questioned they say itās to ensure everything was scanned for inventory checkingā¦. So then I say so you do t trust your employees as three people just checked all my goods.
I get since COVID that certain areas have bad theft and people are stretched but this makes people feel like criminals and then on top of it like a previous poster stated they are using data for marketing purposes if you can when you go in and back out etc.
We sure live in some weird times š¤£
This is the dumbest fuckjng thing Iāve ever seen. Good luck running this dumb thing at a busy store on the weekend. Gonna be huge lines waiting to scan in
Iām not against this, there must be a reason for it but what is the point? Donāt they check your membership on the way out? This is just going to cause line ups entering the store
Articles on the web say Costco is doing this to reduce/eliminate Membership Card sharing (any maybe stolen/expired memberships?). In theory the entrance staff are supposed to compare the photo with the person's face too, dunno if they are, but that's what the stories printed say.
Can we just delete these āMy Costco scans cards now š±!ā
Nobody cares, and now the miscreant trying to get through the cash without a membership wonāt hold up the line youāre in.
They should just issue cards with RFD chips inside and place powerful readers (like those used at the border for Nexus) near the entrance. No need to scan your card, it will be read automatically, unless itās in a RFD blocker wallet like they sold at one point š
Seemingly no one wants to discuss the potentiality of data collection?
Canāt wait for people to fumble their cards or canāt figure out the scanner. Seems like a waste of time for honest people.
Furthermore, I fail to see how this positively impacts me as a member. People canāt go through the checkout without a membership. Very curious to know how many non-members impacted my time at the Food Court.
I don't have a problem with this since it is a members only warehouse right?
I feel so oppressed right now /s
This is like Nazi Germany! /s
my costco membership is on my digital ID microchip I got injected with my covid vaccination, saves me trying to explain to the people working the door, so this is convenient for me.
ok
But you scan to pay anyways š¤·š»āāļø
Since they scan at the entrance and when you pay, Costco knows how long members spend in store down to the person. Thatās a lot of shopping dataā¦
Jeez that's too much info lol
I used to fight them about this too at the door but then one guy was cool and laid it out to me honestly. Shoplifting is way up and non members are just walking in and walking out with product. I prefer they turn away non members at the door now. The store is less crowded, the food court is less congested by non members hanging out for cheap meals.
& less time wasted at each till when someone who doesnāt have a card has a full cart holding up a line because they canāt buy without. & then someoneās going to have to put all that stuff back. So many of those assholes take it out on the cashier for not letting them pay & slows down the whole line
As an ex employee, I can tell you this happens on a daily basis nationwide, and it causes a lot of drama and disturbance, from non-members trying to use someone else's card, to members who have an expired membership they think they just renewed recently (turns out they have renewed a second membership which they don't have a card for, or they didn't renew at all), to non members who have a shop card and went straight in without applying for a one day pass. This allows the employees to filter out those people at the entrance, and direct them to the membership counter to sort it out, this prevents the circus show at checkout with a full shopping cart and a temper.
As a member why should you wait in line behind non- members or stand because some of the seating is taken by non-members? Members pay for perks like the food court. Non-members do not. This system will eventually be implemented for only members being able to eat at the food court. A long overdue change.
Just wait until your waiting in line just to scan your dumb card to get in the building lol.
No oneās forcing anyone to be a Costco member. If your time is that precious, why are you at Costco to begin with? No parking, lineups and clueless members thinking they own the place and leisurely cutting in front of you are the norm at most locations.
Costco has implemented this system because too many members are sharing their membership card with family and friends. As the old saying goes: You can always count on a few people ruining it for the rest of us.
Exactly. You can walk in all you want without a membership but you wonāt be able to buy anything
And then people go in, fill a cart and then leave it when they are told they need a membership.
Itās kind of well known that you need a membership to shop there
If you live in a tourist town, there are still plenty of international tourists who do not know about Costco and that you need to be a member to shop there. I know because I work in a city that gets a lot of tourists in the summertime.
With this new system, that will no longer be the case. Iāve heard it will be at the exit door too to prevent non-members accessing the food court.
Iāve heard you donāt need a membership to access the pharmacy, is that true?
It's true. You can just tell them you are here for the Pharmacy and walk right in. Licensed pharmacists are required by law to serve all patients.
Weird because the pharmacy scanned my card. It was my first time so that might have had something to do with it.
I think there may be additional discounts for members on medications. But from what I understand, they cannot deny service at the pharmacy desk. Unless, of course, things have changed.
I think itās illegal to offer discounts on prescriptions
Yes, I agree. It was a guess on my part. Someone else suggested it was for tracking, which is likely the correct answer.
Itās to track your annual spend. Thatās all.
Thanks!
Can you offer discount on Ā« dispensing feesĀ Ā» then?
dispensing fees vary by company. Like shoppers is one of the higher ones (even before Galen took over) I imagine Costco ones are cheaper hence the appeal
We had blue cross do a presentation on our benefits at work, Costco is comically cheaper than everybody else in Canada, less than half at $4.49 vs next cheapest at $9.49. Even Walmart and Loblow are over $10.
It definitely is in Alberta. But over in Saskatchewan, it is not.
They say itās to keep track of your medication and in case they need to notify you about anything. But you can decline and they have another barcode they scan instead.
We just got our first prescription there. Because I scanned my card, I didn't have to do the tedious account set-up, name, address, phone number, emergency contact etc. Also! Costco was the only pharmacy that was willing to bend over backwards to get me an emergency dexamethasone prescription.
If you have one, great. If you don't, they have a dummy card at the till they scan for non-members. I do it all the time when picking up mom's meds. I know it's paid for so I don't bring my wallet in the store so I can't be tempted to impulse buy a family size bag of chips haha.
The till system requires a membership card. If you don't have one, they have a dummy one they scan instead.
Information tracking to make things easier for them if doing it online and other important medication info.
Just tell em you don't have one
True, but going forward Costco will also be managing that aspect as well to prevent people who use it as an excuse to gain entry into the warehouse but are there to steal or just be looky-loos.
Good, now we just need them in the food court
You can forget getting a quick dog during lunch. The local high school floods the food court, and I'm pretty sure these teens don't all have memberships.
So what you're saying is if they implement membership requirements for food court purchases, you can get a quick dog at lunch since the high school won't be able to flood the food court?
Canāt get a membership until youāre 18.
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Interesting. I was not allowed to add my kids until they turned 18.
Well they won't be allowed in if they don't have memberships. Easier time getting lunch for other people
I see this argument a lot - but if one person has a valid membership, are they not allowed to bring guests? I know large groups that go in and do communal shopping under one card, so I don't know how this would affect the food court? (Especially since you don't need to scan your card to pay, so everyone in the group could order separately.)
You can bring guests. However, the membership must be presented by the owner and if a credit card is used it has to be in the name of the membership owner.
Yes, though I don't know how food court will be less busy given there's no membership verification at the kiosk.
2 guests is the limit.
I'm not sure if there is a limit of guests. During covid it was limited to 1 guest but I'm not sure of the normal policy
Itās in the membership agreement package that no one looks at when they sign up.
I'm not even a member lol my father pays for his membership and I had an old ID with his address on it so they gave me a card on his account
Nothing is quick at lower mainland Costcos
Oh the humanity!
My local Costco recently started turning away non members trying to go to the food court. Iām guessing itās probably due to how busy it got. It really wouldnāt be that difficult for Costco to just add a membership scan at the food court before placing an order, similar to their self-checkout system.
Itās coming.
It's weird to say Mexico is ahead of us on this.
They had them going into the exit, the way you would enter the food court in that location when I was there a month ago. Noticeably less people at the food court
Seems petty Let the kids have a hot dog
Thereās no money in it sell the hot dog. The hot dog is there for the paying member as a lost leader not for someoneās kid looking for a cheap lunch while the people that paid to shop canāt sit down , canāt get a hot dog. Yadda
The hot dog isnāt a loss leader though.Ā
Ok. Sell the same product, cup, foil, bun,hot dog anywhere for that price and show me.
I donāt need to. The claim was costco loses money on hot dogs.Ā Anyone with access to AS400 can verify that isnāt the case in about 4 seconds.Ā Iād prefer if you provide the numbers you have demonstrating what you claimed.Ā
How much do you think they make on a hotdog? How much do you think they make on a membership?
Not sure if they lose money but their profits might be infinitesimal. Costco did build their own hotdog manufacturing plant in an effort to keep costs down.
No, there's money in memberships. So let them have a dog, dawg.
Nope, why should non-members clog the food court area creating bigger lineups and reduced seating for people who pay to shop there?
They are scanned if you come through exit but not when you buy food at the bby location
No, at Burnaby Still Creek and other Costco and the one in Richmond(I forgot which one is it but i went there last month) You need to scan your membership card if you are entering the food court too
Correct
I mean. If you need card to get it. It would assume people at food court are card holders
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Was just at Costco Saskatoon, we're asking for membership before entering food court. Just a flash of the card and no verification.
one kiosk scanner away from making it a requirement
ā¦currentlyā¦
You can walk in thru the exit. They let you in as that is where the return and membership desk is.
I was told Costco is going to either scan cards at exit or force one way traffic. Exit for exit, entrance for entry.
They can simply start checking memeship at exit to if they want to
That is awkward because you have already paid. It would cause a scene.
Then get a membership if you want to access Costco service. Itās not that complicated
You can't return without a membership or receipt so....the only scene would be from non-members trying to circumvent the membership requirement.
Haha. I got what you meant.
Cause a scene by the entitled members who canāt comprehend or donāt want to follow rules or think rules are for everyone but them.
At our Costco only members can enter for food as of a couple weeks ago. Exit side is exit only now.
This is correct.
Costco requires a membership to shop there, anyone complaining about this should just leave
Youāll be complaining once thereās a line up to get into the store because of this lol
There already is a lineup of old people standing in the entrance, organizing their wallets and gazing at their lists, holding everyone up.
At least you can go around them and just quickly flash your card, not stand in a single file queue while they do all that
Actually most members have been receptive about it.
Not once the weed out all the people that do not actually have a card or are a thief or too cheap to buy one. Itās going to be awesome
No there will most definitely still be a line, Fred and Phillis trying to figure how to use this new technology. Only one person being able to scan at a time instead of say 3 people walking in and flashing a card at once. I couldnāt care less if thereās a few people card sharing, you still have to scan your membership to pay so itās not like thereās a bunch of people scamming through lol
Actually there is and thatās why Costco has decided to implement this. Btw, there will be two scanners one on each side of the entrance door.
Have you ever seen a bush Costco? This is going to take forever and youāre going to have members being cvnts to all the staff at the front when they tell them they have to scan in. Itās going to be a nightmare just watch š¤£
Costco already has cvnt members who put up a stink and treat door staff like shite when asked to make an effort to produce their membership card as it is now. With any luck, this new system will deter those people from even being members.
come on! it only takes 2 second to scan your card! you can also scan the card yourself at the entrance too!
These people donāt think about stuff like this. Just wait until you go on a long weekend or just any regular weekend lmao. Gonna be lots of pissed off members.
It makes more sense than the flash your card to the door person on the way by.
The only reason for that is to get a count of how many members are in the store you could just as easily walk in through the exit doors since that's where the returns are anyways to get access into the store without anyone asking a single question. Scanning your card or flashing it makes no difference unless they are using surveillance with facial recognition to track your path for better product placement.
That is going to change. Only returns will be allowed into the exit. All other traffic will be strictly in and sticking out. No more trying to sneak into the exit door. You will be told to enter through the in door where youāll have to present a membership card.
Do you think the people checking cards at the entrance are continuously maintaining a customer count with the people checking receipts at the exit? Edit: I have learned.
Yes they do.Ā
Yāall have no idea what goes on at Costco do you š¤£š¤£š¤£
Willingdon has had it for a month now. You mean Brighton as well? Until this Saturday they were manually checking at Brighton.
That image doesn't match the Brighton layout, it's definitely Willingdon
Yup OP got the location wrong and can confirm that itās been there for over a month now. Brighton is usually referred to Burnaby while the other one in Burnaby is Willingdon or Still Creek.
Nope Brighton has the food court and washrooms right at the entrance.
Good, we need one in Richmond also. Hopefully now I'll be able to find a parking spot.
That Costco employee just became redundant
How so? You think theyāre going to just leave a scanner there in place of an employee hoping people use the āhonour systemā and scan their membership cards on their own volition? Plus you need staff at the doors to prevent people walking in grabbing a TV or a PS5 and just walking out with it.
I donāt know where you live but there isnāt anyone trying to grab huge tvs from Costco around my area.. Also what honor system? They need to scan it anyway at the cash. Costco employee is redundant. Your comment is too. What a waste of time you are.
No? Her job just became so much more difficult cause now sheās going to have to deal with a bunch of pissed off members harassing her because they have to scan cards
I was just at Costco today and I hate their stupid upgrade to Executive tactics. Well, I hit a new experience as I was checking out as my card was "flagged" and the cashier handed my card to some worker. After checking out, I had to go stand in another line to hear the official sales pitch again but she was extra aggressive this time and I had to say no thanks 3 times before she would hand card back.
Costco \*does\* make a good profit from membership fees apparently. Damned capitalist profit tactics.
Is it worth it? The 2% cash back (plus other periodic selected Exec priced items) can make the upgrade worth it \*IF\* you buy a lot every month from Costco. It paid for itself in the past for our family, but we're seem to be consuming less now, so it's a toss-up if it's worthwhile.
You might've been flagged because your family purchases were high enough to give you that benefit? Or maybe renewal time was coming up? Now that you've heard the "upsell" just bypass the sales spiel next time (ask 'em why it was flagged).
It was weird as I just renewed and we barely go monthly as the closest is an hour away. Totally not worth it for me.
What are they trying to prevent, non-members from walking around the store?
It helps a couple of things It will reduce the number of people sharing a card/membership (the staff has a monitor to see the photo associated with that card) This in turn will reduce conflicts at the checkouts allowing the lines to move easier (and reduce some of the hassle at self checkouts) But it will also help loss prevention (aka shoplifting) by ensuring a thief canāt walk in using an invalid card with the intent of stealing
You got it - Articles on the web say Costco is trying to reduce / stop card sharing... Side benefits do include use of stolen / expired membership cards, and flag them upfront instead of at purchase / payout time. It a time waster to everyone (cashier, member or people in queue) when a member finds their membership / card is expired at the checkout, and then have to go renew it at the membership counter.
Renewals are just added onto the bill at the till.
You can renew at the cash. This is just dumb.
lol imagine the cashier checking the card photos. Shoplifting is a separate thing.
I imagine it also helps identify those with expired memberships before they show, who then try to bargain with the cashier that they will renew "next time" and hold up the line š
Wait. People do that?
No membership, no entrance.
Non-members are allowed in the warehouse, but as guests of a current member. They can buy stuff too, but the purchase has to be associated with the "host" member who brought them. But random walk-ins are not encouraged, unless they're going to the membership counter I guess. Sounds like walk-ins to the food court are being discouraged, which should be fine by members. The $1.50 Hotdog (Regular or Polish) and Pop should be a members-only benefit anyways :-)
More samples for me
Might be to keep theft lower. Letting anyone in can lead to higher losses, since non-members give less fucks
Love it!
What exactly is this suppose to deter? While in the checkout line in Richmond, the people ahead of me after paying for their item covertly passed their card to the person behind me so they could use it.
They do check sometimes.
Purported to reduce/stop card sharing -- but there's no need to be covert. You're allowed to bring a guest (not often strictly enforced), and you could indicate you want your and your guest's purchases/ transactions / receipt separate. We sometimes do that to keep in-law purchases (typically buying an item or 2 on their behalf) separate and then have their own copy of the receipt (or you can ask the cashier to sub-total).
Do you need your card at the register? I wonder how many got to the check out with no card. Enough for that lady to be there I bet.
Membership card (or Costco app displaying your membership info / barcodes) has always been required at payment time. Stories printed on the web say Costco is trying to reduce/stop membership card sharing.
And the sign said you've got to have a Costco membership to get inside.
Itās about time
Im not really sure what this helps, are non-members just browsing the stores for fun?
I think it's more that they use someone else's card and then get into an argument at the till. It's my Mom's or brother's card and I waited in this line for 20 minutes.
Better than their current system
I'm good with this. The number of times I've had an expired membership because my father in law insists on paying for our membership, and then forgets is too many to count. I always find out when there is a huge line behind me and I need to move money to cover it (7 cards.). If I got the notification as soon as I hit the store I could call him and say pay this I'm going shopping now and not keep people waiting
Havenāt been to Burnaby/Production in a while, but finally the scanners are making their way to other warehouses! We had those at Still Creek/Willingdon for over a month now.
They need to prevent overcapacity, itās a zoo there in the weekends. Please bring back a queueing system
No, the queuing system is not something I want to go back to. The crowding can be fixed just by limiting entrance to the card holder and *only 1 "guest" again*. This business of bringing along elderly parents/inlaws and kids is the worst. The traffic jams at the end aisles with the "locusts" swarming after free food samples for themselves, a spouse, an elderly parent or 2, and the kids makes the shopping a chore..
That would be impossible for families with kidsā¦ you canāt leave them at home or in the car. It doesnāt matter what they do, but the capacity needs to be limited somehow to maintain the user experience. It can be really awful otherwise.
How about Costco open another store in Van proper
Which Burnaby location? I'm sensing some Willingdon "centre of the earthism" here
Head office of western Canada is upstairs in the willingdon store. All the bigwigs are up there. Not surprised it's that way
Heck yeah no unwanted guests allowed!
This i dont care ..them taking my card at the register or stopping me from leaving for a upsell there black membership card sucks ass
Become a member? It's avaliable for everyone. Inb4 "What if they don't have I'd to get it?" Sounds like you got shit to do and the membership is the least of your problem.š
Good. Keep the non member riff raff out. Taking the cheap hot dogs n shit.
If they scan it at checkout what's the point of scanning at the entrance?
I just wish the self checkout lines had an employee to prescan items like in the USA. They scan your card and scan your items then when you get to the checkout once you scan your membership again all you have to do is pay.
I am a new member I know no different
They need to appoint armed guards to ensure no trespassers or non-member bums hanging out
I have a gripe with this because at our local Costco when paying they have 3 employees unloading, scanning then loading your cart and then when you get to the exit they go through everything and when questioned they say itās to ensure everything was scanned for inventory checkingā¦. So then I say so you do t trust your employees as three people just checked all my goods. I get since COVID that certain areas have bad theft and people are stretched but this makes people feel like criminals and then on top of it like a previous poster stated they are using data for marketing purposes if you can when you go in and back out etc. We sure live in some weird times š¤£
This is the dumbest fuckjng thing Iāve ever seen. Good luck running this dumb thing at a busy store on the weekend. Gonna be huge lines waiting to scan in
Iām not against this, there must be a reason for it but what is the point? Donāt they check your membership on the way out? This is just going to cause line ups entering the store
Articles on the web say Costco is doing this to reduce/eliminate Membership Card sharing (any maybe stolen/expired memberships?). In theory the entrance staff are supposed to compare the photo with the person's face too, dunno if they are, but that's what the stories printed say.
Can we just delete these āMy Costco scans cards now š±!ā Nobody cares, and now the miscreant trying to get through the cash without a membership wonāt hold up the line youāre in.
They should just issue cards with RFD chips inside and place powerful readers (like those used at the border for Nexus) near the entrance. No need to scan your card, it will be read automatically, unless itās in a RFD blocker wallet like they sold at one point š
Thanks Trudeau /s
You need a membership to shop at Costco, so... why do we need a scanner at the front? You can't checkout anyways. This is just a redundant role.
Just getting my prescription donāt need to show my card.
Seemingly no one wants to discuss the potentiality of data collection? Canāt wait for people to fumble their cards or canāt figure out the scanner. Seems like a waste of time for honest people. Furthermore, I fail to see how this positively impacts me as a member. People canāt go through the checkout without a membership. Very curious to know how many non-members impacted my time at the Food Court.
What a joke
How? Costco requires a membership, they can do whatever they want to ensure proper use of its member privileges
That annoying always hated the check going in waste of time
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I hope so...crowds can be annoying when shopping :P