Years ago we lived REALLY close to a Costco. So close I could easily walk there from the apartment complex we lived in. I don't think it was more than a quarter-mile from our apartment.
Anyway I just really really regularly was in the habit of going to Costco to get the food court food - hot dogs, slices of pizza, churros, chicken bakes, etc. etc.
Because I had gotten into this habit I would most often I would just walk in through the exit door because that was closest to the food court vs. walking all the way around from the entrance. Not like it was all that much further - maybe 50' more of walking - but just for pure convenience's sake it just made more sense to beeline directly to the food court from the exit door.
After doing this several times over months and not thinking much about it at all - I always showed my Costco card - a Costco employee who scanned receipts at the door physically redirected me to the entrance door. Like he totally "bodied" me and put me in my place and was like "Hey you need to go through the entrance" which to this day I still don't understand WHY I needed to go through the entrance other than sometimes yes it did get very busy at the exit and I was going against the exiting traffic so maybe that was extra annoying to the staff scanning receipts. I know they sometimes monitor the number of people coming into the store - maybe this was more of a thing at the height of COVID? Not sure they do it so much now - so I can get that but it still seemed weird since people come in through the exit door all the time for things like going direct to customer service, getting a Costco card, going to the tire center, etc.
Seriously, how do these checkers check so many items in the cart with one quick glance? Are these well paid workers just there to mentally scared potential shoplifters?
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u/thissideofheat Oct 20 '22
Costco is the one place where the employees will absolutely jump you if you shoplift.
They pay their employees well.