I just signed up for Costco and visited the store for the first time. I’m a little disappointed. Everything there is really unhealthy. They have a full bread aisle, but no whole wheat bread. I feel like the store is 1% produce, 69% highly processed food, 30% objects.
Lots of types of groceries are missing. I overheard two other parties saying they would go to Walmart afterwards, to get stuff they couldn’t find at Costco.
Everything there is such a disorganized mess. Most of the aisles are incoherent.
What’s with the baggers? Why would they have bag boys but no bags? Do all Costco stores have no bags? I don’t need an entire worker just to put my stuff back in the cart.
They could totally prioritize more healthy options, they go through their inventory fast enough for it to not be a problem finding fresh groceries
That said, the other points are part of why Costco’s model works. They have a limited number of items at a time, priced much lower than other similar stores, and they have a fixed max profit that they allow themselves to make on them. The kirkland branded stuff is intended to be as good as the other brands in quality, and all the items are supposedly selected to be “good”
So people show up often to see what new items they’re currently carrying and grab the things that they need. For a lot of people, the membership is worth it. Then they might go to other stores for any remaining items they couldn’t find at Costco
Agreed. There’s a general pattern to some of it, but I usually wander through most of the aisles as I work my way through