Costco

We visited here yesterday afternoon as we were already in the area. This is the Costco that Google Express uses for the area and their presence was apparent with their trailer and signs. We think that this particular Costco store is slightly larger than the Costco stores that we have visited in the past. I haven’t noticed an increase in selections and this store even ran out of organic eggs but the aisles may have been wider.

This place is huge and got everything. love the fact that they have many food samples on the weekends and seafood road shows once in a while. they also have really good deals on whole pizza, $ 10 for 18 inch loaded w/​topics.

Whenever I mention «Everett», the first thing the person Im talking to does is smile, and I mean big, goofy smile. The second thing they do is say «Costco!!!». If I didn’t know what costco was I would have thought it was some kind of magical land with lots and lots of chocolate. What’s funny is that, thats kinda true. It’s a magical place with lots and lots of items in bulk, including the chocolate.
I haven’t been to any of the other Costcos in Massachusetts but compared to the one in Texas that I used to go to, this one gives out tons more samples! Unfortunately, this location does not have gas pumps. But it is near an ample amount of other good stores and restaurants. Don’t need something in bulk? Go right across the parking lot to Target. This location has it all! Just like the Costco itself. But in bulk. Now that’s awesome.

The best of ‘murica and the promoter of obesity?
My first visit to Costco was fun. Everything comes in bulk and I’m set for my dinner and lunches for the next month. It’s hard to shop perishable items here if you’re on your own.
I was eyeing my sights on 6 large blue berry muffins but their deal only applies to 12 muffins… and you’re not allowed to buy only 6. There’s no way I can finish 12 muffins on my own in a week without it going bad unless I want to turn chub chub.
The sales left and right are tempting. but really question yourself, can you finish that?
Getting things in bulk undeniably makes people happy. It’s like the food never goes away even after you eat a bit.
Fun afternoon to peruse the aisles trying their samples. Have yet to try their ready made pizzas & ice cream. Heard it was amazing.

Have loved Costco for years. Tried to shop here in Everett for the first time today. Waited for 45 minutes outside the store this morning as other people cued up in the lot. No sign on the door, no message on their phone, no answer at any of the departments. Finally got someone named Chloe at their main number. Guess they were closed due to the weather. Hmmm… The sun was out — finally — and the lot was plowed. Chloe was snippy and rude and I suggested that someone put a sign on the door so that their customers could figure out where they’d go. Wasn’t there on a Monday morning to just poke around. Wish they’d have paid for a day pass to BJs.
Thumbs down.

It’s bigger. It’s badder. It’s cheaper. It’s Costco.
If you don’t want a thousand of what you want, then don’t come here. You know what Costco is. Do not complain about the people that eat too many samples, or attempt to compile them into a meal. Such is the nature of Costco. Done.

The Costco Eye Center is staffed by horrible, unfriendly people. Particularly «Vinny» but they are all horrible at customer service. I will never, ever come here for eyeglasses ever again an I strongly recommend you don’t either.

We come to this Costco often. Its a pretty standard store — busy on weekends and not busy on week nights. We prefer going weeknights because we can go and grab everything we need in a timely fashion and dont have to worry about tons of carts/​people and long lines.
Recently I’ve noticed a lot of the things I love are no longer at costco — quinoa pesto sauce, veggie stir fry…

Love Costco but the front end manager Antonio here is enough to make me not want to go ever agaon. He treats the cashiers who are actually nice and pleasant horribly, berating them and the customers like children. I’ve never seen someone feel so powerful as he did over Controlling who could check out where.
To make it worse we went up to ask a question about a new membership and he didn’t let us finish, thought he knew what we wanted without listening, ripped the card from my mom’s hand to start adding another member (not what we wanted as I’m an adult and wanted info about my own membership). He didn’t provide any of the info I wanted, but if that’s how the store runs maybe he did me a favor. Who wants to be treated like garbage after spending $ 200? Not me.

checking out costcos in different states and this is a standard costco with some east coast specialties.

Only american express for credit cards? Need an upgrade $ 55 membership? Ha yeah OK never going back there bjs is way better they except all my cards

All the cool people take their dates out here for Saturday morning brunch, i mean samples.
Always loved Costco with it’s amazing hot dogs and friendly employees!
Plus the samples! Come on, lunch is on the house since no matter what, buy 5 things and you already spent $ 100!

We finally joined Costco when we had our daughter one year ago, when stocking up on things like paper towels and napkins really started to make sense. I have a mixed opinion on the place so far, though I really want to like it. My thoughts:
PROS: Great deals on electronics, bulk paper products (toilet paper, etc) and health/​beauty products. If you have the space to store dry goods and they carry the one or two specific brands of shampoo or toothpaste that you like, you can get extremely good deals. They also have an awesome liquor store within the warehouse, and a tire center that we haven’t yet used but have heard great things about. Parking is easy, and it’s close to our home in Malden. Also, I was surprised to find out that they carry plenty of organic meat, dairy and produce, which is all that we buy. Easy to feed the baby well from here!
CONS: Really inconvenient hours. Limited selection of brands. MASSIVE quantities that are suitable only if you have a pretty big house. We have a small fridge, and short of buying an extra freezer, we will never be able to stock up on most of the frozen food here. ALSO: things from Costco spoil really, really REALLY quickly. That 3-​pack of organic milk for $ 11? Great deal, until you find that the third bottle always spoils two weeks before the sell-​by date. Same with that chicken salad and bag of rolls you thought would get you lunches for the week. Finally, and probably the worst con of all: the customer service. They make it impossible to return things, even the aforementioned sour milk. Take a place like Trader Joe’s that asks no questions, and Costco ought to do better on this.
Overall, we are glad that we joined — deals like $ 120 for two Sonicare toothbrushes are hard to come by even on Amazon — but we are pretty annoyed at how rude the staff can be and how quickly the food goes bad. If that gets better, I’ll update my review!

THEY GAVE ME SHORT $ 120 ON THE REFUND OF A CAMERA
I used to consider this place not so bad, even though several employees here were very rude on many occasions (mumbling, bitching about their customers and other stuffs), especially at the checkout. Unlike several Costco that I’ve been to in Washington, the return service can be unfriendly. I’d played the dumb Asian until recent incident, in which I was given short $ 120, or 6 x $ 20 dollar bills for the refund on a Nikon D7100:
Around Thursday’s evening, I and my girl went into Costco for some working clothes, grocery as usual. In a crazy moment, I picked up a Nikon D7100. However, once it had been checked out, I realized it was too much for me, so I decided to return it right there to avoid the coming back and saving any further explanation. I was supposed to receive $ 1487 and some changes on the camera. While the cashier was working to process my refund, I was stupid and checked out my game on mobile device (since I was in a COC clan war and they wanted my participation and I only had 40 secs left to attack); another reason was my trust in Costco (I’ve been their loyal membership for the past 4 – 5 years approximately).
Then the Cashier (I think her name is Wendy) gave me the cash and I asked her if I could get large bills, like 14 x $ 100 instead of all $ 20 but she told me it’s not possible. She also told me to recount the money but she left in a hurry for something else. A guy came in to replace her post. While he was working the line, we were standing at the other end of the table counting the bills. There were 2 x $ 500 blocks/​stacks with rubber bands holding ($ 20 dollar bills) and the rest $ 487 plus some changes (mainly $ 20 dollar bills). When my girlfriend was counting the last stack of $ 500, we were shock to realize the missing of $ 120 or 6 x $ 20 dollar bills. We counted it several times before calling the Costco’s employee there to help.
As a result, one of their managers came in to check, then he left to discuss something in the back, then he asked several times if we had walked away in a pushy tone. After we repeatedly confirm our problem, he went to bring out the original cashier. Here is the FUN part:
— Wendy, our original cashier claimed we had walked away
— She believed she had counted the money correctly, twice in front of me — BUT how could she’d accomplished this around 1 – 2 minutes (around the best possible time I was on my phone). Moreover, «she was extremely considerate to arrange 3 portions of the refund, with rubbers on 2 500 stacks.
— The manager there seemed to not believe our story, but he did not ask the employees standing at the entrance, or the guy substituting Wendy, or the camera. He kept telling us they had all the number in their system, we might be making an error or if we considered ourselves making an error. But there was no mark on our receipt, there was no support in his theory that we had walk out except their presumption. Somehow, it’s our goddamn fault. Although Costco has my contact, he still inquired my info, such as phone number. It’s both hypocrite and funny. Before we left, I offered him to check us if need but he refused. Thanks God we did not carry much cash on us at the moment lol.
In the end, we got home with all our money back but extremely unhappy. The idea of something wrong with that «victimized» cashier is still hovering in my head.

Saturday midday should have more staff – things were a bit messy (I didn’t help when I decided I didn’t need what I grabbed and put it in a random spot because the store is SO huge and I didn’t want to walk back) and there was quite a line for food and free samples.
That being said, you can get almost everything you need in too much abudence. Buy a freezer.

Ooof! I love Costco & if you read patiently or care I’ll tell you why.
1)Great merchandise. Being in grad school (graduating in December– what! what!) I need to print massive color pages for my projects. I buy my HP 8500 series printer ink in bulk for about $ 99. It costs that much for 2 separate inks at Staples. I also buy all of electronics here– TV’s, Printers (I have 3) and the 3 pack scan disks.
2)Value pack of sports bras. We ladies can never have enough in all the pretty colors!
3)Food/snacks! Great for buying for work or school functions or stocking up in bulk items for your own house. They have a better, fresher selection of groceries than BJ’s does.
4)Magazines are cheaper. I never have time to read them once I buy them but I love that they’re cheaper than CVS, Barnes & Noble, etc.
5)Free samples. Consume enough of these hot, tasty treats and you won’t have to worry about dinner that night.
I can’t think of anything else, plus I have to log off, but I’ll write an update as my list of reasons continues to grow. Happy shopping.

Be still my beating heart …
How can you not love Costco? Buying non perishables in bulk is about as American as mandatory jury duty. All kidding aside, this review is specifically for the tire center.
I came in after I did some serious side wall damage parallel parking my car. The entire drive over I was praying that my tire wouldn’t pop. I called beforehand and they guaranteed that they had the Michelins I wanted and it was on sale. I’m not about to question a good thing. After pulling in and having the guy examine the damage and my tread wear, he told me I didn’t need new tires. Apparently I have alignment issues and some cosmetic damage. Being a young female with no knowledge of vehicles I’m used to getting taken advantage of when it comes to fixing my car. I found the guys here super friendly and honest. I came willing to pay whatever it would take to change all 4 tires but instead they spent a good 30 minutes teaching me Tires 101 and reassuring me. Yes I am a spaz when it comes to my car. It’s so rare to see such honesty in the auto industry. Thank you Costco tire crew!

I think this annotated image says most of it:
But I’ll add some color about my experience returning an item here.
I arrived and stood with my return (fireproof safe I had in a cart) below the sign that says «merchandise returns». I waited about 10 minutes while 3 other groups of customers stood behind me in line. I noticed three other groups of customers line up in front of the membership sign. I figured they were there for membership issues, but it looked an awful lot like they were returning items.
And I was right. That’s when I learned the return staff at Costco matches the Masshole-​ry of many of the customers I’ve encountered at this store. (Once, I went to get an empty cart near the entrance close to closing time on a weekday night when the place was nearly empty, and a guy yelled that was HIS cart. He followed me around the store and made rude comments, even though I let him take the cart that was sitting next to hundreds of other empty ones.)
I asked the cashier in front of me (within arm’s reach) if I was standing in the right place for a return. She told me there was only one line and I was standing in the wrong place. I asked her why she hadn’t told me that when I arrived or some other time in the prior 10 minutes, and she told me she had been very busy. (Indeed, she was — she and the other cashier were working very hard on a return of perhaps 20 bottles of vitamins the entire time and the computer did not appear to be cooperating, even when 2 people stared at it.)
So, I got in line near the membership sign instead behind two groups of customers who had arrived well after I did. (Apparently membership is not even at this desk despite the giant sign. Instead, it is inside the store entrance, not even within sight of this desk. God help you if you are looking for membership!)
Around that time, the front end supervisor arrived. I asked her why the lines were so confusing. She said that she had been asking her manager (s) to move the signs for months and it hadn’t been done. She was frustrated. At this point, there were perhaps 8 – 10 groups of looking to return items, and they were lined up all over the place. I suggested that she help people figure out where to stand, and to her credit, she did. (But within a few minutes, people started following the signs again and were lined up in the wrong place.)
This is the area of the store where there were two people checking receipts of people who are leaving, to make sure you didn’t steal anything in the alley without any goods in it between the cash registers and the door. They noticed the mess of people waiting around and did absolutely nothing to help direct traffic.
At last, I made it to the front of the line. A woman in a blazer (blonde hair in the photo) without a name tag helped me. She was completely non-​verbal. I handed her my receipt and stood there with the safe in my cart. She then stuck her hand out at me again. After asking what she wanted, she requested my membership card. It felt to me like she was struggling to even ask that simple question and that sticking her hand at me would suffice.
She then asked what was in the box. I told her it was the safe that was the single item on the receipt she was looking at. She reached over the counter and tried to open the flaps of the box. I helped her. (I also would have been glad to move the cart over to where she could reach it, but she didn’t ask.) She stood on her tip toes and rapped on the safe inside, perhaps checking that it was made out of metal. She didn’t check anything else.
«You want this back on your card?» she asked. I did want it back on my card. She handed me a receipt and that was it. No more or less talking.
Meanwhile, I noticed the line forming again in front of the «merchandise returns» sign, and the same cashier who told me that I was not standing in the proper single line for returns started helping people who were waiting in that new line. When I was there with a line behind me, she didn’t offer to help me out.
So, in addition to the cluster of not knowing where to actually go to return my item, I had to have a Masshole of a woman interact with me. She was in a nasty mood and clearly did not want to be helping shlubs like me. All in all, 18 minutes of waiting for a transaction that ultimately took about a minute to finish up. (Granted, some others cut ahead of me in line and had shorter waits.)
(Oh, and as I was checking out with stuff I purchased, I saw a new line opening up, which was sorely needed. But the manager — Antonio I think — who set up the cashier apparently walked the cashier over, took away her trash can that she needed, and walked away without fully getting the cashier set up. She looked at him like, «huh?» and was asking him to come back, but he simply walked away and she wasn’t able to open her line. WTF.)

wholesale ware house sells
food, liquor, Home Goods & appliances in bulk.
the food is a great deal, if you can
use that much of it at a time.
I find super savings in purchasing my produce.
best deal: the food court.
A large, hand dipped, fresh chocolate
ice cream bar with nuts is only $ 1.50…joy!

Don’t get me wrong, I love Costco. This review is strictly for their café.
The café is extremely unsanitary. I hate the straw dispensers. Straws are unwrapped, and you have to press down on the dispenser for a straw to come out. Problem is, a million people probably touch the dispenser, and your straw lands on their area everyone touches.
The tables are always messy with food. I never see anyone cleaning the tables.
When I put mustard on my hot dog, the dispenser was so close to my hot dog, it was almost touching it. The condiment dispensers are also unsanitary, and there’s little space to put condiments on your food.
When I went to get a drink, there was soda all over the table by the soda machines.