I come in. Need 3 things. Grab 2. Get a call to get 2 more things. Remember i need one more. Then stand in line with a tower in my hands.
My buddy did this one time. Ended up stuffing a can of tuna into his pocket without thinking and then got arrested because they thought he robbed the convenience store and killed the clerk, but it was actually someone else just in a very similar car. Gotta be careful.
I hate it when I have to commit murder for my tuna.
Bro, it wasn’t him! They looked similar and even drove similar looking cars!
You can’t make those marks without positraction, which was not available on the '64 Buick Skylark
It’s hard to tell if your chances of getting shot by the cops is part of the internet being an echo chamber or if it really is a thing we live with. Regardless, I avoid the interaction with law enforcement and bring the dog in if they happen to be combing the area. An American Bull Terrier on my street named Queenie actually got shot and survived.
When I was a teenager, a cop drawed on me and my friend. As I pulled into my friends driveway the cop turned on his lights and parked behind my car. Didn’t notice until we were getting out, so the cop drawed his pistol, pointed it at us and yelled for us to get back in the car (was “pulled over” for speeding).
I’ve also been woken up by police carrying AR-style rifles during a raid (not for me, for my previous roommate).
Hopefully you’ve made better friends. ✌️
That last one…did you all get SWATTED?
No, roommate was out on bail for a pretty serious crime. Detectives found out some stuff during investigation, so judge revoked bail, and gave police a no-knock warrant to retrieve him.
Robbed the convenience store and killed the clerk…over a can of tuna?
I’m not sure I could call myself a good police officer at that point. I’m not sure I’d think I was cut out for the job of even defining ‘criminals’ at that point.
Sounds like their lawyer was dead on balls accurate.
I guess, took him five tries to pass the bar.
Just wait until he discovers the store no longer provides bags….
No, they’ll still provide bags. But it’s the woven cloth ones that cost $1 per bag. I have about 57 of them at home.
so you’re pretty close to being able shop there and provide all the bags you’ll need without needing to buy any more.
This is how it usually goes:
I have 57 bags at home
I have 0 I remembered to bring
I now have 58 bags
Or alternatively, if you just get charged a bag tax, you can go through self checkout and lie about the bags you used lol
I keep them in my car for this reason. And I also have one that folds up into a little carrying tote that I keep in my purse just in case.
Yeah, that’s a nice idea until I realize I can forget the bags in the car just as easily as I can forget to bring them from home. Fortunately I don’t carry a purse, or I’d forget that in the car too.
For free. I have yet to encounter a retail store that won’t sell you a bag of some kind.
You can grab a cardboard box at checkout.
Not using a basket keeps me from buying a bunch of extra shit I probably don’t need.
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You can go through self checkout and lie at the “How many bags did you use” lol
Wait… That’s illegal
The grocery stores in my country make you scan a barcode on the bag every time. “Luckily” they pay their staff minimum wage and treat them like crap, so you can usually start bagging your stuff and most of the time nobody cares (not that I’d know from experience or anything)
At my grocery store it asks you, “How many bags would you like to purchase?”
And you say 0 because that is always the amount you desire to purchase.
If it was regular check out I might have to purchase them but I certainly would not LIKE to do so.
Me dropping a $3 bottle of kombucha in the parking lot after cleverly avoiding the bag tax.
What’s special about Costco? Speaking as someone who’s never been.
As it pertains to this post, they specialize in selling in bulk.
oh, a straight answer, those are rare
Aah, that’s the context I wanted. Thank you!
They’ve recently tried establishing here in Sweden. Not quite sure where they set up shop but it’s nowhere near where I live, so I’ve not been. Don’t think it’s going great for them. I don’t think bulk groceries is a filled niche here, but I’m also not sure how big that niche even is. As far as I know most people buy groceries for the day, or every couple of days. My roomie and I order in groceries once a week. I think that’s fairly standard.
Might be massive savings in buying in bulk, but then there’s the matter of storing it all too.
Depends on the items. Things that you don’t typically buy on a weekly basis is the draw, then while You’re there you may as well get your stuff for the week.
We don’t typically go to Costco every week, for us it’s a once a month type trip. Things like dog food, toilet paper, paper towels, meat that you can freeze for later (typically the best quality meat around here), cheese, treats, etc.
Most things that are expensive elsewhere are cheaper there and in a larger size.
A lot of Americans don’t realize how small European refrigerators are. And, that storage space, in general, is more limited.
was about to say, the reason bulk sellers don’t really work here is because a lot of people just shop every other day or so, if not straight up every single day.
weekly grocery shopping just sounds absurd to me, so much more effort than just popping by on the way home from work or just living close enough that you can bike there in 5 minutes.
Then what do you do with the random crap you own?
Bulk shopping, and the place is like a giant warehouse. I once made the mistake of picking up a few heavy things and hauling them around the store with me until I could check out. It was painful.
Protip: Just take a box from a shelf. They give them away anyway.
But the better tip is to always take a cart at Costco. And never expect to spend less than $100.
imma just grab a chicken
Unless I know I need a lot of stuff from Costco, I never grab a cart. It forces me to make significantly fewer impulse purchases.
Reasonable strategy.
Mine is to carefully consider the need for “extras”. But because prices are better and returns are easy I lean more towards purchasing than not. I am less inclined to purchase at other stores where prices are higher and returns nor complicated.
I’ve bought too many useless things that I never got around to returning to rely on my willingness to make a second trip for returns, haha!
I buy most of my groceries and gas there so I’m there at least weekly so returns are easy for me…when I remember to bring them with me.
This is just an advertisement for this store. does this place have a hail corporate yet?
It’s just a genuine thing that happened to me. Not everything that mentions a store is an ad.
What’s happening is that when things act as an ad they fulfill the same marketing purpose as a paid advertisement. Just because it happened to you, doesn’t mean talking about it online is not marketing in its effect. But I see where you’re coming from.
This idea is like thinking that people with shirt with huge brand names on them are helping to raise that brand’s awareness level with others. Things can be more than one thing at the same time.
Costco doesn’t even have baskets, at least the one I go to. So it’s either carry by hand or a cart. So I carry by hand, which keeps me from overspending every trip because I can only carry like 4 or 5 things. I buy for myself only anyway so it’s usually enough for the week.
Costco doesn’t have hand baskets anywhere. The word basket in the image refers to the cart.
Reported: I’m in this post and I don’t like it!
Rel af
Idk who that man is beyond I’ve never seen him expressing any emotion other than social anxiety he’s like the socially awkward version of the Terminator
Me: I don’t need a cart
10 minutes later, dragging a basket full to the brim with my arm hanging out of its socket
I’ve done this at Costco myself a number of times.
“Ah, I just need a bag of coffee and a thing of multivitamins. … Oh, we could use some smoked salmon. And, another bottle of Malbec. Maybe some frozen waffles… Ooh, they’re selling Amish-built sheds!”
And, then, I’m either manhandling half the store to the register, or I’m putting the stuff aside somewhere—looking a bit like one of those careless people who can’t be bothered to put stuff back—and making the walk of shame to get a cart.
I’m really annoyed my local grocer got rid of their baskets. They said it was a part of cutting costs.
People would just steal them after the plastic bag ban, grocery store just never replaced them.
boy. mine still has them and they have two sizes of carts. I actually really like the small carts.
Were they using disposables?
