Costco With a Newbie
A couple friend of mine and Husband’s call us from time to time to go shopping at Costco. They don’t have a membership, so they tag along when I go and use my membership. Today is one such day.
Friend and I are putting on a little Christmas shindig and we need some supplies so we thought today would be a good day for Costco. I am waiting for her to arrive at my house, which gives me ample time to consider the last time she and I went to Costco.
It wasn’t “she and I” at all. Her husband came with me.
They were throwing a birthday party but she wound up having to work on the day I was planning to go to Costco. Her husband showed up with a list of everything he was supposed to buy. We arrived at Costco, and I asked if he wanted to walk around together, or separate and meet at the DVDs in half an hour. He opted for separating, so I went about my shopping.
About twenty minutes later, he finds me in the fresh veggies, and is like, “Hey! There you are!”
“Wow,” I said. “Did you already get everything?”
“No.” At which point I noticed his cart was empty.
“Dude, did you get… anything?”
At this point, I realized there was a different look in his eyes than I am accustomed to seeing:
Fear. Confusion. Anxiety.
“Where is everything?” he said. “I just keep walking around! This place is crazy!”
Needless to say, I laughed. A lot. Then I helped him find everything he needed (in seriously, like ten minutes flat, and that includes navigating those random customers who push around the big dolly laden with 500 gazillion cans of soda and one thing of water), and then proceeded to ridicule him the rest of the shopping excursion, complete with mimicking.
On that note, I’m looking forward to today’s venture.
The Way of Costco.
Who knew it could be so daunting?
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Hey, don’t mock him! I was the same way my first time. And, when we got back to the US after several years in Mauritania, I was like that in Safeway.
I didn’t know there were people in America who didn’t have Costco cards. I thought it was required. Like driver’s licenses. And car insurance.
Awesome.
Next week you can teach the Zen of Sam’s Club.
I’m always that way at the “other” Albertson’s, and now I’m that way at my Albertson’s because they just remodeled it. It takes me an hour to find a couple of items.
Still, I could find my way around Costco with my eyes closed.
When my first two were very little I used to go to Costco just for the wandering factor. And the free snacks.