Costco makes little to no profit from sales and everything is bought in bulk / on discount so the prices are ridiculously cheap, Costco will literally save you hundreds if not thousands of dollars a year. All their profits come from memberships so their sole goal is to keep you as happy as possible. As a result of this revolutionary business model, the only thing they're required to focus on is keeping prices as low as possible while keeping quality as high as possible. I've literally never met a person who's dropped their Costco membership lol.
well my parents canceled theirs, as soon as they could... but, to be fair, we live in Iceland, and the only Costco we have here doesnt have good prices and the selection of products wasnt really that great
@@nidalenieve Fair enough, I've only ever been to American ones, I could imagine their business model being incompatible with how the food market tends to operate in most countries. North American countries are in a unique position that lends itself well to the business model. Although to my knowledge the UK, Japan, and South Korea also have managed to make it work out great somehow despite their less than ideal global food market locations.
My favourite Costco story is how one of the founders and at the time CEO (Jim Sinegal) was questioned about raising the price of the hotdog, his response was "If you raise the price of the effing hot dog, I will kill you. Figure it out." Their solution was to stop buying hotdogs from their current supplier and build a factory to make their own Kirkland brand hotdogs in Los Angeles and later a second in Chicago.
It's because he knows that of you go there for cheap food or a cheap chicken you are likely to buy all sorts of stuff. You raise those prices and many people would not even bother for the food which means that is less people hitting the store. They would rather lose money on that stuff which is a tax write off by the way, than raise it, lose potential customers. Good business model.
Costco employee here. I showed this to a group of my friends at work, and they all thought this was hilarious. Even the GM cracked up at the “the back” joke.
The co-founder of the company threatened the CEO over the hot dog price. “If you raise the [price of the] effing hot dog, I will kill you. Figure it out." -Jim Sinegal
@@Vmac1394 Reasonable demands from reasonable people. I almost forced into my contract for wages that sodas be provided and capped at $0.25 per can. $0.25 is the main office price at the company I work for, but working down the road in another building they wanted double (granted, excess profits funded our picnics and parties, but still...). Since I now work on another area (at the whims of a different seller, its actually the government ran in that case) they are $1/can... I can get 4 for the price of one if I fill my backpack up for like $2 to $3 and be good for the week!
@@jimmycon2001 probably the one you ate had gone bad or something. had gotten that way too many times to count happens to me whenever i go to a foodcourt. i am like an involuntary bad food magnet.
It does make sense if you think of it. If they're gonna be selling bulk trays of ground beef, minced pork, chicken breasts, frankfurters, sausages, steaks, etc. under the Kirkland home label, they might as well have their own meatworks. And some of those sausages go to the cafeteria to make those hot dogs.
I used to go to Costco with my mom when I was younger and I went there so many times that one day when I was around 9 or 10 a old dude came up to me and said he basically saw me grow up when I went to Costco with my mom cause he worked at the front gate, kind of cool actually.
Fun facts about Costco food: - The price of the hot dog has been the same ever since it was added to the menu about 40 years ago - The pizza will literally be the same in every Costco, they make it by machine so there is as little variation as possible. - Nearly all of the food Costco sells at the food court is sold at a loss, they make way more than enough from memberships to cover it
As a citizen of a non-Costco country, this learning experience gave me the feeling that Boris Yeltsin must have felt when he visited that grocery store in the USA.
One time my family was coming home from a holiday and we needed to re-stock our fridge, so we went to Costco. It was supposed to be a simple ‘Go in, get food, get out.’ Deal, right? We came in looking for the needed stuff, came out with more food then was strictly reasonable, four giant bloody hotdogs and a paper shredder.
We once went in to get paper plates and some simple decorations for a house warming party.... Ended up buying so much we had to cram every single cm^3 of the family hatchback with random shit and we still needed 2 trips
As a Costco employee, they trained us to treat the members with such respect and they're basically our only source of income, we only make money from Food Court and Memberships, we are also instructed to call the shoppers members not customers
@@ryanhalien8468 in-brand meat supply to dampen the prices somewhat. That and the cofounder had promises of violence and other pleasantries to all whom who would even consider raising the prices of the hotdogs, so that probably chilled any considerations of raising prices.
Every single Costco that I've been in/seen has the same layout, electronics in the front, right passed the registers, passed the furniture into the fruit section and walk-in freezer with the bakery next door where you keep walking to find the meat section of the store before you get to the aisles of freezers and canned food which you can then find the walk-in fridge where all of the milk is stored. Then if you wrap around to the back corner through the paper towel aisle, you walk along a shelved wall with snacks and sodas all the way until you hit the pharmacy where you end up right by the registers.
You didn’t mention the cold room, where they store a bunch of food that needs to be kept cool but not as cool as like a refrigerator so there’s just this huge room that’s cold
As a Costco employee, one of the introductory videos they show us is about where products are placed in the store. Have you ever went shopping at Costco, bought an item, used said item, and thought, "I liked this item, let me go back and buy it again next time we go to Costco." And then you go down the isle where you picked it up and it isn't there, but in a different isle? They do that so you can walk around the store more so you can "view Costco's variety of products available" (As the training video told me). When in reality they are forcing you to walk around each and every isle searching for this one item, and as you go down every isle you will impulse buy other random items and before you find your one item you were looking for you now have six different items that wasn't even on your shopping list is now in your cart! It is genius really. However there are two sides to every story and sometimes it can backfire. I remember when I was a child sick with a cold and we were out of NyQuil. So my Dad and Sister went to Costco to buy milk and NyQuil for me. They came home with every item imaginable EXCEPT milk or my NyQuil! Just shows how sometimes people can be a little too distracted searching for items. Lol
It's like walking into an SCP 3007 location but this one is much more pleasant and the staffs aren't faceless creatures but normal human being like you.
I think thats another way of saving money. There's only one costco with hundreds of entrances around the planet. The door is actually a wormhole or some other scifi nonsense. Stepping through takes you to the only costco in existence.
A coworker of mine was in a Costco when his wife went into labor, and the Costco staff, on their own accord, realized something was wrong by how they were acting as they started to leave the store, and recognized it as a medical issue. They immediately brought a wheel chair over, offered to call an ambulance, and essentially did everything they could to help. They pushed her out while he ran to get their car. They cleaned up the mess that was made, and kept it all discrete. Whole thing took like 5 minutes to get her out safely. Then, a few weeks later, they got a letter in the mail from Costco that included, among other things, a honorary Employee ID card for the little guy, with his name. Sure, they are obviously wanting to ensure safety in their store for legal reasons, however this seems above and beyond what I would expect. Hell at Walmart they probably would have loaded her into a shopping cart and dumped her on the curb.
they are ready for medical emergency's because 90% of people who shop there are over the age of 60 XD my costco has a dedicated medic that patrols the isles.
Most Costco's I've been to also have pharmacies in the stores too with very cheap medication, so they also probably have some semi qualified medical staff on hand if they can also dish out prescription drugs
I can confirm that all Costco workers were actually previous shoppers who were never able to find a way out. After a week of wandering the endless warehouse, the manager came up to me, gave me a shirt and told me to restock the peanut butter. It’s been ten years, and I still have no idea where the peanut butter is. Pls help
The pizza at Costco is pure, unadulterated ambrosia. A large pizza, sprinkled with packeted Parmesan cheese and ground pepper, paired with a purple smoothie. My god, you feel like a king.
Idk if if it’s like that everywhere but where we go, at the food court, for 10$ max, i had so much food that I could have had lunch for the next day with what i didn’t eat and it would have been very decent
As an American, I would like to say that may have been the finest analysis of the Costco Eatery I've ever heard. You distilled it down to its essence. It truly is a blessing from the Wholesale Gods as recompense for trials overcome.
I've recently become a Costco employee, and not only are they amazing for customers, but they're WONDERFUL to work for. Most retail around my place start you at $10/hr and no benefits. Costco (here, at least) gives $18/hr, health care, paid vacation, mandatory breaks. Like... I am in *shock* after coming from a job where I would, on occasion, have to work 12-hour days with no breaks at minimum wage. Costco treats employees like *people* instead of replaceable cogs. Costco is what big businesses SHOULD be, right down to being able to bulk buy entirely unreasonable amounts of cheese if you so desire. Also the part about things spawning into existence is too true. Things just show up and I don't know if any of us are entirely sure where they come from.
Costco is literally the only store my wife can tell me we are going to for an hour on a Sunday and I'm not bummed out. I push the cart around load some 20-pound boxes of fruit and cooking oil, get 2 pairs of reasonably priced pants all while people give me free snacks. I get to look at a 3-ton car jack I didn't know I needed and at the end, I get a hot dog and gas that's cheaper than anywhere else in the city. Oh and my mother-in-law gets a rottisery chicken that she didn't want but it's five dollars so she is gonna buy it anyway, the whole family gets chicken sandwiches for 2 days. If you hate shopping, Costco makes it as painless as possible.
its the parking lot that is crazy at Costco with how busy the place can get, with how many people they tightly pack in, and with how people stand and talk. Don’t get me started on the crazies at the gas station with putting their driver side gas tank on a passenger side pump, and snaking over their car. When they stand by their tank they block the path for other cars to leave without running them over. Its more of organized chaos which is nice since its a lot of people, but it moves fast for asiles and checkout.
I have ptsd from Costco One summer week, me and my sister took a road trip in an RV from colorado to Washington state. Every stop we made was a Costco. We would usually just get gas, but sometimes we just went into the Costco just because. They didn’t even let me go get samples or anything. They just took us in, walked around for a few minutes, and took us back to the RV. They did this because they “wanted to see how this Costco differs from others”. Towards the end of the trip, I see my Grammie holding a map with pinpoints with the Costco logo on the top. We stopped at every single Costco from Colorado to Washington just “because”. Hot dogs slap doe. Ngl.
This world is rapidly passing away and I hope that you repent and take time to change before all out disaster occurs! Belief in messiah alone is not enough to grant you salvation - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36) if you believed in Messiah you would be following His commands as best as you could. If you are not a follower of Messiah I would highly recommend becoming one. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life - Revelation 3:20. Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years going back to Babylon and before, C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate once you start a relationship with God. Can't get a response from God? Fasting can help increase your perception and prayer can help initiate events. God will ignore you if your prayer does not align with His purpose (James 4:3) or if you are approaching Him when "unclean" (Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 59:2, Micah 3:4). Stop eating food sacrificed to idols (McDonald's, Wendy's etc) stop glorifying yourself on social media or making other images of yourself (Second Commandment), stop gossiping about other people, stop watching obscene content etc. Have a blessed day!
One of the scariest moments in my life was being in a Costco when an earthquake hit. Yes, I live in California where we are accustomed to swaying buildings and reminded at nausea what to do during an earthquake. But no one thought to train us on what to do during an earthquake in Costco. Duck and cover drills do not applied when there are tons of product stacked as high as the rattling ceiling and swaying lamps!😱
Costco always gave me a feeling of... small. I always felt small every time I wandered into that store. The Costco I visited had literal garage doors for entrances, plus a gas station.
A few notes, as someone who's worked with Costco for a year and a half and counting: Yeah I've been acquainted with the company for a while, my dad has worked there since 1999, so I was kinda roped in cus I thought I'd be seasonal summers only but they were so desperate for night merch they got me on part time immediately haha Anyways, as for the order to the chaos; the "fence" as we call it, is that line of products (usually on sale) that are put out as the highlight items. Other sales are on endcaps which is those products at the start or end of an aisle. I've observed other Costco Warehouses and employees don't get too many questions from members about products getting moved but oh man I get at least 10 a shift, weekends are even higher. And yes people complain about stuff being moved a lot Well in addition to the "treasure hunt" stuff kinda falls out of season, and there's not a high chance of someone who wants something like Hot Cocoa in Spring or a inflatable pool in winter. There's other examples too, but we have to keep bays (not shelves, no. Everything is in bulk) stacked to a certain height (usually like shoulder height) depending on weight and quantity. Although the location I work at has some pretty cruddy members (but tbh I think most are just having a stressful life or something, I don't hold anything against them, I'm a little more concerned about employees being unnecessarily mean towards others tbh) I still enjoy stocking the store at night. I know where a lot of products are, but not all of them. Mostly the general areas of them. But I can 99% of the time know where something is if I'm shown a photo, because with all the products I honestly can't remember names haha. Your best bet is asking upfront to a supervisor. Great place to shop, employee benefits are great, my personal experiences might differ depending on region, but its a really good job that's helping me settle college funds and housing.
The “security guard” you mentioned, is just another employee. They also don’t look at the photo, they’re there to get a physical count of every membership card that enters the building with a little tally clicker. Every 30 min they report that number and then management can gauge how busy the business might get in the next few minuets. They do sometimes check your photo at the register though, if you get a real stickler.
5:05 I wholeheartedly agree. As a child I remember always getting so excited to go to Costco for the sole purpose of aggravating all the people giving out samples to feed me.
Fun fact: I remember me and my brother having a walkie talkie. We went into it in Costco. The distance was able to interfere with the connection. Costco is the other side of IKEA. The third class Walmart. It is just huge. Words can’t describe the feeling of going into a Costco. I went into one in Hawaii. The place was even more massive than the one in my hometown. These things are so huge you probably wouldn’t even find the bathroom. And the exits and entrances are so huge. You could fit an entire train through there, it’s like a tunnel. My local Costco is attached to a tire shop, so when I walkout I always see the same weird tire brand mascot and some weird flyers. Good times all around. And once in a blue moon. You might get a Churro. One of the tastiest things at the food court. Also their sodas are massive. Bigger than the average McDonald’s cup. Like they said Super Size me, but do it twice. 25/10 experience, would go there again just for the scenery of seeing people walk around. It’s most fascinating experience and would highly recommend on anyone who can find one.
the largest costco in the world is like a 20-minute drive from where i live and it is fucking massive. the one in my hometown is big but this one takes it another level
"Whenever I went to Costco when I was younger, I would always be on my very best behavior, because if I was, I would get a chocolate shake. Once my parents forgot about our little deal we had and I flipped out " - Scooby Doo
As a former refrigeration tech for Costco I have been INSIDE those freezers, yes they are fucking HUGE inside, bigger than the average apartment, infact possibly bigger than the average house on the inside. The Evaporators (basically the giant fans that make them cold) are the size of a Toyota Corolla and weight around 1300lbs, believe me, inside of those freezers are not fun to be in and even worse than that is getting on a scissor lift to go up and work on those evaporators.
That makes me think of cheap rent... They can't kick members out right? I'm used to the cold, wear layers of coveralls and stop complaining your water glass busted because the liquid froze, just drink it faster and don't leave it out overnight by your bed.
As someone that has been going to Costco way back when it was called The Price Club, I practically grew up at Costco. Your analysis was spot on. Cant believe you didn't mention that the hotdog with a fountain drink is only a buck fifty which is the exact same price it was in 1986. Crazy!
How could he make this video and not mention “The Fridge”? That big produce area where you all of a sudden enter into freezing temperatures. That was one of the most memorable things as a kid!
A cool thing about the Costco food court is that one space of the menu (usually on the far right) is a blank space that they put regional foods on, like here in Canada you can get poutine at Costco and it slaps.
Personally, my favorite location of any Costco's are the giant walk-in fridges where they keep some of the fruits and vegetables. Escaping the California heat in one of those is pure euphoria.
This guy is hillarious, I binge watched all his videos and I've just been checking his page every now and then to see if there's another upload (obligatory "keep up the good work")
I never went into a Costco personally, but the closest thing from Costco is Sam's Club, which is basically just a carbon copy of Costco, but with way more security.
I live right next to a Costco basically and my parents still decide to go to Sam's club, I think the main reason is (assuming Costco doesn't have this), if you spend enough at Sam's you can use their reward points to pay off the card
I felt when he said there are no bad memories of costco, went there for years and LOOKED FORWARD TO IT, as a child, shopping FOR FOOD, they made it FUN, madlads
I cannot tell you how many times I've been asked if we have something "in the back" while working at Costco. Some people don't understand the concept of wholesale warehouses lol.
Costco feels like The Backrooms. The liminal space, endless items everywhere, and that feeling of exploring a space that could plausibly exist, but simply dosen't.
@@ninthdoctor7918 it is massive like the backrooms. I can't argue with that. But because there isn't a feeling of isolation, it doesn't feel like a liminal space. Hotel corridors late at night feel more that way.
3:59 this is actually a common strategy employed by a lot of stores in the US. We never put commonly purchased items up front they are always in the back and make it a pathway to navigate the entire store before finding the checkout area. AutoZone, harbor freight, Walmart, and especially sams club/Costco (basically competing but similar stores).
I’m pretty sure Costco ended up saving my family’s bacon. In 2008 my parents had to file for bankruptcy and we had to move to an entirely new state. I don’t know if the rule ended up changing, but you used to be able to walk to the eating area through the exit doors and buy food as long as you didn’t try to force your way through the cash lanes. My family ended up eating there a lot, since the food was cheap and relatively good for what it was. Been shopping there ever since.
Never had a bad memory with Costco, and because of this video all of those vague memories of me playing around that kid playset and eating that large ass pizza is coming back to me.
I go to my Costco about once a month. I swear, I can never leave that store with no less than $350 worth of stuff in my oversized shopping cart. Also, if there is a cool item you think you need, if you don’t buy it within 2 days, it will be sold out and/or discontinued if you think you can wait a week.
Joseppi’s accent makes everything more funny Edit: I have a Costco near me and it is near to ikea. Speaking of ikea joseppi should do an ikea in a nutshells
I recently had my first costco experience as an european (who actually discovered through this video that there are costcos in his country). And it truly was impressive, I'd never seen sizes and packages like that, like I could buy 24 bottles of 500mL of sparkling water, that makes no sense. The whole membership thing was pretty weird too. Lastly I made the mistake of buying cake to try it out, I'm pretty sure I developped diabetes instantly especially considering I almost only eat vegetables and bread
Just stumbled across this video now… I’ve worked at Costco for almost a year and I can not describe how accurate this is. We get a lot of weird shit that shows up and is then just gone in a week and we just accept that. Keep up the great work man
The stores are intentionally built to have the big rotisserie in the back so people will naturally make a b line for the $5.99 chickens, then snake their way down the aisles they skipped over on the first trip because why not browse a bit. You might find a 20 pound single hershey bar for $15.
In a horse shoe shape starting with majors (big tv’s, jewellery, tech) then all house and random stuff on the right, fresh food at the top, groceries on the other side of the horse shoe and clothes and more random stuff in the middle
Here's a real-life hack: You can go in, walk through an empty register and find yourself in the food court. If you're real ballsy you don't even need to be a member to buy the hot food
0:26 the squid game music has me dead Don't forget their genious marketing strategy of putting all the essentials in the back of the store so you get caught up and buy usless extras on the way there Overall, perfect video and 100% accurate
@@hydra-1 mostly groceries like milk and cereal and stuff, but I did get like three containers of their blueberry muffins because good lord are these things the best
@@manwithaplan2001 you should try there chicken burgers there they are a taste of heaven (it's also time efficient to make considering all you need to do is microwave it for 1min 30sec)
Hey I work there :) Also, at least at my Costco, the entry doorman is less for security and more to make sure people _have_ a membership as well as counting the number of memberships that come through the door. They don't usually check each membership individually as that would slow entry traffic to a crawl, they just need to visually see the membership card as someone enters. They actually get a lot of grief from people who somehow get offended when asked to show their membership??? They're not usually allowed to stop you if you blow past them without showing membership, but at the registers they can't ring you up without a membership card, like the register itself won't accept scans until it scans a membership so yeah.
@@whom382 Well obviously we let people use pharmacy and optician without a membership, but the fact still stands you won't be able to buy anything else in the store without one. And they count memberships, noting the number every 30 minutes. Helps us anticipate how busy it is/is going to be.
what the do is in 20 years invent a growth ray and a time machine they go back to modern times and use the growth ray on the nutshell causing it to grow big enough for the store then they will move the store into the nutshell
It is impossible to escape Costco without spending over $100 because you see one item you need a mile and a half away from your last one and on your way there you spot something you never knew you needed but feel like you do now because the free sample was good or because something you have never seen In you life just looks like it would taste good.
I went into this video like “ive never been in a Costco because I always go to Sam’s” and then realized that literally every bit of footage within that store is indistinguishable from the inside of a Sam’s.
In my experience, sam's has more variety, smaller bulks, better tasting fruits, less expesnive but good enough meats, a bit more expensive in general, more brand products. Also Costco's food court is better, customer service is better, employees seem happier than Sam's
Bro now I don't even know anymore. I've been to too many Costcos and Sam's Clubs that every time I recall from memory, I might be thinking of Sam's Club rather that Costco or vise versa. Also Sam's Club food court is ass. Fight me.
@@Stickman_Productions bet I will! Sams club food court hits everytime! On my way to a costco right now actually, so Ill get back to thos to either walk back, or with a bat.
Sam's Club is Costco but literally worse in every conceivable way. 🤷 It's very much the shitty corporate knock-off you'd expect from as shitty and soulless a company as Walmart. They are very similar in concept but absolutely WORLD'S apart in quality and execution.
"I always end up leaving with a singular rotisserie chicken and a houseplant" why the fuck is this so relatable (Update, I just bought a houseplant and now I am on a quest to get a singular lemon pepper rotisserie chicken.)
As an employee of costco, it's really one of the best stores to not only buy but benefit from. Saving money on items that are in packs and finding unique products is something you really can't get anywhere by my knowledge and working there is truly the BEST. Also what's funny is when members ask how stuff moves from on place to another/new items placed almost everyday becomes being common question.
Costco makes little to no profit from sales and everything is bought in bulk / on discount so the prices are ridiculously cheap, Costco will literally save you hundreds if not thousands of dollars a year. All their profits come from memberships so their sole goal is to keep you as happy as possible. As a result of this revolutionary business model, the only thing they're required to focus on is keeping prices as low as possible while keeping quality as high as possible. I've literally never met a person who's dropped their Costco membership lol.
well my parents canceled theirs, as soon as they could...
but, to be fair, we live in Iceland, and the only Costco we have here doesnt have good prices and the selection of products wasnt really that great
@@nidalenieve Fair enough, I've only ever been to American ones, I could imagine their business model being incompatible with how the food market tends to operate in most countries. North American countries are in a unique position that lends itself well to the business model. Although to my knowledge the UK, Japan, and South Korea also have managed to make it work out great somehow despite their less than ideal global food market locations.
I buy my beer there every time I go to the city. It’s 5$ cheaper than my towns stores
@Twall sooo did you just not see the part where he said they get a least a little profit and they get money from memberships?
@Twall He so visibly stated that their primary profit is made through the income of the memberships or did your brain not allow you to get so far.
My favourite Costco story is how one of the founders and at the time CEO (Jim Sinegal) was questioned about raising the price of the hotdog, his response was "If you raise the price of the effing hot dog, I will kill you. Figure it out." Their solution was to stop buying hotdogs from their current supplier and build a factory to make their own Kirkland brand hotdogs in Los Angeles and later a second in Chicago.
It's because he knows that of you go there for cheap food or a cheap chicken you are likely to buy all sorts of stuff. You raise those prices and many people would not even bother for the food which means that is less people hitting the store. They would rather lose money on that stuff which is a tax write off by the way, than raise it, lose potential customers. Good business model.
@@one7decimal2eight That was essentially it. IIRC, his reason basically was that the $1.50 hotdog was a well known staple of Costco.
The man is a genius. He understands the appeal of such a cheap combo meal especially since you already need a Costco membership to eat there.
Its more like its just a loss leader building a factory isn't going to make the hot dog profitable.
they better not be raising the prices on syrup and jelly! (I prefer syrup)
as a former Costco employee I can confirm everything like we have no idea where stuff comes from it just appears overnight
its just there every day
As another Costco employee; yeah.
Costco seems like an SCP on it's own
Do you ask customers where stuff are?
Night shift worker here. We open the doors for the goblins to bring in the food and stuff
Actually a night shift worker
Costco employee here. I showed this to a group of my friends at work, and they all thought this was hilarious. Even the GM cracked up at the “the back” joke.
The hot dog combo has stated the same price since 1985. They even opened their own meat plant to keep the cost at $1.50. Freaking love Costco.
The co-founder of the company threatened the CEO over the hot dog price.
“If you raise the [price of the] effing hot dog, I will kill you. Figure it out."
-Jim Sinegal
The hot dogs make me sick for some reason.
@@Vmac1394 Reasonable demands from reasonable people. I almost forced into my contract for wages that sodas be provided and capped at $0.25 per can.
$0.25 is the main office price at the company I work for, but working down the road in another building they wanted double (granted, excess profits funded our picnics and parties, but still...). Since I now work on another area (at the whims of a different seller, its actually the government ran in that case) they are $1/can... I can get 4 for the price of one if I fill my backpack up for like $2 to $3 and be good for the week!
@@jimmycon2001 probably the one you ate had gone bad or something. had gotten that way too many times to count happens to me whenever i go to a foodcourt. i am like an involuntary bad food magnet.
It does make sense if you think of it. If they're gonna be selling bulk trays of ground beef, minced pork, chicken breasts, frankfurters, sausages, steaks, etc. under the Kirkland home label, they might as well have their own meatworks. And some of those sausages go to the cafeteria to make those hot dogs.
I used to go to Costco with my mom when I was younger and I went there so many times that one day when I was around 9 or 10 a old dude came up to me and said he basically saw me grow up when I went to Costco with my mom cause he worked at the front gate, kind of cool actually.
that's very wholesome
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In a way.... this kinda made my day :)
If he said that to a girl, the girl would get creeped out AS HELL.
@@OffGridInvestor I was actually with my sister to I forgot to mention that
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@@thehobbyhouse4586 Peralta? 🤣
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Fun facts about Costco food:
- The price of the hot dog has been the same ever since it was added to the menu about 40 years ago
- The pizza will literally be the same in every Costco, they make it by machine so there is as little variation as possible.
- Nearly all of the food Costco sells at the food court is sold at a loss, they make way more than enough from memberships to cover it
As a citizen of a non-Costco country, this learning experience gave me the feeling that Boris Yeltsin must have felt when he visited that grocery store in the USA.
He didn't mention it was all super affordable as well, or that it's the best place to get gas for miles around.
i diddnt even know their was THIRTY stores in my country 😭😭 we only have like 5 states and theirs only 1 store in my state .
So no one asked this guy but country he lived in.
You made me laugh lool
@@nitrosherbert888 Because no one would embarrass themselves with that sort of grammar!
One time my family was coming home from a holiday and we needed to re-stock our fridge, so we went to Costco. It was supposed to be a simple ‘Go in, get food, get out.’ Deal, right? We came in looking for the needed stuff, came out with more food then was strictly reasonable, four giant bloody hotdogs and a paper shredder.
...a paper shredder?
@@funkymonkey1958 essential
We once went in to get paper plates and some simple decorations for a house warming party....
Ended up buying so much we had to cram every single cm^3 of the family hatchback with random shit and we still needed 2 trips
The CostCo experience
@@funkymonkey1958 Correct.
As a Costco employee, they trained us to treat the members with such respect and they're basically our only source of income, we only make money from Food Court and Memberships, we are also instructed to call the shoppers members not customers
How the hell does the food court make money??? It’s so cheap! I have no idea how you’re not taking a loss on that stuff
@@ryanhalien8468 in-brand meat supply to dampen the prices somewhat. That and the cofounder had promises of violence and other pleasantries to all whom who would even consider raising the prices of the hotdogs, so that probably chilled any considerations of raising prices.
Welcome to Credit Unions haha but it’s all the same concept
I honestly miss their combo pizzas tbh
You think joe eats produce?
Every single Costco that I've been in/seen has the same layout, electronics in the front, right passed the registers, passed the furniture into the fruit section and walk-in freezer with the bakery next door where you keep walking to find the meat section of the store before you get to the aisles of freezers and canned food which you can then find the walk-in fridge where all of the milk is stored. Then if you wrap around to the back corner through the paper towel aisle, you walk along a shelved wall with snacks and sodas all the way until you hit the pharmacy where you end up right by the registers.
You didn’t mention the cold room, where they store a bunch of food that needs to be kept cool but not as cool as like a refrigerator so there’s just this huge room that’s cold
The ones where they store eggs, fruits/vegetables and milk?
@@saleens302extreme No, the other one
@@saleens302extreme yes and the other ffruits
Just entering it is like going through a portal
Oh man summer in phoenix I’ll spend a good hour in the room sippin my smoothie. Fantastic
As a Costco employee, one of the introductory videos they show us is about where products are placed in the store. Have you ever went shopping at Costco, bought an item, used said item, and thought, "I liked this item, let me go back and buy it again next time we go to Costco." And then you go down the isle where you picked it up and it isn't there, but in a different isle? They do that so you can walk around the store more so you can "view Costco's variety of products available" (As the training video told me). When in reality they are forcing you to walk around each and every isle searching for this one item, and as you go down every isle you will impulse buy other random items and before you find your one item you were looking for you now have six different items that wasn't even on your shopping list is now in your cart! It is genius really.
However there are two sides to every story and sometimes it can backfire. I remember when I was a child sick with a cold and we were out of NyQuil. So my Dad and Sister went to Costco to buy milk and NyQuil for me. They came home with every item imaginable EXCEPT milk or my NyQuil! Just shows how sometimes people can be a little too distracted searching for items. Lol
Fucking Legends
impulse buying, weak.
Hey, it’s not backfiring for them.
This is a pretty common tactic on many stores
Yep parents went to Costco to buy fruits. Came home with everything but fruits.
I love Costco, only had one bad experience when I got accused of identity theft, but I got a free pizza out of it so it’s all good.
Their pizza slaps tho
@@JayPlusForerunner it does
How tf did that happen?? You know what you did with this comment - *WE WANT AN EXPLANATION!!!*
"I was charged with murder at Costco, but then I got a free hotdogso it's fine
@@Lucawee there hotdogs slap so jail would be worth it
Thanks! This video is truely holy.The sight of this most gorgeously beautiful video makes me tear up.
Honestly, I just love how genualy happy you are while talking about Costco
he is satirizing
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The thing I like about Costco is that no matter which store you enter, they will always look the same.
The Costco in this video (UK) looks exactly like the Costcos I stepped into in Sydney & Melbourne, Australia.
I feel like that’s all big box stores
It's like walking into an SCP 3007 location but this one is much more pleasant and the staffs aren't faceless creatures but normal human being like you.
I think thats another way of saving money.
There's only one costco with hundreds of entrances around the planet.
The door is actually a wormhole or some other scifi nonsense.
Stepping through takes you to the only costco in existence.
Except they like to randomly move stuff around every couple of weeks to confuse and annoy you.
A coworker of mine was in a Costco when his wife went into labor, and the Costco staff, on their own accord, realized something was wrong by how they were acting as they started to leave the store, and recognized it as a medical issue. They immediately brought a wheel chair over, offered to call an ambulance, and essentially did everything they could to help. They pushed her out while he ran to get their car. They cleaned up the mess that was made, and kept it all discrete. Whole thing took like 5 minutes to get her out safely.
Then, a few weeks later, they got a letter in the mail from Costco that included, among other things, a honorary Employee ID card for the little guy, with his name.
Sure, they are obviously wanting to ensure safety in their store for legal reasons, however this seems above and beyond what I would expect. Hell at Walmart they probably would have loaded her into a shopping cart and dumped her on the curb.
they are ready for medical emergency's because 90% of people who shop there are over the age of 60 XD my costco has a dedicated medic that patrols the isles.
Most Costco's I've been to also have pharmacies in the stores too with very cheap medication, so they also probably have some semi qualified medical staff on hand if they can also dish out prescription drugs
@@Uniformtree000 idk if pharmacist are qualified in anything other then pharmaceuticals who knows.
@@endurofurry it is a industry requirement for them to know first aid, just looked it up.
@@Uniformtree000 thx for the info not my area of knowledge!
3:48 As a former Costco employee, this is so true and This part made me laugh my ass off.
I can confirm that all Costco workers were actually previous shoppers who were never able to find a way out. After a week of wandering the endless warehouse, the manager came up to me, gave me a shirt and told me to restock the peanut butter. It’s been ten years, and I still have no idea where the peanut butter is. Pls help
Lmao
Aisle 5
@@judeoberfoell Which sector?
@@SoupyMittens Sector 7126. Very, very deep in the jungles of Costco.
@@YummyCracker He's a lost causes
As a former sample guy at costco I can tell you that we're not allowed to deny you samples, no matter how many you eat
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS INFINITE FOOD GLITCH
Chad
Noooooo, you shared the secret!
@@NobleNemesis You're right it's a company called CDS, but I'm not sure how that makes me an imposter?
@@NobleNemesis note how he never said he was employed by Costco but only that he worked there.
The pizza at Costco is pure, unadulterated ambrosia. A large pizza, sprinkled with packeted Parmesan cheese and ground pepper, paired with a purple smoothie. My god, you feel like a king.
Idk if if it’s like that everywhere but where we go, at the food court, for 10$ max, i had so much food that I could have had lunch for the next day with what i didn’t eat and it would have been very decent
sams club Could never compare
And their hot dogs are nice and longy amd juicy
I've been to three different Costco stores. The pizza always is mid, but the hotdogs, chicken bake and cherro is the real food of gods.
@@vyros.3234 Not to mention that hot dog combo cheap af
As an American, I would like to say that may have been the finest analysis of the Costco Eatery I've ever heard. You distilled it down to its essence. It truly is a blessing from the Wholesale Gods as recompense for trials overcome.
I've recently become a Costco employee, and not only are they amazing for customers, but they're WONDERFUL to work for. Most retail around my place start you at $10/hr and no benefits. Costco (here, at least) gives $18/hr, health care, paid vacation, mandatory breaks. Like... I am in *shock* after coming from a job where I would, on occasion, have to work 12-hour days with no breaks at minimum wage. Costco treats employees like *people* instead of replaceable cogs.
Costco is what big businesses SHOULD be, right down to being able to bulk buy entirely unreasonable amounts of cheese if you so desire.
Also the part about things spawning into existence is too true. Things just show up and I don't know if any of us are entirely sure where they come from.
Breaks aren't normally mandatory?
@@warnertesla8297
They are, but a lot of places like to play fast and loose with laws that actually protect people.
I like you pfp good sir, also name's a mood.
18/hr fe or do you ring? I'm at 313 and we start at 17.50. Ringers will make 18 I believe.
Weird, iirc, in some states, they go ~$22-25/hr.
Costco is literally the only store my wife can tell me we are going to for an hour on a Sunday and I'm not bummed out. I push the cart around load some 20-pound boxes of fruit and cooking oil, get 2 pairs of reasonably priced pants all while people give me free snacks. I get to look at a 3-ton car jack I didn't know I needed and at the end, I get a hot dog and gas that's cheaper than anywhere else in the city. Oh and my mother-in-law gets a rottisery chicken that she didn't want but it's five dollars so she is gonna buy it anyway, the whole family gets chicken sandwiches for 2 days.
If you hate shopping, Costco makes it as painless as possible.
Underrated comment.
its the parking lot that is crazy at Costco with how busy the place can get, with how many people they tightly pack in, and with how people stand and talk. Don’t get me started on the crazies at the gas station with putting their driver side gas tank on a passenger side pump, and snaking over their car. When they stand by their tank they block the path for other cars to leave without running them over.
Its more of organized chaos which is nice since its a lot of people, but it moves fast for asiles and checkout.
god level comment
Ha Ha.Yay for your mother in-law! I'm a vegetarian and still am tempted to buy a $5 chicken.
Wtf that chicken only lasts us one day. I eat like 1/3 and I'm a skinny person
I have never been to Costco as I'm in India, but the way this guy talks about it, the food court, the juices, the wharehouses oh damm I wanna go there
no you dont, costco sucks
I have not infrequently gone to Costco my whole life and same
We have Walmart Best Price(in India) which uses a similar model I think.
@@vedantthanekar9960 Walmart isn't even close to Costco
@@priyammehta8255 I don't know. The Walmart in my city is pretty big.
3:05 why is the tv part so accurate 😂 I usually stand there for a good minute mesmerize.
Honestly just wanted to say your videos are amazing. Recently came across your channel and I couldn’t help but binge. Quality content
Ha
I agree.
Wait wait a verified channel that made a good comment impressive
same
oo that valorant guy
I went to Costco several months ago and one of the employees started playing Ram Ranch at the electronics booth. What a time to be alive
Fucking legends
that is a man/women you do not want to mess with
Florida localized entirely in your nearest Costco!
Truly a man of culture
I have ptsd from Costco
One summer week, me and my sister took a road trip in an RV from colorado to Washington state. Every stop we made was a Costco. We would usually just get gas, but sometimes we just went into the Costco just because. They didn’t even let me go get samples or anything. They just took us in, walked around for a few minutes, and took us back to the RV. They did this because they “wanted to see how this Costco differs from others”. Towards the end of the trip, I see my Grammie holding a map with pinpoints with the Costco logo on the top.
We stopped at every single Costco from Colorado to Washington just “because”.
Hot dogs slap doe. Ngl.
Hot dogs do slap
Your Grammie and fam was defo a Sam's Club double agent. :D
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Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years going back to Babylon and before, C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate once you start a relationship with God.
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@@benc589 I didn’t know going to this many Costcos was the 8th deadly sin, my bad
@@SM-ju4ji They need some sort of Costco Chill for the dogs to set it off tho.
5:27 I mean they make you pay a membership fee just to get in, free food is the least they could do.
Its 35 dollars per year its so cheap
One of the scariest moments in my life was being in a Costco when an earthquake hit. Yes, I live in California where we are accustomed to swaying buildings and reminded at nausea what to do during an earthquake. But no one thought to train us on what to do during an earthquake in Costco. Duck and cover drills do not applied when there are tons of product stacked as high as the rattling ceiling and swaying lamps!😱
Big boxes at the warehouse section stacked to infinity: *its showtime*
its time for tetris hardmode. and the block that gets deleted first IS YOU.
Go in the employee door on one of the frozen food aisles or lay on top of a pallet of honey nut cheerios that's under the shelf
My mom always used to tell me to run to the toilet paper/towel aisle if there was an earthquake lol
@@wrasse1155I mean their soft
Costco always gave me a feeling of... small. I always felt small every time I wandered into that store. The Costco I visited had literal garage doors for entrances, plus a gas station.
The ones with gas stations are a godsend
There are literal birds flying around in the Costco I go to.
@@GoldenRevenge same
I went to one like that while I was in Atlanta
@@GoldenRevenge ever gotta watch out for falling projectiles?
Costco is effective if you're homeless, free food and cheap meals. hotdogs kept me alive for a few months
How did you pay the membership?
@@Pisolithus it only 60 a year
@@Pisolithus bum and save 50$ and you're fed for a year on free samples
Are you doing better now tho?
@@itsmeinnit5747 I have a job, phone, spare time, and I can comment on this. yeah for sure
A few notes, as someone who's worked with Costco for a year and a half and counting:
Yeah I've been acquainted with the company for a while, my dad has worked there since 1999, so I was kinda roped in cus I thought I'd be seasonal summers only but they were so desperate for night merch they got me on part time immediately haha
Anyways, as for the order to the chaos; the "fence" as we call it, is that line of products (usually on sale) that are put out as the highlight items. Other sales are on endcaps which is those products at the start or end of an aisle.
I've observed other Costco Warehouses and employees don't get too many questions from members about products getting moved but oh man I get at least 10 a shift, weekends are even higher. And yes people complain about stuff being moved a lot
Well in addition to the "treasure hunt" stuff kinda falls out of season, and there's not a high chance of someone who wants something like Hot Cocoa in Spring or a inflatable pool in winter. There's other examples too, but we have to keep bays (not shelves, no. Everything is in bulk) stacked to a certain height (usually like shoulder height) depending on weight and quantity.
Although the location I work at has some pretty cruddy members (but tbh I think most are just having a stressful life or something, I don't hold anything against them, I'm a little more concerned about employees being unnecessarily mean towards others tbh) I still enjoy stocking the store at night.
I know where a lot of products are, but not all of them. Mostly the general areas of them. But I can 99% of the time know where something is if I'm shown a photo, because with all the products I honestly can't remember names haha. Your best bet is asking upfront to a supervisor.
Great place to shop, employee benefits are great, my personal experiences might differ depending on region, but its a really good job that's helping me settle college funds and housing.
I remember when COVID started people were like "i could live in Costco to avoid the apocalypse and never die" and i still believe it
its true. probably billions of food items in a single store
it's like the endless ikea SCP, except real... and not really endless
Yeah
@@ArinJager1 it's almost as if that exists.
Damn I with there was an Ikea within a 4 hour drive of me.
The “security guard” you mentioned, is just another employee. They also don’t look at the photo, they’re there to get a physical count of every membership card that enters the building with a little tally clicker. Every 30 min they report that number and then management can gauge how busy the business might get in the next few minuets. They do sometimes check your photo at the register though, if you get a real stickler.
5:05 I wholeheartedly agree.
As a child I remember always getting so excited to go to Costco for the sole purpose of aggravating all the people giving out samples to feed me.
For me sometimes they weren't there
@@DEVIL-xg9bh probably came late or early
0:28
the martincitopants scream is the cherry on top here
Jay mart is in here
As a costco employee, this is absolutely hilarious.
Same
As a person, I think jokes are funny
@@dogeboithedoomslayer I, too, am a human who enjoys jokes.
@@WhiteStripesStripiestFan Not as bad as Ikea tbh
Benevolent hotdog bearer, the poutine baron, the pizza apocalypses, nuts fucking everywhere !!!!!!
Fun fact: I remember me and my brother having a walkie talkie. We went into it in Costco. The distance was able to interfere with the connection. Costco is the other side of IKEA. The third class Walmart. It is just huge. Words can’t describe the feeling of going into a Costco. I went into one in Hawaii. The place was even more massive than the one in my hometown. These things are so huge you probably wouldn’t even find the bathroom. And the exits and entrances are so huge. You could fit an entire train through there, it’s like a tunnel. My local Costco is attached to a tire shop, so when I walkout I always see the same weird tire brand mascot and some weird flyers. Good times all around. And once in a blue moon. You might get a Churro. One of the tastiest things at the food court. Also their sodas are massive. Bigger than the average McDonald’s cup. Like they said Super Size me, but do it twice.
25/10 experience, would go there again just for the scenery of seeing people walk around. It’s most fascinating experience and would highly recommend on anyone who can find one.
the largest costco in the world is like a 20-minute drive from where i live and it is fucking massive. the one in my hometown is big but this one takes it another level
Knoxville?
Asking because mine has a tire store too
I wonder which is bigger, Soriana Híper of costco?
I wonder which is bigger, Soriana Híper or costco?
"Whenever I went to Costco when I was younger, I would always be on my very best behavior, because if I was, I would get a chocolate shake. Once my parents forgot about our little deal we had and I flipped out
" - Scooby Doo
I have seen you so many times. Like, i feel you're everywhere!
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This was me but with the churos
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0:29 martypoopoopants found on sight
Finland rests
I haven't went to Costco in my life but hearing people talk about it makes it feel like some heavenly location and I want to go so badly.
Costco is to Sam's Club what Target is to Wal-Mart.
It’s such a big place and you feel really small. It’s almost like a museum.
it truly is heaven on earth
Its usually very clean
It’s truly magical
This video's editing is just flawless, such an incredible attention given to details with all the sound and video effects
Literally martincitopants
@@cossariccardo8567 He was in the video at 0:29 too Lmao. He was falling because Australia is upside down.
TELL ME ABOUT IT!
As a former refrigeration tech for Costco I have been INSIDE those freezers, yes they are fucking HUGE inside, bigger than the average apartment, infact possibly bigger than the average house on the inside. The Evaporators (basically the giant fans that make them cold) are the size of a Toyota Corolla and weight around 1300lbs, believe me, inside of those freezers are not fun to be in and even worse than that is getting on a scissor lift to go up and work on those evaporators.
My local Costco has a dairy section that is inside of one of these freezers. It’s cold in there alright
That makes me think of cheap rent... They can't kick members out right? I'm used to the cold, wear layers of coveralls and stop complaining your water glass busted because the liquid froze, just drink it faster and don't leave it out overnight by your bed.
Every night some poor fucker named Jeff had to forklift all the new stock in the freezers
why did you leave - better paying job elsewhere? what is the new place?
Is it like movies? like do people actually get trapped in the freezers or, god forbid, movies are inaccurate?
You forgot about their Kirkland signature products! Every Kirkland item embodies quality and value, even their wine haha
As someone that has been going to Costco way back when it was called The Price Club, I practically grew up at Costco. Your analysis was spot on. Cant believe you didn't mention that the hotdog with a fountain drink is only a buck fifty which is the exact same price it was in 1986. Crazy!
How could he make this video and not mention “The Fridge”? That big produce area where you all of a sudden enter into freezing temperatures. That was one of the most memorable things as a kid!
Me as a kid staying outside and watching my mom go in there and hoping she makes it out alive xD
YES
it was like going through an arctic wasteland
even worse when you're wearing short sleeves
As an average costco enthusiest, This had me laughing my ass off
@@Texasyellow5687 indeed
A cool thing about the Costco food court is that one space of the menu (usually on the far right) is a blank space that they put regional foods on, like here in Canada you can get poutine at Costco and it slaps.
Personally, my favorite location of any Costco's are the giant walk-in fridges where they keep some of the fruits and vegetables. Escaping the California heat in one of those is pure euphoria.
PREACH
Used to live in Arizona, the cold room really was a fucking oasis after a week at a steady 120 degrees Fahrenheit
This guy is hillarious, I binge watched all his videos and I've just been checking his page every now and then to see if there's another upload (obligatory "keep up the good work")
Absolutely MAD editing, congratulations to whoever put together this masterpiece
Prettty sure he edited all of his video himself
@engineer gaming Who's Joe?
@@PoseidonGod Joe Biden yo balls
@@PoseidonGod Joe mama
I laughed sooooo friking hard
I love the martincitopants cameo here 0:28
I love these in a nut shell videos, always so funny and entertaining
but you commented this literally 1 minute after the video was uploaded how would you even know you were gonna find it entertaining
*Deez nut shell videos
yeah
@@swampy725 seriously
Indeed
I never went into a Costco personally, but the closest thing from Costco is Sam's Club, which is basically just a carbon copy of Costco, but with way more security.
And the food court (at least for mine) is right at the front
I live right next to a Costco basically and my parents still decide to go to Sam's club, I think the main reason is (assuming Costco doesn't have this), if you spend enough at Sam's you can use their reward points to pay off the card
Isn't Sam's club more expensive?
I don't have a Costco, but I have a sam's club near me.
Sam's Club is literally CostCo but if Walmart owned it (and not as good imho)
I felt when he said there are no bad memories of costco, went there for years and LOOKED FORWARD TO IT, as a child, shopping FOR FOOD, they made it FUN, madlads
COOL thanks for GIVING US your THOUGHTS.
i’m always excited to see your new videos, they’re fantastic!
I cannot tell you how many times I've been asked if we have something "in the back" while working at Costco. Some people don't understand the concept of wholesale warehouses lol.
Your videos and editing are so great, I can’t think of any TH-camrs with better editing styles
then you obviously didnt see Martincitopants my guy
@Faraz alright, can’t think of one
I mean it does remind me a lot of MatPat.
Costco feels like The Backrooms. The liminal space, endless items everywhere, and that feeling of exploring a space that could plausibly exist, but simply dosen't.
There really needs to be a backrooms level based on Costco
It hardly feels that way since it is always filled with people.
@@warnertesla8297 it still has that "backrooms" kinda feel with the endless space.
Scp 3008? Never heard of them.
@@ninthdoctor7918 it is massive like the backrooms. I can't argue with that. But because there isn't a feeling of isolation, it doesn't feel like a liminal space. Hotel corridors late at night feel more that way.
3:59 this is actually a common strategy employed by a lot of stores in the US. We never put commonly purchased items up front they are always in the back and make it a pathway to navigate the entire store before finding the checkout area. AutoZone, harbor freight, Walmart, and especially sams club/Costco (basically competing but similar stores).
I actually love Costco.
One of the places I feel kind of okay shopping at.
I though Costcos were big, never thought you'd be able to jam one into a nut's shell
I swear your editing is so genius. I love every second of every video. So happy to see your channel really blowing up now.
I love how you use Brendan Fraser for every type of customer service employee.
I’m pretty sure Costco ended up saving my family’s bacon. In 2008 my parents had to file for bankruptcy and we had to move to an entirely new state. I don’t know if the rule ended up changing, but you used to be able to walk to the eating area through the exit doors and buy food as long as you didn’t try to force your way through the cash lanes. My family ended up eating there a lot, since the food was cheap and relatively good for what it was. Been shopping there ever since.
Never had a bad memory with Costco, and because of this video all of those vague memories of me playing around that kid playset and eating that large ass pizza is coming back to me.
I go to my Costco about once a month. I swear, I can never leave that store with no less than $350 worth of stuff in my oversized shopping cart.
Also, if there is a cool item you think you need, if you don’t buy it within 2 days, it will be sold out and/or discontinued if you think you can wait a week.
Joseppi’s accent makes everything more funny
Edit: I have a Costco near me and it is near to ikea. Speaking of ikea joseppi should do an ikea in a nutshells
British accents are the best
That is like literally the next step, it would be criminal if he never did it.
I recently had my first costco experience as an european (who actually discovered through this video that there are costcos in his country). And it truly was impressive, I'd never seen sizes and packages like that, like I could buy 24 bottles of 500mL of sparkling water, that makes no sense. The whole membership thing was pretty weird too. Lastly I made the mistake of buying cake to try it out, I'm pretty sure I developped diabetes instantly especially considering I almost only eat vegetables and bread
3:45 "You are already in the back" I'm dead ☠️
Just stumbled across this video now… I’ve worked at Costco for almost a year and I can not describe how accurate this is. We get a lot of weird shit that shows up and is then just gone in a week and we just accept that. Keep up the great work man
The stores are intentionally built to have the big rotisserie in the back so people will naturally make a b line for the $5.99 chickens, then snake their way down the aisles they skipped over on the first trip because why not browse a bit. You might find a 20 pound single hershey bar for $15.
In a horse shoe shape starting with majors (big tv’s, jewellery, tech) then all house and random stuff on the right, fresh food at the top, groceries on the other side of the horse shoe and clothes and more random stuff in the middle
This is how we design convenience stores too.
I came to watch this again to check if there was human trafficking at back of Costco
Here's a real-life hack: You can go in, walk through an empty register and find yourself in the food court. If you're real ballsy you don't even need to be a member to buy the hot food
See the above comment. They can’t sell you the food.
you don't have to be a member to use their pharmacy.
I do this all the time
Shhhh don’t give out the sacred trick so readily like that
This is excellent Joe. You’re contributing a wonderful thing yo society.
0:26 the squid game music has me dead
Don't forget their genious marketing strategy of putting all the essentials in the back of the store so you get caught up and buy usless extras on the way there
Overall, perfect video and 100% accurate
Welcome to Costco, I love you.
As someone who works at a Sam's Club which is quite literally the Walmart version of Costco, this is the greatest video I have ever seen
ah yes i love buying stores at other stores
This video could not come at a better time cause I'm on my way to Costco right now
what did you get from costco
He hasn’t left yet
@@hydra-1 mostly groceries like milk and cereal and stuff, but I did get like three containers of their blueberry muffins because good lord are these things the best
@@manwithaplan2001 Their chocolate chocolate chip muffins are the best muffins I ever had. Same with their pumpkin pies.
@@manwithaplan2001 you should try there chicken burgers there they are a taste of heaven (it's also time efficient to make considering all you need to do is microwave it for 1min 30sec)
Hey I work there :)
Also, at least at my Costco, the entry doorman is less for security and more to make sure people _have_ a membership as well as counting the number of memberships that come through the door. They don't usually check each membership individually as that would slow entry traffic to a crawl, they just need to visually see the membership card as someone enters. They actually get a lot of grief from people who somehow get offended when asked to show their membership???
They're not usually allowed to stop you if you blow past them without showing membership, but at the registers they can't ring you up without a membership card, like the register itself won't accept scans until it scans a membership so yeah.
The doorman is pointless where I live. By law, they have to allow you to use the pharmacy without a membership.
@@whom382 Well obviously we let people use pharmacy and optician without a membership, but the fact still stands you won't be able to buy anything else in the store without one. And they count memberships, noting the number every 30 minutes. Helps us anticipate how busy it is/is going to be.
Bro dude you so hella awesome and i had laughed sooo much in your content, your videos are literally amazing
This man needs to make ads for a living, he’d be rich.
Ah, Costco.
Where else could you go if you wanted to either fill up on gas, buy yourself groceries, or do both at the same time?
Every supermarket in the UK
Kroger? They do that too
co-op
really seems like you didn’t think this one through
@@atlashistorical can you get 50 carts full of flowers, socks and couches at a co op tho
“The heavenly business known only as Cost and/or co”
*Remembers childhood*
“Oh dear God, I’m going to Costco today baby”
i remember costco so fondly, i bought a fucking telescope, microscope, and binoculars from there
Costco muffins truly slap, most possibly the best muffins I’ve ever had
this style of editing is effortlessly hilarious and perfect for my very short attention span. congratulations +1 subscriber
How do they fit it into a nutshell? Looks a bit big to be in one. Do they make really big nutshells specifically for them?
Costco owners go to a Super Costco to buy nutshells tailor-made to their store
@@Sorrelhas where does super Costco get their nutshells?
@@ninjireal from the Costco mothership
what the do is in 20 years invent a growth ray and a time machine they go back to modern times and use the growth ray on the nutshell causing it to grow big enough for the store then they will move the store into the nutshell
Everything is bigger in America
It is impossible to escape Costco without spending over $100 because you see one item you need a mile and a half away from your last one and on your way there you spot something you never knew you needed but feel like you do now because the free sample was good or because something you have never seen In you life just looks like it would taste good.
It takes a lot of self control to spend less than $100 at costco 😅
@@tylertyler1360 ikr, its like 3-5 items and you are at $100
It's a marketing tactic.
"Welcome to Costco- I love you."
I went into this video like “ive never been in a Costco because I always go to Sam’s” and then realized that literally every bit of footage within that store is indistinguishable from the inside of a Sam’s.
In my experience, sam's has more variety, smaller bulks, better tasting fruits, less expesnive but good enough meats, a bit more expensive in general, more brand products. Also Costco's food court is better, customer service is better, employees seem happier than Sam's
@@jkim3323 I totally agree with the food court point costco just blows sams out of the water
Bro now I don't even know anymore. I've been to too many Costcos and Sam's Clubs that every time I recall from memory, I might be thinking of Sam's Club rather that Costco or vise versa.
Also Sam's Club food court is ass. Fight me.
@@Stickman_Productions bet I will! Sams club food court hits everytime! On my way to a costco right now actually, so Ill get back to thos to either walk back, or with a bat.
Sam's Club is Costco but literally worse in every conceivable way. 🤷 It's very much the shitty corporate knock-off you'd expect from as shitty and soulless a company as Walmart. They are very similar in concept but absolutely WORLD'S apart in quality and execution.
As a employee from Costco I can confirm this is true
Bro watched the video on x100
Atleast wait 10 mins after the video is uploaded
@@skeletalwarrior3190 nawh mate, I just.. Slowed down time and watched it
@@5624-m9z thats another way to do it lol
@@5624-m9z costco employees have to have a stand to be employed
just imagine if costco had a second floor...
It used to have one until they decided it was better to just merge it into the first floor.
That's too much power.
there's a costco with three floors in Taiwan
@@linkasa817The mother of all Costco’s
@@linkasa817 costco³
As an Irish person I have never been in the sacred land of Costco
1:07 that part genuinely made me laugh because of how unexpected it was
"I always end up leaving with a singular rotisserie chicken and a houseplant" why the fuck is this so relatable
(Update, I just bought a houseplant and now I am on a quest to get a singular lemon pepper rotisserie chicken.)
House plant
rotisserie chicken
Plant for house, rotissed and eried chicken meat
As an employee of costco, it's really one of the best stores to not only buy but benefit from. Saving money on items that are in packs and finding unique products is something you really can't get anywhere by my knowledge and working there is truly the BEST. Also what's funny is when members ask how stuff moves from on place to another/new items placed almost everyday becomes being common question.
"Places to go in case of apocalypse"
1.Cosco
2.Nuclear bunker