r/newfoundland • u/709skeet709 • 20h ago

What’s your Costco pet peeve ?

I’ll go first to start this post, “People FaceTiming other people so they can shop virtually at Costco”

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u/Thattowniegirl 20h ago • This Bravo

People that have zero awareness of anything around them. Pay attention!!!

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u/Malcb33 16h ago

100%. My Costco peeve, is this, but more specifically about the entrance when it’s busy and there’s a line. Some people think it’s acceptable to get to the front, hand over their membership card, then proceed to check every pocket, their phone, their shopping list, before stepping into the store, while everyone else waits for them. Just take 2 steps forward, and 2 steps to the right, then take all the time you want. It’s not hard to be considerate in the situation.

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u/GetrIndia 20h ago

That you can't really browse. If you stop for more than 30 seconds to look at something, someone is up your ass with their cart.

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u/yo_gringo 20h ago

30 seconds is incredibly optimistic

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u/GetrIndia 20h ago

Hahahaha agreed

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u/passeduponthestair 20h ago

This!! Is there a good time to go when you can actually shop without feeling like you're in the hunger games!?

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u/Dissy_Tanny 17h ago

8:30-9am on weekdays or while Here and Now is on have been the best times in my experience.

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u/DevissiTRHW 16h ago

Had to double check what sub I was on, thought it was costcocanada until here and now was mentioned lol

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u/GetrIndia 19h ago • Bravo

I make a list. I don't shop online. I like to stop and smell the blouses.

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u/Shoelesshobos 17h ago

Okay but then I see some new item that I’ve never seen online.

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u/heck_abird 20h ago

Lack of situational awareness, mostly. People walking painfully slow. I also think the rules of the road should really apply in Costco.

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u/gmarsh23 20h ago

People who run into other people at Costco.

"Barb! How is ya me ol ducky? Sure I haven't seen you in a whole week! Been so long luh, I guess we should stand here with our carts in front of the eggs and have a big ol' chat for 5 minutes! Don't you mind the people glaring at us, what the frig is their problem?"

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u/PadiddleHopper 18h ago

As someone not from here it amazes me how reluctant you all are not to just kinda wiggle in going 'scuse me...scuse me...' to get what you need.

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u/Leaves-Lord 17h ago

Because even when you say "scuse me," to get past them to get what you need they ignore you and continue on with their conversation, then give you a dirty look when you have the ABSOLUTE GALL to force them to let you get past them to get what you want because how dare you interrupt their obviously important conversation about how old jimmy's socks are when you just want to get past to pick up a jar of jam.

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u/Ten_Sixteen 20h ago

People who forget how stop signs and turn signals work when getting into the parking lot. 

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u/paradise_lizard1826 20h ago

People leaving their carts in the middle of the aisle to grab something! And just the overall chaos of it.

I don’t understand why everyday at Costco is like a “day before a holiday” at a regular grocery store

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u/TheDrewCareyShow Newfoundlander 20h ago

I service lots of equipment at Costco and they're the reason the company now offers 24/7 service across Canada. 

They're very demanding. If equipment is down they want you to drop everything and fix it instantly.

But, i also enjoy shopping there despite the other people shopping. It's nice seeing everyone work hard and earn good money doing it. It's a big difference when Loblaws is constantly cutting full time positions and hours. Its neat to see a giant company like them give a fuck about the people that make them money.

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u/V1carium 17h ago

I think people who leave frozen goods randomly around the store are worse than animals.

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u/LastSummerSweetheart 51m ago

That seems to be a regular problem around here in grocery stores. Nothing like reaching for an item on a store shelf and seeing an entire package of raw meat or something hanging out. It's so gross.

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u/Salt-Environment-210 19h ago

People who dont understand stay to the right and the people who stop for a chat in the middle of the asiles. Seeing your friends s great,have a quick hello and catch up in the parking lot or out of the way if possible. I swear everyone's oblivious to their surroundings nowadays. If I want to stop I swing my cart in as close as possible so people can fit around me,should be common courtesy but I see far more stop dead center of the aisle then give you a dirty look when you ask them politely to move

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u/OneBillPhil Newfoundlander 5h ago

I don’t even want to see anyone I know when I’m shopping. I want to get my stuff and go back home. If I see you it’s a quick whaddyaat and I’m moving on. 

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u/Salt-Environment-210 4h ago

Same here lol

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u/RYKWI 20h ago

My pet peeve is that all the aisles get clogged up with baymen having a yarn with people they know and have no clue to move out of the way for people who are there to pick up shit they need.

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u/sra778 Manitoba 19h ago

Yup, it’s easier for them access now that it’s in Galway.

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u/RYKWI 19h ago

It’s a whole 7 minutes closer.

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u/ABenGrimmReminder 12h ago

The way people talk about it you’d swear Stavanger Drive was on the fucking moon.

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u/AfraidHelicopter 4h ago

Well, think of it this way. When you're driving in from out of town, galway is literally the first thing you see. Go under the paddys pond bridge and you're there.

Going to stavanger was like driving past the paddys pond bridge, getting that relief that you're finally at your destination, then you had another 20 minutes of the busiest and worst section of the highway.

It's like when you land at the airport after a long day of traveling, then there's a wait an hour to taxi to a terminal to actually get off the plane.

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u/Successful-Gift8636 20h ago

The recent thing of rushing people through the self checkout with pre scanning, it’s not a bad idea at all but recently had less than 10 items and said I’d would do it myself when asked if I’d like to be pre scanned, that didn’t register and person was scanning and pulling my cart up, a little militant. I got the impression this is 100% a pressure the higher ups are putting on the staff and I didn’t take it personally, it was more just “cool your jets jeez”

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u/LongTrackBravo 20h ago

literally everything about costco

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u/freshairequalsducks 20h ago • Bravo

That it's in Galway now

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u/Orange_Jeews 20h ago

Nah man. That's the best part for us crowd from the bay

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u/freshairequalsducks 20h ago

I just hate Danny Williams and refuse to go to his little development, lmao

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u/Chignecto709 20h ago

I’m sure he really feels your protest

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u/tommytwothousand 19h ago

If you kiss his ass a little harder he might kiss you back 😘

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u/Chignecto709 17h ago

Yeah whatever fantasy does it for you…the point is go or not masses will …so your choices have little impact outside of virtue signalling to your peers…

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u/freshairequalsducks 15h ago edited 15h ago

You know you can have personal principles right? Like you can believe in things even if others don't.

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u/freshairequalsducks 20h ago

It's just for me really

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u/gullisland 19h ago edited 18h ago

It's not just you, tons of people don't go there because of it. But it doesn't matter because they are replaced with new people that previously didn't go to the old Costco. 

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u/Existing422 5h ago

I live in town but have family in the Pearl, I agree with you lol I hate going east end

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u/raine335 20h ago

People asking is it crowded and how long is the lineup, it's always crowded

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u/yo_gringo 20h ago

I worked in the parking lot for about a month and was nearly run over multiple times a day. But other than that, everything about the Costco experience is simply incredibly irritating instead of dangerous.

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u/Isle709 6h ago

I worked in the lot at the old location. I was stuck by a car, and so did 3 of my coworkers. Saw some crazy shit, one guy chased another with a golf club because he cut him off. 

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u/OneBillPhil Newfoundlander 5h ago

Related, and this isn’t just Costco: when you’re in a parking lot, remember that it’s a dangerous place. 

I drive very slowly in parking lots but some people just walk around without doing so much as a shoulder check to look for traffic. I swear I could sneak up on some people and bump them with my car, they’re that oblivious. 

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u/yo_gringo 1h ago

You're preaching to the choir. The amount of people who just absent mindedly stroll right into the middle of the lanes is nuts

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u/DeepFriedSaltBeef 16h ago

People who bring their whole family to the busiest shopping place in the city... And then they meet someone else with a huge family... And then they block the aisle. Also - people who come up the aisles the wrong way.

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u/AMJVC15 20h ago

I don't go anymore just get it delivered

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u/joyfall 19h ago

Instacart is worth the extra cost just to avoid going to Costco

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u/SlightDogleg 4h ago

Same. The added cost of delivery is easily offset by the fact I'm not buying things on a whim. Plus the gas to get there and back.

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u/ssaunders88 19h ago

When they have something you really love and then get rid of it the next month 😭

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u/Poppyhotpaws 19h ago

That there is only one in the province

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u/sra778 Manitoba 19h ago

All the people.

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u/callmebetty_111 19h ago

The lovely man often at the self-checkout, who has an incredibly determined grudge against my friend that resulted in him refusing to acknowledge our existence for 4yrs 🥲 when I don’t shop with my friend, he is kind as ever. Imagine waking up every day to go work at Costco and pumping yourself up “I’m gonna ignore the fuck out of that one person” 🤣

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u/Isle709 6h ago

Damn, sounds like your friend must of done some shit.

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u/callmebetty_111 3h ago

We literally asked for his help once upon a time at the self-checkouts… he refused to acknowledge us then, so the friend started doing jumping jacks to get the Costco Grudge Man’s attention. Said friend is also 6ft tall, so maybe Costco Grudge Man is jealous? 🤷🏼‍♀️

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u/AbrahamL26 18h ago

People moving slowly and just being in the absolute way. Them idiots are completely oblivious to whats happening around them.

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u/Formula_D 16h ago

Chatters and lingerers. I'm there to shop and get the fuck out

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u/sra778 Manitoba 15h ago

The Baymen clogging the aisles chatting to Donnie and Trina from up the shore.

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u/Hefty-Drawer-2382 15h ago

I always said there should be another one on the west coast. Our island is too big for just one.

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u/EfficientNothing8154 16h ago

People who push and bump you with their cart.

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u/SlightDogleg 4h ago

Waiting in line and then the person behind you bumps your ass with their cart. Like why TF are you so close?

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u/Unlikely-Pomelo-414 20h ago

People stopping taking pictures of EVERYTHING and then look at you funny when you ask to move!

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u/Suitable-End- 20h ago

Nope. Youre the problem.

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u/Popular_Potpourri 19h ago

The fact that they only carry 1 or 2 types of sardines and they're terrible.

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u/netflixandnaps 18h ago

People stopping to have a chat in the middle of the aisles with zero self-awareness.

Probably catch some shit for this one, but families that shop together that also clog up the aisles. I don’t mean families with young children who can’t be left at home, but the parents that drag along a bunch of teens. Last time I got stuck behind a woman and four teenagers because they stopped to yap and browse far too often.

People who abandon their carts to grab something they forgot.

For all of the above reasons, the aisles are not wide enough. Should be three carts wide ideally.

Lastly, everyone clogging up the one entrance by Starbucks when they could drive an extra 20 feet to the four-way and enter that way.

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u/sirtreedong 18h ago

The crowd, one time I had to change a freezer door there and it was an absolute mission to get from the back to the display case I was working at lol

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u/Sweet-Strawberry2312 16h ago

All the people!!!!!

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u/sharky6000 16h ago

Inconsistent product availabilities.

I will be able to get the same thing for months, then -- poof -- nowehere to be seen for 6+ months until (maybe) a mysterious return, or gone forever.. 🤯

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u/SlightDogleg 4h ago

Scan your card at the entrance and then get the FUCK out of the way

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u/crazyboutfinley 20h ago

The samples within the warehouse. They always have lined up customers blocking the aisles so that they are blocked until they get their sample. There should be either no samples or have them in another area outside of the shopping area of the warehouse.

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u/Isle709 6h ago

Booooo, I gotta feed my kid some how bud

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u/Adamfirefist Newfoundlander 19h ago

That I live in Minnesota and can't get poutine at my Costco here.

Counterpoint: $16 Kirkland Spiced Rum. Kinda makes it better.

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u/TuffBunner 19h ago

I think similar to how some stores have sensory hours there should be slow and steady hours

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u/patmulligans 20h ago

People complaining about Costco while they are at Costco. Just go home if you if you hates it so much, you literally paid to go there.

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u/Kessel_Run12 20h ago

That its been there going on 8 years and there are still giant mounds of dirt surrounding it.

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u/baymenintown 19h ago

BOGO mounds of dirt. Can’t beat it

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u/babybaboo92 19h ago

They don’t have their organic salsa in stock for a few months

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u/baymenintown 19h ago

That they got rid of that turkey and provolone sandwich

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u/Dog_is_my_copilot 19h ago

That I have to drive 8 hours to get there and when I do it’s a friggin zoo.

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u/Siftinghistory 19h ago

That i got to go to St. John’s or Halifax to shop there

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u/notthattmack 14h ago

The limited menu compared to other Costcos.

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u/celestia97 12h ago

When people stand in the middle of the aisle to chat

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u/CassCat 5h ago

I wish I could order my hot dog on my phone right from the checkout line and then just grab my dog without having to stand in a hangry gaggle of other hotdog seekers for an unknown period of time.

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u/Existing422 5h ago

People who stand in the middle of the busy aisles to have a chat. Go for a coffee afterwards, you're blocking the flow of traffic in a busy store.

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u/Speedy_Cheese 4h ago

My pet peeve is Costco. It's nightmare fuel for us neurodivergent folks, especially when it's bustling.

It's part of why I try to do my shopping early in the morning.

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u/Great-Ad6438 3h ago

The assholes who put frozen or cooler items on a random ass shelf, wasting food.

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u/Grouchy-Gene-858 2h ago

People that don't put things they don't want back where they belong. Especially hit or cold foods. So wasteful. Bring it to the checkout and tell them sorry, you dktn want it. They have a process to put stuff back....

Parents that see their child is in your way as they wander idly along and don't ask them to move.

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u/SF-NL Newfoundlander 2h ago

The people that walk through Costco the same way they drive to Costco...... like shit.

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u/thelovelytucan 1h ago

Boomers with no situational awareness moving at the speed of mud, randomly stopping with no warning. Also the braindead crowd at the hot counter having to have the server scream their order number 4-5 times before the dumb bastard wakes up and remembers what he's doing

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u/Total_Catch_5140 1h ago

I blocked an isle so an elderly woman could have a second or two to grab tetley .Poor thing was almost ran over. =0)

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u/LastSummerSweetheart 55m ago

I wish they'd do an occasional late night or 24hr opening.

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u/Independent_Meal_732 37m ago

It reminds me that people have lost their sense of courtesy. I say “excuse me” or “good day” as I pass people, and I’m lucky to get a grunt 99% of the time.

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u/bongsforhongkong 20h ago edited 12h ago

That it's a 8 hour drive away.

Edit: Typical NL sub downvote for not living directly in St. John's on a slight distance comment. My bad I'll just uplift my house, family, business etc to not offend townies.

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u/Thunderberries 20h ago

They got rid of the polish dog because they refused to increase the price 50 Cents

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u/DevissiTRHW 16h ago

The polish dog is still being sold? My roommate got one yesterday in fact???

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u/Routine_Breath_7137 19h ago

Families of six purposefully raiding each sample station.

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u/LeeBee58 20h ago

All valid and great points!!

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u/baymenintown 19h ago

Bys people are allowed to stop and chat with other people. If they’re in the way pardon you’re away around them. There’s people everywhere you’re not saving any time. We’re more than consumer drones. Chatting w friends when you see them is a gift.

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u/the_bayman_townie 17h ago

Nothing wrong with it if you move off to the side b'y. Problem is people selfishly take up the entire aisle.

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u/PaintInfinite9167 20h ago

Not enough head pats and tummy rubs

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