I hate this Costco. My hatred for it is near comparable to the Sunnyvale location. I grew up going to the one on Coleman and then the last few years, I frequented the one on Hostetter. Now that we're in Palo Alto, this one is the closest to home. Why do I hate this Costco?
Parking. Parking here SUCKS. Combine that with the plethora of Asian drivers who can't drive. Or park. Or go down the aisles in the wrong effing direction. Park close to Krispy Kreme and then walk over. It'll save your blood pressure from going into overdrive or killing your mood before stepping food into the warehouse of doom.
Carts: On the weekends, there are no carts by the entrance. Where are the carts? Scattered everywhere dinging into cars throughout the entire parking lot. Note, make sure you grab a cart on your way in. Secondly, the next thing you do when you enter, is grab a few items by the door and throw it into your cart so someone doesn't walk off with it.
Entrance: This entrance just sucks. Between the gazillion people trying to come out and the thirty people that congregate there, its one hell of a traffic jam. Oh yeah and make sure you get your membership card out cause it really sucks standing behind the mom with the oversized tote pulling out everything except her damn card.
People that shop here: They really need to stop jacking my cart, talking on their cell phones loudly in their native languages while meandering down the center of an aisle going slow as a snail while I can't get the hell around them. Oh yeah, and there's always the Chinese family that's trying to eat the blueberries and strawberries before buying it. "Tasteing to see if its sweet" then grabbing a different carton. Yeah. cut that sh*t out. You're making me feel like I should pull a Michael Jackson and deny any relation to being Asian. Oh yeah... how about the families that let their kids run buck wild or the ones that repeatedly go around in circles to sample. Look. There's a food court up at the front. That's just ghetto. I admit we did that in college but you're setting a pathetic example for your kids when you feed them lunch by going to the dino nugget sample stand 10 times in a row.
Lines: Lines here are horrendous. Seriously seriously horrendous. No matter when I shop here, there's always a huge line going down the warehouse. And they rarely open more checkstands. ARGHH!! Hostetter Costco's management was all over the lines. It was like the Lucky of Costcos... three carts and they opened up a new line.
Returns area: Okay... I understand the occasional return and I'm guilty of it. Its pretty pathetic when I'm standing in line to return my husband's dress shirt that was marked M but in reality was some XXL, but when I have to wait in line for half an hour because there's a family in front of me that is returning a package of two gallon milk. Seriously people? After you finish off one entire gallon and the remaining gallon is about 1/4 full and "spoiled" so you claim? Goes back to my section about why I dislike the "people that shop here."
Darn you Costco. For sending me the coupons that entice me to come back time after time to stock up on enough toilet paper, paper towels, and chicken thighs until the end of the world. read more