So apparently now at Costco, you have to have a membership ID that has a photo of you on it and they won’t even let you get in line to pay for your stuff unless you show your Costco card with a photo ID or with a photo on it if you have a Costco card that doesn’t have a photo on it then you have to show them your drivers license and they won’t even let you get in line until you show this. At the other place we don’t have to do this and we don’t have any issues with getting checked for membership through the store.
The photo on my card is from, like, 1985. I look like a kid in the pic. IRL, I am a crusty, gray haired old man. HEY — get off my lawn! See?
SW Washington here confirming this was the case today.
I have never been allowed even inside a Costco without having my card scanned. As in, they scan them on the door. Sometimes there’s a short queue to enter, and it’s always been this way as long as I’ve been a member. Perhaps it’s different elsewhere in the world?
I can’t help but think this is going to cost them more money than it makes them.
I knew self check out would make everything shittier, I hated seeing them being installed at our center.