I've unfortunately made this mistake at Costco of all places.

My buddy did this one time. Ended up stuffing a can of tuna into his pocket without thinking and then got arrested because they thought he robbed the convenience store and killed the clerk, but it was actually someone else just in a very similar car. Gotta be careful.

I hate it when I have to commit murder for my tuna.
- Bro, it wasn’t him! They looked similar and even drove similar looking cars!
Sounds like their lawyer was dead on balls accurate.
- I guess, took him five tries to pass the bar.
Robbed the convenience store and killed the clerk..over a can of tuna?
I’m not sure I could call myself a good police officer at that point. I’m not sure I’d think I was cut out for the job of even defining ‘criminals’ at that point.
It's hard to tell if your chances of getting shot by the cops is part of the internet being an echo chamber or if it really is a thing we live with. Regardless, I avoid the interaction with law enforcement and bring the dog in if they happen to be combing the area. An American Bull Terrier on my street named Queenie actually got shot and survived.
- When I was a teenager, a cop drawed on me and my friend. As I pulled into my friends driveway the cop turned on his lights and parked behind my car. Didn't notice until we were getting out, so the cop drawed his pistol, pointed it at us and yelled for us to get back in the car (was "pulled over" for speeding).
  I've also been woken up by police carrying AR-style rifles during a raid (not for me, for my previous roommate).

Me dropping a $3 bottle of kombucha in the parking lot after cleverly avoiding the bag tax.
You can go through self checkout and lie at the "How many bags did you use" lol
- You wouldn’t download a bag.
- Wait... That's illegal
- The grocery stores in my country make you scan a barcode on the bag every time. "Luckily" they pay their staff minimum wage and treat them like crap, so you can usually start bagging your stuff and most of the time nobody cares (not that I'd know from experience or anything)
- At my grocery store it asks you, “How many bags would you like to purchase?”
Oooor you can just bring bag with you into shop.
It's now either 15p or some stores only do canvas style 45p bags now. Get ready America. I wish we just had the paper bags back.

They should have like regret baskets midway through the store.

"Yes, could you please point me toward the baskets of shame?"
- sigh "You again? Picard, you come here every week. When will you out ever learn? Here, let me help you with that. Right this way,"
Which is why you see empty carts at Home Depot in aisles. It isn't an accident.
If they had a dom on staff to slut shame us a bit when we get the regret basket, that would be amazing! 🤤
- Whatever floats your boat!

Me going into costco: I just need a rotisserie chicken for dinner.

Ten minutes later: I guess I do need a 50 gallon drum of mayonnaise.

This got me. 😆
Everyone needs mayo.
- To dip the rotisserie chicken in. Obvs.

Protip: Just take a box from a shelf. They give them away anyway.

But the better tip is to always take a cart at Costco. And never expect to spend less than $100.

Unless I know I need a lot of stuff from Costco, I never grab a cart. It forces me to make significantly fewer impulse purchases.
- Reasonable strategy.
  Mine is to carefully consider the need for "extras". But because prices are better and returns are easy I lean more towards purchasing than not. I am less inclined to purchase at other stores where prices are higher and returns nor complicated.
imma just grab a chicken

What's special about Costco? Speaking as someone who's never been.

As it pertains to this post, they specialize in selling in bulk.
- Aah, that's the context I wanted. Thank you!
  They've recently tried establishing here in Sweden. Not quite sure where they set up shop but it's nowhere near where I live, so I've not been. Don't think it's going great for them. I don't think bulk groceries is a filled niche here, but I'm also not sure how big that niche even is. As far as I know most people buy groceries for the day, or every couple of days. My roomie and I order in groceries once a week. I think that's fairly standard.
  Might be massive savings in buying in bulk, but then there's the matter of storing it all too.
- oh, a straight answer, those are rare
Bulk shopping, and the place is like a giant warehouse. I once made the mistake of picking up a few heavy things and hauling them around the store with me until I could check out. It was painful.
Just imagine a Walmart that you are not hoping no one sees you in.
- We don’t have Walmart.
They sell items in larger quantities, like 24 eggs vs 12, or 3 lbs of cheese vs .5 or 1, or 7 lbs of sour cream vs 1, 2-3 lbs of chips vs 10 ounces (if my goofy American units mean anything to you). They also have good prices on other items like kitchen goods, jewelry, electronics, auto services, alcohol and clothing. One thing that distinguishes them is that their house brand, Kirkland Select, is very good for most items. While they tend to only carry 1-2 brand names for most items, they’re very well chosen in my experience.
- (if my goofy American units mean anything to you)
  I got the idea after reading "24 eggs". That strongly implies family size.

I do this on purpose to prevent myself from buying to much. I KNOW I'll get more than I came for, lack of basket or cart puts an upper limit on how much

I explained this to me children and how carts are for the weak. My then 8 year old announced loudly when she was shopping with mommy right by the carts "mommy don't take a cart, those are for the weak".
Wife wasn't too thrilled about it and was even less thrilled when I laughed.

Me: I don't need a cart

10 minutes later, dragging a basket full to the brim with my arm hanging out of its socket

I come in. Need 3 things. Grab 2. Get a call to get 2 more things. Remember i need one more. Then stand in line with a tower in my hands.

I’ve done this at Costco myself a number of times.

“Ah, I just need a bag of coffee and a thing of multivitamins. … Oh, we could use some smoked salmon. And, another bottle of Malbec. Maybe some frozen waffles… Ooh, they’re selling Amish-built sheds!”

And, then, I’m either manhandling half the store to the register, or I’m putting the stuff aside somewhere—looking a bit like one of those careless people who can’t be bothered to put stuff back—and making the walk of shame to get a cart.

Yea this happened to me at Costco when I forwent the cart and ended up deciding my dog needed a new bed. And then I decided I was to proud to grab one on the way out. I am such an idiot most of the time.

I'm really annoyed my local grocer got rid of their baskets. They said it was a part of cutting costs.

Were they using disposables?
boy. mine still has them and they have two sizes of carts. I actually really like the small carts.
And that's when you got rid of your local grocer?
People would just steal them after the plastic bag ban, grocery store just never replaced them.

Idk who that man is beyond I've never seen him expressing any emotion other than social anxiety he's like the socially awkward version of the Terminator

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I put everything in my backpack. If I can't put something in my backpack, then I don't buy it

A lot of places where I live don't allow people to carry backpacks throughout the store due to theft
- Yeah, I was going to say. I'm too paranoid to put things in the bags I bring in. Not up for the drama with an over zealous anybody and inching up the chances of getting shot.

Not using a basket keeps me from buying a bunch of extra shit I probably don't need.

Costco doesn't even have baskets, at least the one I go to. So it's either carry by hand or a cart. So I carry by hand, which keeps me from overspending every trip because I can only carry like 4 or 5 things. I buy for myself only anyway so it's usually enough for the week.

Costco doesn't have hand baskets anywhere. The word basket in the image refers to the cart.

Just wait until he discovers the store no longer provides bags….

No, they'll still provide bags. But it's the woven cloth ones that cost $1 per bag. I have about 57 of them at home.
- so you're pretty close to being able shop there and provide all the bags you'll need without needing to buy any more.
- Tote life!
You can grab a cardboard box at checkout.
For free. I have yet to encounter a retail store that won't sell you a bag of some kind.

Reported: I'm in this post and I don't like it!

Rel af

This is just an advertisement for this store. does this place have a hail corporate yet?

It's just a genuine thing that happened to me. Not everything that mentions a store is an ad.
- But capitalism!n!!n!!n
- What's happening is that when things act as an ad they fulfill the same marketing purpose as a paid advertisement. Just because it happened to you, doesn't mean talking about it online is not marketing in its effect. But I see where you're coming from.
  This idea is like thinking that people with shirt with huge brand names on them are helping to raise that brand's awareness level with others. Things can be more than one thing at the same time.