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Old 03-06-2020, 10:48 AM
 
Location: Hookerville, formerly in Tweakerville
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Now, Costco is going to stop offering samples.

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Old 03-06-2020, 12:22 PM
 
Location: Bella Vista, Ark
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Now, Costco is going to stop offering samples.

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Is this due to the virus or do they just think it is costing too much money for the company to feed people lunch via grazzing?
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Old 03-06-2020, 12:29 PM
 
Location: San Diego CA
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Health concerns. Seems the prudent thing to do.
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Old 03-06-2020, 12:52 PM
 
Location: La Mesa Aka The Table
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The free samples is usually paid for by the vendors
I think it may have more to do with, the people vendors hire to cook the food. If that food is not cooked right, and people get sick, the first person they are going to sue is Costco.
I think Costco is finally bending to pressure from Wall St too, "tighten up".

A lot of big retailers are cutting back, not hiring and cutting expenses at an alarming rate. It maybe they know something we don't
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Old 03-06-2020, 12:56 PM
 
Location: Northern California
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Old 03-06-2020, 01:23 PM
 
Location: San Diego
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Good. Now all the freeloaders won't be clogging up the aisles.
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Old 03-06-2020, 01:51 PM
 
Location: Charlotte
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Health concerns. Seems the prudent thing to do.
The true health concern is the amount of calories in a lot of the items they are trying to entice people to buy with those samples. Maybe people will stop spontaneously buying 770 calorie boxed Kirkland chicken bakes and truly enormous bags of chips they don't need after a sample and we can cut into the obesity epidemic that plagues 42% of the country. Oh wait, 3 people just had a coronary heart disease induced heart attack while I typed this. Let's go back to the virus though. Talking about the obesity epidemic is uncomfortable.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...finds-n1144091
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Old 03-06-2020, 02:05 PM
 
Location: San Diego
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Now, Costco is going to stop offering samples.

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They offer to use Lysol wipes and clean your shopping cart handle when you enter the store now.
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Old 03-06-2020, 03:58 PM
 
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They offer to use Lysol wipes and clean your shopping cart handle when you enter the store now.
My Costco biohazard suit is on backorder.
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Old 03-06-2020, 04:20 PM
 
Location: La Mesa Aka The Table
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Good. Now all the freeloaders won't be clogging up the aisles.
No!

The people with nothing else better to do on a Saturday or Sunday will still be there.
At my local Home Depot is full of people i never see buying anything, yet they are still there yapping the ear off of an employee
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