<p>I sometimes bring in one of my large reusable bags. I hate taking the boxes cause then I have to get rid of them when I get home. The one bag will hold some of the “smaller” Costco items - fruit, parmesan cheese jar, etc. </p>
<p>My cat loves boxes too…he chews them! We bring our own bags to the warehouse store. But we bring our own bags with us everywhere we shop.</p>
<p>I always have several of the reusable bags in my car and always forget to bring them in with me. So the boxes we use to bring the stuff home gets used for the newspaper recycling.</p>
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<p>Last week I bought a book on history of Legos, which included some Legos. I also bought some beginners books on painting, with pastels, or watercolors, or acrylics. I hope they appeal to the younger kids around 10 y.o. </p>
<p>Very few people use the boxes but instead, simply stack everything back into the cart, and then unload it into back of car. I will unload smaller items into reusable bags but I don’t know that customers would be allowed to pack bags too fully as cart contents are ‘checked’ against receipt at exit.</p>
<p>I only got mixed nuts & cashews, plus some socks & a Seahawks sweatshirt for H.
It all fit in the bag that I brought.
I have enough boxes at home from my online orders.</p>
<p>Wonder if the box usage is a regional thing. Very popular here to the point that they run out of boxes, keep them stacked under the cash registers and in a big bin up front, and some people get them from the employees who are stacking them in carts to take to the front.</p>
<p>Our kitty <em>needs</em> her Costco boxes. Catnip does nothing for her.</p>
<p>@jym626 – I think it must be regional. We don’t have gas or liquor either. Really the only people I see using boxes are older couples where one partner goes and grabs the box while the other stands in line. The place is packed at all hours with long lines at all dozen registers, with a cashier and ‘bagger’ working most registers. No one would wait while someone left the line to retrieve a box.</p>
<p>This now has me wondering about the sales volume & product mix at various Costco locations. </p>
<p>They keep them under the register and go through a lot of them in our area, too.</p>
<p>Ours has boxes under the register areas and a huge bin nearby - one before you get to the register and one at the end of the registers. I just hate to deal with the box afterwards - I’d rather make 6 trips from the garage to the house by hand just so I do’t have to deal with the darn box!!! </p>
<p>Our location keeps the boxes on a back wall that can only be reached by walking through the registers and then walking back to your cart. (I am not explaining that well.) The lines for the registers back up to the row of merchandise so there wouldn’t be a place to store boxes. The place is just crazy busy all the time, and I am in there far too often. </p>
<p>Just got a discount tonight at a la Quinta inn when I presented my Costco Amex to pay for the room. I didn’t
know about it, but the clerk offered so why not? I’ve only seen discounts for worst western or Hyatt on their web site so it was a surprise.</p>
<p>Does your Costco have the Indian Bread - naans in a frozen package? I found one they offered last year - had about 50 or so in the package and both H and the kids loved it. But haven’t seen it since…</p>
<p>I like to wander into Costcos when I travel, if there is a store near where I stay. It’s mostly the same stuff but sometimes you see some interesting things. Here in VA we have wine but no liquor. I have to drive into DC to get the liquor, which is too much of a hassle. Costco has stores in Asia (Korea, Taiwan, not sure what other countries), and I would love to see what’s in those stores.</p>
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<p>There are about 30 Costco stores in Mexico. There are not very different from the US despite being a venture with a Mexican retailer. They are a bit more upscale than the Sam’s Club against which it competes. Both of them are very successful. Interestingly enough, there are a good number of products sold in the US Costco that are cheaper in Mexico despite being manufactured in the US. </p>
<p>@arisamp, our Costco has Naan in the section with the regular loaves of bread, english muffins - that sort of thing. Not 50 in a bag though!</p>
<p>I recall hearing that you can get the same food (hot dog, chicken bake) in the Korean Costcos. I just wonder what local products they carry that we don’t get.</p>
<p>Arisamp, I bought naan* at Costco maybe three months ago? Good stuff, but I don’t buy it very often because we don’t manage to go through the whole package.</p>
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