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Bad news if you’re mooching off of someone else’s Costco membership: The retail giant is cracking down.

Bad news if you’re mooching off of someone else’s Costco membership: The retail giant is cracking down.

When you enter Costco, you need to show your membership card to an employee to shop. Costco membership cards are non-transferable, but the company allows members to give a second household card to one other person in their home. Anyone with a card can bring up to two guests to the club during each visit, the company stipulates.

But Costco has noticed that non-members have been sneaking in with membership cards that don’t belong to them — particularly since Costco expanded self-checkout.

Costco recently started asking for shoppers’ membership cards along with a photo ID at the self-checkout registers, the same policy as regular checkout lanes, to crack down. “We don’t feel it’s right that non-members receive the same benefits and pricing as our members,” Costco said in announcing the change.

And now, Costco is testing out a system that requires members to scan their membership cards at the store entrance — instead of just flashing the card to employees. Shoppers have spotted the new scanners at a store in Washington State and posted photos on Reddit.

  • ShoeboxKiller@lemm.ee
    3·
    10 months ago

    The entire point of contention is why any member would be ok with non-members using services you pay for without paying.

    I feel like you’re projecting. I never said it was your job or mine to police who shops at Costco.

    I replied to another comment of yours that was wrong and looked through your comment history. Are you a Costco employee? You are very combative in multiple comment threads.

    I have to believe you either work for Costco or have such a cult like love for them you default to shilling on their behalf.

    • Zoolander@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      It wasn’t wrong. You’re just misconstruing what I said.

      I said this in another comment too but the fact that you think the only way someone can disagree with you is that they work for Costco is a conspiratorial hot mess. I neither work for Costco nor “have a cult-like love for them”. You just have a persecution complex.