Winston L.
Yelp
My beloved Costco, how do you only have three stars on Yelp?
Before COVID and in the last year, I've shopped at this location on average once a month.
For the uninitiated, please go to Google and look up what to buy at Costco. There are dedicated websites, chat groups/forums that talk about cool finds and good deals at Costco. I'm not going to go much in detail here, but I would say my go-to's are gas, rotisserie chicken, croissants, bagels, tomatoes, avocados, berries, sausages, pesto, milk, eggs, and flowers. The pricing and quality are good enough that I rarely get these items elsewhere. $4.99 for a 3 lb rotisserie chicken or a 12 pack of croissants. It's almost TOO cheap.
If you're visiting from out of town, there are definitely hints of different cultures that shop at this store. Oxtail, pineapple cake/lunar new year seasonal things, bottles of bird's nest, ghee/naan/paneer, and gallon sized cans of menudo. If you're looking for big cuts of meat, they almost always have whole brisket and ribeye roasts. I just bought a two-pack of pork shoulders last week and that was massive. This particular location seems to also have more gardening items than other Costcos.
It does get extremely busy at times, but I've never had issues with parking, whether it's next to the tire center or way in the back across the street from Re-Bath. They installed a bunch of self checkout lines which really speed up the checkout process (only exception is if you want to buy alcohol, then you have to go to normal checkout). I avoid the tire center at all costs, but I've been there on weekdays before open and it's usually not more than a handful of people waiting. The gas line can look intimidating during the day, but usually it's just one or two cycles of people for a set of 3 gas pumps.
I haven't needed to interact with the staff much, but I have definitely done a handful of returns and quite a few price adjustments from new coupons or discounts and I didn't have any issues.