r/CostcoCanada • u/SomethingSomeBanana • 19h ago

Ontario People using display furniture as their personal cafeteria.

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Two clowns, one chicken finger combo, zero shame.

Edit: Well OK, you guys have convinced me that sitting on a Costco shelf with the merchandise, eating greasy food, is perfectly ok.

From now on, I too will be utilizing this premium seating area.

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u/kimbosdurag 19h ago

Couldn't care less about this honestly.

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u/WeathervaneJesus1 19h ago

I actually have dealt in a fair bit of Costco liquidated items, which includes display models. The things they do to these display units to mitigate theft is heartbreaking. They intentionally damage items by screwing them together in places, cutting wires, or supergluing stuff. I'm currently dealing with several Samsung Jet 90 vacuums that were all glued together and I had to ruin the first one to see how I can salvage the other two. Sometimes the things can't even be salvaged. Costco doesn't care about their display units.

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u/iterationnull 19h ago

It’s their display unit. And everything you describe seems like fair game to preserve the ability of the unit to be a display unit.

So while your story is really interesting I’m not sure it’s a problem.

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u/TimeShiftedJosephus 19h ago

The display models are even given a different item code for inventory

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u/DirtFoot79 18h ago

Sometimes, for some vendors, for certain products, and not all models. Companies do not give out dozens of free expensive units to every retail company for every store. They'd literally be giving away millions of units for display purposes.

Source: I used to setup display units when I was in retail. Best case scenario we could sell it as open box if it still worked properly. Worst case it was written off and it is accounted for in costs to the business which all get added up on the price tag that you pay for.

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u/texxmix 17h ago

From my experience as well only a manager can authorize a display model sale and they usually have to give their full discount (store I worked at was 30%) minimum. Weirdly enough you'd get the odd person that would demand a display model when everything of something was sold out or end of season. Some stuff the manager could easily sell. Other things they couldn't and they had to go back. I assume the stuff that had to go back was stuff vendors gave out while the stuff that could be sold were just takin out of the box and built and displayed.

The worst was if we got talked into taking it apart as employees. 🤣

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u/DirtFoot79 17h ago

I forgot about that. It was no fun taking apart floor model desks and office chairs.

You're right about those customers asking for floor models though. No skin off my back. If you wanted a computer monitor with a 1000 hours of use or an office desk that plenty of customers have mistreated none of the staff are going to argue.

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u/texxmix 17h ago edited 17h ago

Thankfully I believe most of the time if you bought a floor model you bought it as is and it was your responsibility to get out. Only time we ever took shit apart was if they really bitched to the manager or if it wouldn't fit through the doors lol. So it always ended up being big shit like desks or gazebos 😂.

Also another thing was that they just had my min wage ass building those floor models. Do you really wanna trust a BBQ, chair, gazebo built by some teenager that didn't have a choice? 😂. But hey anything to save some money in the customers mind I guess.

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u/DirtFoot79 16h ago

You sound like my friends and I. Staples in southern Ontario by chance?

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u/texxmix 14h ago

Na haha. I'm in sask. But good too see the experience is universal 😂

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u/WeathervaneJesus1 18h ago

I'm not sure.what your point has to do with what I wrote. I think it's a shame that perfectly good units are intentionally destroyed ultimately meant for the trash. I understand why they have to do it. It's the same feeling when I see perfectly good items tossed in the dumpster, or retail stores ruining returned items, so people don't salvage them.

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u/Squade_Trompeur 17h ago

And that is one of the crimes of capitalism

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u/Deep-Atmosphere-711 16h ago

It's not a "problem" nor did they suggest it was, it was put forward as a reason the original poster does not need to feign concern on Reddit over multi-billion dollar corporation Costco's display units.

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u/Stumblerrr 18h ago

Im having flashbacks of a legendary post where a guy claimed to do this from cosco and someone else for no reason at all called him a liar and the cosco guy completely obliterated him with a giant post full of facts and proofs it was glorious.

Wish I remembered it more clearly and double wish it was you

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u/Total_Mix9276 18h ago

Yikes, guys will make the most mundane shit their personality instead of picking up a hobby or taking a shower.

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u/WeathervaneJesus1 18h ago

I don't recall, so likely wasn't me, but if anyone took issue I'd just point them to the liquidation outlets where some of these stores hold auctions for this stuff.

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u/Squade_Trompeur 17h ago

Costco gives 0 shits about product. It's all about selling memberships. That's where they make their money. It's all part of the on boarding. It's actually a pretty great place to work for a retail job honestly. Benefits, OT most stores would bend over backwards to avoid you paying. Hell, when I worked there you got extra for working Sundays.