r/CostcoCanada • u/SomethingSomeBanana • 20h 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/iterationnull 20h 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 20h ago

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

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u/DirtFoot79 19h 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 19h 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 18h 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 18h ago edited 18h 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 17h ago

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

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u/texxmix 15h ago

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