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stolen from Jim Gaffigan in “Beyond the Pale”
This is so true, once I went through an entire Costco with a friend eating all the free samples we could find.
I work for Sam’s Club as a food Demonstrator, and trust me, this graph is SO true. Thankfully, at Sams, my employment isn’t based off of how much people buy, where as at Costco I think it might be.
As a food demonstrator at CostCo, you’re right and wrong; we’re still employed if we don’t make goals, we just don’t get to work. Considering goals are last week’s total items bought X 3.5, there are times when I want to kick corporate’s ass.
Ah ok, I figured you wouldn’t get fired after not meeting goals once (that would be absolutely ridiculous and they’d lose everyone they forced to demo non food products). We have goals too, but they’re kind of pointless because we work for a company thats contracted by Sam’s, so theres no way of actually tracking sales, without a completely cooperative Club. Our goals are 5 x the average amount of said item sold in one day. No matter what, goals that depend on people, are annoying, because you don’t have as much control as people who are setting the goals usually think you do.
Welcome to Costco, I love you.
The best time to go is lunchtime on Friday.
Half the time I do end up buying the product after sampling it.
Yeah I think that’s the point. Give a large group a free sample, a small percentage buys the product…
Isn’t that what my membership fee is for?
They cancel out, if they’re going to buy the product anyway, they’re the same.
Mmm yes, I remember this from my childhood.
I also remember when Razor’s were really popular and Costco had a few just laying around so my brother and I were racing each other up and down the aisles.
my brother, then 12, asked the elderly and very cranky looking sample lady if he could try some. she asked if he was going to buy and he said that he didnt know he had to try it first and she yelled “then no”!!!!!
when i was eleven i went to get a sample and the lady took it away and asked me where my mother was! I don’t know what she was trying to do.
At least now, it is because of “food safety protocol”. We can’t hand out samples to kids without parents without risking the chance that the kid could be allergic and not know. It’s more for the kids’ safety than anything.
Lizzi is correct. It’s about food safety. Cuz a kid might be allergic to peanuts but sometimes does not remember (or thinks the food sample does not have it), so if the food demonstrator gave the food to the kid and the kid suffers an epic allergy reaction, the food demonstrator and the supermarket might get into trouble.
I got asked once too last year… but I’m really 22 (though also happened to be shopping with my mom who was at a different aisle). XD It felt nice to look so young lol.
but all she did was ask where my mother was and then when i pointed to her she just let me take it, i think if anything she was making sure i didn’t run away from home and go to costco for free food
Wait, there’s free food at costco ?
*leaves and slam door*
SO TRUE MAH HEAD APLODED
*sigh* Yet another completely relatable graph that made me chuckle…
Costco is 10 miles away from my house just for the cheap and free food.
I just failed, here is what i meant to say. “Costco is 10 miles away from my house AND I GO THERE just for the cheap and free food.”
lolz