Top 5 Things You Didn't Know About Costco
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- Top 5 Things You Didn't Know About Costco
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It may be your favourite store to shop in, but do you know all these weird facts? For this list, we're asking questions like; How do they sell rotisserie chickens so cheap? Has Costco ever had legal trouble with brands? How much do Costco employees get paid? What's the weirdest thing you can buy in costco? Where was the first store built? and many more.
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I’ve recently started working for costco and it’s pretty awesome. Starting pay was $13 with Sunday’s paying time and a half. You are given 4 memberships to distribute between family. Health and dental benefits are amazing. Plus they help a ton with college students! You do have to get lucky when it comes to getting an interview.
SnipershotsxAZx that's actually pretty good! My only question are the hours good?
DetectiveMars hours are good...everyone starts part-time, but when I started there I was still getting 40+ hours.
my costco gives $17 starting pay. the hours are great. most people i work with get over 30 hours a week for part time and full time is 40+ hours
PNUT 8825 thanks I was considering applying to Costco since I'm in college and looking for a part time
17 pretty good just the line of base cost of living
my costco pays $17 starting pay and sundays i get payed $25. no other retailer even comes close to those wages. and literally all i do is stand at the door and say hi to people lol
As a Costco employee I can attest these are all true.
In Canada the wage cap for a regular employee (not supervisor or manager) is just under $27/h.
Benefits: Dental and Medical, eye glasses, paid disability leave (if you need surgery of whatever) and the company always hires internally and does all training internally.
No experience is needed when applying, all they want is someone who's willing to learn and works hard.
That moment when you have 2 degrees, and EMT cert, and work for a major federal contractor and still make less than the average wage of a Costco employee.
Become a chemical engineer like me.
I love how they said, "The CEO believes the workers should have a living wage" and it just sad that other corporate executives do not think likewise.
Remember what made Henry Ford his fortune......he paid enough wages to his workers so THEY could buy the cars they built and guess what...the whole dam country profited......that basic economic ethic is today sadly absent in most companies whit overpaid incompetent CEO'S!
And then all those people working at Walmart, would no longer have a job, as Costco has very high standards, and little turn over, and etc etc etc. There is a reason they pay what they do. The people EARN it.
They forgot the killer food court... ill admit there is many a time I swing by Costco just to grab a pizza or hot dog :)... there is something to be said about a company that wisely uses the loss leader strategy to get people in [cheap food court, rotisserie chickens, oddball items...] but hey it works.
Calvin Witt That pizza is some of best I've ever had !
justin denney-hall Agreed... $2 for a BIG slice of combo and I am set! I do wish soft pretzels came back... those were amazing!
Calvin Witt My nearest costco is out of town so when I'm in the area I get a whole box of their pizza which is pretty cheap for the size of box LOL ! And I don't remember the name of the website but I read an article which referred to it in effect as being a major pizza franchise hidden within a massive supermarket I love that description,
Pizzas are meh hot dogs in the other hand are great
There hotdogs, pizzas, and ice creams are great, but every time I go, I get a churro. Better than everything else in the food court. Yep. They’re that good. Also, their take and bake fettuccine Alfredo, Asian salad, and Asian wraps from the take home section, are also good.
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I worked at Costco as a (parking lot attendant) for 5 months before I had to move, I made 12.75 an hour CND +$1 an hour more on Sundays, it was the best job I've had so far... help lift heavy objects into vehicles/push carts to the store front, and best of all I only had to talk to people if I was helping them with something.
They are closed on Thanksgiving, New Year's Day, Easter, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, and Christmas Day.
Please Post a video about the Top 5 things you didn't know about Costco and talk about 1.) the annoying and frustrating long lines at the register 2.) Can not find regular everyday supplies 3.) Problems with the membership fees/prices 4.) The one about the branding of items and some vendors don't want to sell products in Costco(Costco gets in trouble with a lot of venders selling unauthorized products). And the biggest problem that people don't know about Costco is that they DO NOT treat employees well.
I worked for Costco for 28 years before I resigned, I never got promoted, my job title never changed and employee benefits are less than average (also, benefits are 3rd party companies, so you have to deal with separate businesses to use them, you can't work with a Costco department to use the benefits, hope that made sense)
The list on the GREATNESS of Costco that you have is data from 1996, this list does not reflect the current working conditions of Costco.
Ohhh, and the CEO (Singeal who I love, he is a great man) resigned in 2010, the new CEO is NOT a Singeal type CEO, maybe that why Costco is not doing well as when Singeal was CEO.
As a kid you know you just went for the samples.....
Show some love to the CDS and Maintenance workers when you go to Costco. They have to put up with a lot of crap from members and managers alike.
Baggy Trousers I worked as a CDS person for Costco, and it's not that easy, so you are spot on!
Was the CDS room directly across from the maintenance room? Trying to figure out if the layout is as uniform as they say.
Baggy Trousers Yes it's all the same layout. I have worked all the stores in Colorado.
That's really nifty. Makes it difficult to get lost. Still wish they'd put flag-type signs above the bathrooms to show which is which. I am become the human signpost.
As of 2015 they raised their minimum wage to $13 an hour
Topped out full time I make over 50k a year
Two bonuses a year worth $2500 for what seems to be no reason when you get it which is awesome.
Great benefits with dental at a low cost.
All these things you can make just by pushing carts and boxing peoples items.
I love my job
bman b whats the deal with background checks and drug test
That's amazing. Gotta admire a company who cares about their workers. I worked at The Big W and well they didn't pay anything and the job I did destroyed my body and I cannot work a very physical job anymore. I hope W wakes up one day.
Mr Cupcake you think that’s good part time at Costco Aus making $24.20 an hour as a stocker plus 1.2% on saturdays and 1.5% on sundays
J P been with the company nearly 3 years so started at about $22 plus I’m studying full time and weekend wise they are pretty flexible normally everyone wants to work weekends for the extra cash so it’s pretty easy to get them off
J P Australia
I am a costco employee and as of 2018 starting pay is 14 an hr. Its an amazing company if you can get in as they are hard to get in but once you do people tend not to leave.
They pay their employees exceptionally well.
Watching this right after my shift at costco lol
Very interesting and informative cheers
Hey, love the new quality! 🤗
Welp I'm applying for a job at Costco tomorrow.
Graphic .J GL. Some of the managers are ass holes. Worked there for 4 years and the pay is great for a normal job, but the management is a 50/50. I get "spoken to" if I even pull out my phone to check the time.
Graphic .J don't do it , I work there and they only promote their friends. You'll be part time forever
So become their friend. Duh.
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I already knew about most of these facts BC my mom works there. I live right by the first Costco that was an airplane hangar. Great vid BTW!
I love Costco! Their employees are pretty great & helpful! I gave up my sams club in 1995 after moving to South Florida! I never looked back !
Costco hotdogs are SO GOOD!
Yep and the pizza as well
*_PREACH, BABY_*
Andrew Neal and chicken bake
they literally make the hotdogs from ingredients you can buy off the shelf. so just buy them and make it yourself lol
Oh geez that sounds like a lot of work though 😒 lol
I wanted to buy a car at Costco, but you have to buy two taped together.
Don't you mean a six pack?
WikdSeafood darn bulk products
I actually purchased 2 cars using my Costco membership. No haggling at the dealership!
Wait for it. It will come for real. As soon as the 1 place electric cheap cars gets approved in more regions in the US and Canada, Cosco WILL have some of them for sales.
The issue with actual fuel driven cars is the risks involved. They are already paying a lot in insurance. Having fuel driven car would push their insurance coverage sky-high and end up eating most of the profit from selling it.
As a matter of fact, Cosco do have Golf Carts available in specific regions. They already crossed the first step of selling vehicles in their stores.
GOOD ONE : )
I used to love to go to Costco as a kid on Saturdays. You could start at one end of the free samples and not have to buy dinner after. And the toy isle on Christmas was great.
I can be quick to criticise America, but one thing they have gotten right is shopping! I'm sitting here extremely jealous, I want a Costco in my country as well! And even their normal supermarkets are huge, lots of variety, lots of different brands of the same product so you can choose. Love it. Wish we had that here..
I love how he says it's essential for all Americans and I'm here like "there in Canada to"
In Canada at least, I started at $13 an hour and it went up since minimum was raised here not long ago. Raises are also time period based, meaning you're guaranteed a raise for how long you've been there.
I love Costco so much I used to work there as a demo sampler for three years. Then I left because it got a little stressful but I loved it so much. What I love about Costco
1 Free samples
2 Good prices on bulk
3 The Food court food is cheep and have a good price
4 They are also nice to there members
5 You can also have as many samples as you want
I think I’m gonna go get a job at Costco now!
And the bit about the rotisserie chickens is no joke! Omg!! SO good!! 😋
Going go get one tomorrow.
Used to shop at Sam's Club exclusively for several years, the moment I started going to CostCo and seeing how much better everything is, I never cared to go back to Sam's Club.
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You guys are so weird
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Costco for life!!! :).
I work at Costco and i can tell you that everything mentioned on this list is true.
Sssyzokmareth everything is fast paced. I work in rotisserie so i handle and cook all the chicken. There's a lot of prep work that we help out with sometimes. Especially during the holidays and Superbowl. And then there's the cleaning obviously. You get benefits, insurance, 401K plan and a bunch of other good perks. The longer you stay, the better they get.
Welcome to Costco. I love you.
I love the prices of the glasses in Costco's optical department!! I paid $209 for a pair of bifocal glasses frames included! Other optical stores charged twice that much, sometimes more.
The first “Costco” Warehouse was built in Seattle,WA. You can see a wall that was part of the original warehouse inside. Then go get a polish and a drink for $1.50!
I just finished an 8 hr shift there and this is the first thing i see
*My friend met his wife at Costco. She was buying 5 gallons of mustard and he was buying 5 gallons of Ketchup. It was a match made in heaven.*
The pizza in the food court is so good!
Yes, I agree with your picks for things I didn't know about Costco
I work there. One thing about the hotdog. It's $1.50 with a drink. The original price from the 70s and it's not going up anytime soon. We joke at work that if they do raise the price. We all should find new jobs cause Costco must be going bankrupt.
Lol, watching this while eating Costco's Rotisserie Chicken XD
Costco chickens are also significantly larger than the ones sold at other supermarkets like Shoprite and Stop & Shop. A while back one of them had a sale where if you bought ten packages of instant mashed potatoes (small ones, not the large boxes), you got a free chicken. They were about half the size of the ones from Costco. I looked through all the ones they had and they all looked pretty scrawny.
They really don't like you looking around their store if you're not a member. If you don't show them your card, it's either leave, go to customer service for a temp card, or have security remove you if you walked past the guy.
At least that's how the one near me is.
When I was a child my mum took me to Costco and I immediately thought: THAT IS WANT I WANT TO DO.
3:26 is when i first heard of costco
5 has had conflict w big name brands 0:40
4 first store was an airplane hanger 1:27
3 sells 157k rotis chickens a day and losses $30-40 million a year doing (4.99/unit is less than they buy them for) 2:10
2sells crazy items 3:13
1pay employees well ($11.50/hr in 2013) (median wage of 21/hr) 3:53
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Wow what a great company! Brilliant! Respect!
If you’re not from America and don’t understand what costo is like:
It has everything. Fish, toilet seats, those fluffy cat towers, car tires, Gluten free chicken nuggets, seaweed chips, toilet paper, dairy, cakes, fruit, etc
My sister inlaw graduated college and stayed with them in customer service because tgey gave her a huge raise. She loves it there. I wanted to work there part-time, but they required you to work every weekend. I couldn't because me and my wife divorced and I had my little one 2 days a week and every other weekend. I really wanted it, because for a part-time gig tge starting pay was great, but my daughter came first, she needed daddy quality time to be raised right.
Relative works at Costco. It is really really hard to get promoted. They pretty much work on the seniority system and he has been beat out a bunch of times by someone who has more time in with the company. He has a degree in business, works incredibly hard, and is really smart. His store management loves him but won't promote him. They throw him a bone every so often to keep him from quitting. After 4 years he will be Seasonal Front of the Store Supervisor or something like that over the holidays. He is excited. He would be a manager making big bucks anywhere else but he sees the Costco Store Manager's wife driving a Bentley and gets pumped up. He'll get there some day.
The store on Morena Blvd. in San Diego was originally a Price Club. It was bought from Saul Price and his son in the 80's. If it was ever an aircraft hanger it beats me where they fit in the landing strip. It is surrounded by high hills on one side and the railroad and a mountain on the other. No place for a landing.
Costco's in Illinois start at $13
As long as Costco takes care of its employees; I will always be a loyal customer and supporter. Hell I buy more crap I dont need there, just because of the chickens, samples and selection.
"Welcome to Costco! I love you!"
I'm waiting for the gigantic stuffed bears to come back. We got a chihuahua puppy that loved stuffed toys.
By far the best retailer to work for if you work hard. Stating wage is now 13.50 with full benefits including amazingly priced healthcare. Time and half for everyone that works on Sunday. The only downside is it gonna take you five years or more to go from part-time to full-time
I been to Costco with my aunt many times like every weekend and go their to buy a big pizza pie :p
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Costco Churros: as good as life.
I love Costco. I currently work at Amazon. My fallback plan, after I reach the ripe old age of 50 was to go to Kroger. Hmm... Currently at Amazon for 11 years to date. Approaching 37 years of life of existing.
42% more pay plus benefits then sams club ?! Holy cow that's all I needed to hear! As they say if you treat your employees like crap like Wal-Mart/sams club (same company) there more likely to take stuff from the store and just do an ok job. Costco is smart in this way , quality employees comes with quality livable wages.
Why would you buy a Tiffany ring at Costco.
i think the point is, you could put anything in that sentence: 'why would you buy a casket at costco, a piano, an emergency kit..... i know some of those things were just jokes, i dont have better examples, never been there....
Michael Phillips well you can buy a casket at costco...lol
Question is. Who doesn't want to buy a Tiffany's ring at Costco!? Costco is the shitz nitz!
Half the price, then when at Tiffany's? I mean you're right, who the fuck would want to save three grand.
If you are going to buy one anyway and you happen to have a Costco Executive Membership, the points count towards your annual refund. You may also get a better deal in the process. Double win. I doubt Tiffany's would sell their brand at Costco these days. Better to get from another Costco-distributed brand that's just as good.
You should do a top facts about stop & shop
They don't hire business school graduates
me, an undergraduate: aww dam
I work at Costco and I'm loving these comments
Great thing about costco is you don't need a membership to get prescriptions from their pharmacy, and the dispensing fee is low.
did he just say that minimum wage is $7.25 an hour? here in Oregon, minimum
wage is $10.25 an hour. I love Costco's free samples!! I have never seen caskets
in my local Costco before. I also love their rotisserie chickens!!
Fuck Toys R Us! imma see if my local Costco's hiring now
I used to live by the first Costco! I’ve actually been to it!!
I work at the cell phone kiosk inside costco, so we're just vendors but yeah, they get paid well and it's a solid gig. The managers are mostly all solid too.
The deals they have on the phones is nuts too idk how they can afford to do it, I didn't even know until I started working there.
But they make their money from memberships not from what they sell really
So much better than the exploitative labor practices of Wallyworld and Sam's Hell. And it shows in the attitudes of Costco employees, who are always upbeat and super-helpful.
The first one was in San Diego? Wow cool
Wow I didn’t know they paid employees like that.. time to shop at Costco more
Best Pizza They Have.
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The pharmacy should have been on that list. You don't have to be a member to use the pharmacy, and the prices are extremely low compared to other pharmacies. Example - Oxycodone is $90 at Cosco, $550 at Walgreens,
Hikaru Katayamma mmmmmh oxycooodooone
When I was unemployed after an accident, Costco saved my sanity. W/o insurance, there was no way I could afford a majority of my scripts, much less the pain-free candy. :)
Costco originated in San Diego. Another gift to the world from my beloved home town.
Considering there are no Costcos in my area and I've never been in one, this video is going to have an easy time delivering
I buy the rotisserie chicken weekly to feed it to my dog (to mix w/ his kibble). I only eat at the food court if I'm really hungry, Bought a Yamaha very baby grand keyboard their for about a third of their regular cost. Bought a ottoman that converts to a bed for about $50. Kirkland vodka is good, especially considering the price (currently $13). I've had an Executive membership for years and it pays for itself.
Like most stores peruse the perimeter to find thing the want get rid off, their might be something you like (e.g. keyboard, ottoman).
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Starting wage is now 13.00 per hour and bottom top out rate is 22.50 an hour
Holy shit... I have worked WAYYY harder jobs for shit money. Thank you for this information! I am going to seriously try to get a job at Costco. I would gladly drive an hour to work at the one in the city I drive to weekly anyway!
WaRLoKWYATT the few people I know that work at Coscto like their jobs. And the seem to do well moneywise
I work at costco in california. You start at $13/hour with benefits. If you work in a clerk position like the deli, you start at $13.50. You get a &0.25 raise every 1000 hours. Its a smooth job as long as you do what your supposed to.
Zechi Gonzalez where in california are you from? i work at costco in the bay area starting pay is $17 an hour $25 an hour on sundays. literally what i do is stand at the entrance and check memberships and say hi
WaRLoKWYATT- I wish you good luck and sincerely hope you get a job with Costco! By what you stated,it seems you have the drive and determination that Costco appreciates. Take it from this old gal who started when Price was still in the name and recently retired(most of the employees on this forum probably weren't even born yet ;). They are a great company to work for.
P.S. The wage caps I've seen mentioned between $25-27 an hour aren't exactly accurate. They forgot bonuses, profit sharing,and etc. depending on length of employment and position. So basically what I am saying is, even in a standard position you can far exceed those numbers.
Can you buy just 1 casket or do you have to buy a 2-pack? And how long does it take to get a casket? I don't want to be lying around the house stinking it up for a few weeks waiting for the casket.
Welcome to Costco, I love you
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I'd only heard of Costco through a Hawaiian comic strip. And I could never go to the one in Mishawaka, because it's far off the bus route.
bonus FYI, they also have stores in other countries like Australia...
Actually minimum wage at Costco as a 2016 is $13 an hour.
I love free samples 🙃
Read the book "the big squeeze", all they did was praise Costco, and put down Walmart for the way they pay and treat employees. The top CEO only makes $100,000 a year. They say the only people who hate Costco are the share holder
The only thing I don't like about Costco is that it doesn't have labels when you want to look for something.
Good food at a cheaper price is always a winner in the customers stomach
they're able to pay more because each worker can produce more. It takes far less time to park a pallet of Coco Puffs then it does to hand stack multiple sizes of Coco Puffs on shelves
Costco is the best company ive worked for...im a forklift driver for costco and im planning to stay here 20-30years
I work at a Costco in Canada and the only thing that’s not true is that we lose money but the rest is pretty accurate
The number one fact on this list is the reason why I have had nothing but great service at costco.
Cosco is awesome! :D
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I go to Costco and stock up on everyday items once a year. I buy in bulk and save thousands of dollars by buying in massive bulk.