A petty comment about my trip to CostCo yesterday afternoon:
It was not exactly senior citizens afternoon, but it was close. And some of the behaviors just puzzle me.
Several men, of a more advanced age than those in their 40s, push their carts down the very wide aisles but down the very CENTER of those aisles, making it necessary to stop until they realize they are sharing with others.
Add to that the companions of those men pushing carts, who walk and stop beside the cart, taking up nearly 3/4 of the aisle. And in a couple of encounters, finding them both stopping beside one of those "sample stations" completely blocking the aisles.
Everyone is very nice about it when they realize there is someone else there who needs to get by, but I have to wonder why there isn't some forethought about that fact. On a lazy day, customer-wise, walking down the very center of an aisle makes it much easier to take in everything on both sides. That's understood by most shoppers. But, on a very busy day, it's not realistic.
I know that free food samples are very, very popular. Yesterday, the sampling stations were mobbed. And they were in very high-traffic locations.
Sigh!
