jhiggins8 said: Thanks OP. This is very helpful, because I do not get the book in the mail.
don't you need the physical coupon for this to work? or do you just ask at the membership counter? i have to renew my costco card and i don't know if the book is going to come by mail since it's been couple of months since the last annual membership had to be renewed. also, i think i read somewhere that i just need one coupon (any coupon) and that should be good enough to validate all the coupons in the book, is this true? thank you
patlanta
New Member
posted: Mar. 1, 2010 @ 8:20a
Thank you OP, really appreciate the .pdf file. Our Costco group doesn't receive either the magazine (maybe occasionally) or the coupons (never) in the mail so we're the ones bothering Customer Service and looking for "used" booklets.
active
Member
posted: Mar. 1, 2010 @ 8:22a
Thanks so much This is very helpful, because I do not get the book in the mail.
OP, thank you for posting this the best way (with scans or jpg). I really appreciate that.
GetThere
Happy Member
posted: Mar. 1, 2010 @ 8:49a
Coupons have the same bar code, so you just need one coupon and just scan once,and that will be applied to all your qualified items. My Costco puts one or two coupons on the self-checkouts, just grab and scan. If I forget what's on sale, I stop by the customer service and they let me borrow a coupon book. Of course, YMMV.
As a former member of sams club, its costco all the way. But that's only because I moved. If I still lived at the old place, sams was much more convenient and I would have sticked with them.
Costco has better selection, about the same prices, but carry much more healthier alternatives. Their meat and seafood is top notch, they have outstanding customer service, and great return policies. Costco all the way.
wolfgangdieter
Wacky Member
posted: Mar. 1, 2010 @ 9:51a
Appears COSTCO doesn't need the actual torn out coupons - the discount appears automatically for registered members (assume not for guests). Funny how they seem to have dumped BF Goodrich tires (a Michelin related company) for Bridgestone (a Firestone related company). I liked the old Kirkland tires - inexpensive and long wearing - but no longer a product.
Corky75
New Member
posted: Mar. 1, 2010 @ 9:57a
Another reason Costco is great... I learned this last time I used a coupon from their book. Once they scan just one coupon, their system automatically assumes you have coupons for every item you purchased and gives you all the discounts. Saves time, and makes perfect sense! Very often, the cashiers will 'find' you a coupon if you don't have one... which works great with their 'all coupon assumption'
wendyt
Senior Member
posted: Mar. 1, 2010 @ 10:08a
Costco has outstanding customer service?? I don't agree at all. My opinion is NO SERVICE at all at least in my area (City of industry & Chino Hills Ca.) The reason I shop at Costco, only because the price is good. I barly heard any employee working at Costco greeting,acknowledge or thanks to shoppers.It seems like they are doing the customer a favor getting the best price in town. I agree their return policy & price is very good though.
isobro said: Costco has better selection, about the same prices, but carry much more healthier alternatives. Their meat and seafood is top notch, they have outstanding customer service, and great return policies. Costco all the way.
wendyt said: Costco has outstanding customer service?? I don't agree at all. My opinion is NO SERVICE at all at least in my area (City of industry & Chino Hills Ca.) The reason I shop at Costco, only because the price is good. I barly heard any employee working at Costco greeting,acknowledge or thanks to shoppers.It seems like they are doing the customer a favor getting the best price in town. I agree their return policy & price is very good though.
isobro said: Costco has better selection, about the same prices, but carry much more healthier alternatives. Their meat and seafood is top notch, they have outstanding customer service, and great return policies. Costco all the way.
I do not consider "WELCOME to Our store" and "Thank you for shopping-byeee" as customer service.
If you have a problem with what you bought and how they treat you on that matters.
i recently got a postal mail on one of teh LED bulb I bought - saying the life advertised on the bulb was inaccurate and i could take the bulb back and they will refund.
Costco had life time reurn on electronics and people started returning TV they bought 5 yrs ago and they changed the policy to 90days
wolfgangdieter said: Appears COSTCO doesn't need the actual torn out coupons - the discount appears automatically for registered members (assume not for guests).
Thats not true. You need at least one of the coupons. Nothing is automatic. Perhaps for you coupon was scanned by check out empolyee.
Even though Costco wants you to have all your coupons, scanning one and getting discount on all valid purchases still works.
megasooner said: You folks like Sams Club or Costco best?
How about both? Produce is better with more variety at Sam's (not by much, but by enough for what my family shops for). Sam's often has "Quick sale" meat prices on cuts that we buy that save us over what Costco provides.
For electronics and other durable goods, I think Costco is better by quite a bit (though I'm not really knocking Sam's). The coupons are a nice touch at Costco, something Sam's does not do. And I like Costco's electronics warranties better than Sam's (though they used to be MUCH better).
But, ultimately, you have to look at convenience. The Sam's is close to my house, on my way home from work, and is ONLY crowded on Saturday afternoons and Sunday late morning/early afternoon. The Costco near me is further away from the house, harder to get to, and is a freaking zoo all weekend long and often like a United Nations bazaar. Nothing wrong with that, except that all the positives of multiple cultures goes out the window in the cramped, accelerated rudeness of a warehouse shopping environment without enough cart space, tact, and common courtesy. On non-weekends, Costco isn't bad at all to get into and out of quickly.
Why not do both if you can and the convenience is there?
bfrik said: Zanaba said: Couldn't you have posted these before I spent $20 too much on something... I guess I should have waited a couple weeks.
Take your receipt in with the coupon, they should reimburse you the difference. I've done that a few times. Yep, take your reciept; 30 day price guarantee.
PikaGiggles
Senior Member
posted: Mar. 1, 2010 @ 11:25a
Argh, I just bought some Bridgestone tires at the Firestone Family and Friends event last month. This blows that deal away.
ComeOnNow said: wolfgangdieter said: Appears COSTCO doesn't need the actual torn out coupons - the discount appears automatically for registered members (assume not for guests).
Thats not true. You need at least one of the coupons. Nothing is automatic. Perhaps for you coupon was scanned by check out empolyee.
Even though Costco wants you to have all your coupons, scanning one and getting discount on all valid purchases still works. Costco does NOT want all your coupons. One and only one is enough. Simply check the back of your coupon book, you will find that all B&M coupons have same code while all online coupons have same code as well. So there are really two codes for casher. The rest are really meant for customer's reference.
wendyt said: Costco has outstanding customer service?? I don't agree at all. My opinion is NO SERVICE at all at least in my area (City of industry & Chino Hills Ca.) The reason I shop at Costco, only because the price is good. I barly heard any employee working at Costco greeting,acknowledge or thanks to shoppers.It seems like they are doing the customer a favor getting the best price in town. I agree their return policy & price is very good though.
Costco's "No service at all" is the best service which means "No service is needed at all" Among all the serives, return policy is the only service I care about - No store beats Costco on this.
I switched from SAMs to Costco many years ago and never think of SAMs again.
Costco has better selection. And more important, their employees are inspired, and happy. I read the story that Costco pays its employees with higher wage and health benefit. So Costco has very low turnaround rate. You can see similar happy faces for years and if they are no longer their, they might move to another costco.
SAMs, on the other hand, copy the Wal-Mart strategy. I guess everyone knows their notorious low salary.
jtdeals said: billrubin said: sleepfaster said: In regards to the "checkout people cracking down on coupons and demanding each one," couldn't you just give them one and let them apply that? Maybe you forgot the others at home, couldn't bother to bring them all, etc.
But if I understand the system correctly, just having scanned that one coupon would give you all the discounts as though you had scanned them all since they all share the same barcode. Is that right, or am I fooling myself? I was going to ask this as well. Given that the register gives you all of the discounts with only a single coupon scanned. what exactly can the cashier do to you if you don't give them all of the coupons? Override the register and take off the coupon?? I strongly doubt they'll do that.I was at one store recently (that was not my home store) and I saw the cashier collecting the coupons and manually entering the discounts instead of scanning the coupon.
I just came back from the costco in Everett, WA and I forgot my coupon book, so I asked another customer for a random coupon that they would not be using (go the draino/declogger coupon). Wanted to buy the wantons and the vitamin water. Gave the coupon to the cashier and he scanned it after he rang up all my items, he flipped the coupon over and noticed that I did not have the draino in my cart, and told him I just wanted the discount for the wanton. He then goes that I would have to buy the draino in order for it to be used and manually took the discount off. I told him to just return the wantons. I still got the discount for the vitamin water. The cashier stated that they do collect them and send them back to the manufacturer. Seems like its a YMMV, pending on the cashier. He seems to be the only anal cashier that works there. He has had given me issues in the past and I should of known that he would do the same tonight. I have had cashiers at this store not care about which coupon I have had and seemed to have just thrown the coupon away. *shrugs* Going forward though, I will only be using one coupon per transaction, just in case I run into this sort of thing again. But thanks for posting up a scan OP. Green for your efforts.
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