| "the absolute worst shopping experience I can think of" Indeed: * Short opening hours * checking the membership card at the entrance * cell phone salesmen inside * item locations change randomly * items randomly disappear for weeks at a time, as if Leonid Brezhnev was in charge of restocking * waiting at the exit for someone to check your receipt * for a while, they'd check your receipt at the self-checkout and then check it again at the exit * 1970s level IT, inaccurate inventory information Microsoft used to give a cash bonus for patents; I imagine Costco has a bonus program for new ideas to make the shopping experience worse. Some ideas: * throw lit firecrackers into the crowd * pour oil on the floor so people slip * complete darkness inside the store * every 10th person at the checkout has their credit card cut into pieces |