Costco and COVID19
combined to make Silly happen during the Pandemic...
Ø Every day Costco makes it a practice to give away samples of food products they sell.
Ø Costco employees are assigned to prepare the samples, put them into little plastic cups and place the samples onto a tray for the customers to pick up and eat.
Ø The customers are then supposed to love what they have eaten and buy a large quantity of what they have eaten (Costco only sells large quantities).
Ø Many customers make it a practice of moving from one Tasting Table to the next Tasting Table to the next Tasting Table.
Ø Some of them returned to the same Tasting Table over and over, which I’m sure is a Violation of the Rules in the Costco Customer Grazing Manuel.
Ø I’ve even seen customers doing tricky things like removing their hats and cramming them into their pockets so as not to get caught double or triple sampling by the Costco Table Monitor.
Here’s where the
Boring came into play...
Ø During the Pandemic a plastic shield was placed in front of the samples of food and customers were allowed to look at the Tasty Sample Foods but they were not allowed to eat the Tasty Sample Foods.
Ø The Costco Table Monitor was not allowed to go in the Break Room and drink cocktails with little umbrellas in them.
Ø They had to stand behind the Plastic Shielded Sample Foods and do nothing.
Ø They had nothing to do all day but stand there and look at the Plastic Shielded Sample Foods and look at the Customers looking at the Plastic Shielded Sample Foods.
Here’s where the
Silly came into play...
Ø As the Pandemic was drawing down to a lower degree of crazy, the Sample Foods were again made touchable by the hungry customers.
Ø The Sample Foods were touchable again but a sign was placed on the table that told the customers, that Due To COVID19, they were not allowed to eat the Sample Food until they were Outside the Costco Store.
Ø I did not see a single customer take some Sample Food who ran out of the store to eat the Sample Food so they could return to the store and move on to the next Sample Food Table to get another Sample Food so they could run out of the store to eat the Sample Food and so on and so forth.
This sign was a Silly Sign. If the Run Out Of The Store Requirement had been a Federal Law, it would have been the most violated Federal Law since Prohibition.
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
