“There is one lady who comes in every single day and fills her purse full of samples. She usually snatches the whole tray, nobody can stop her! Nobody cares… she brags about it and even shows people all the samples she has.”
“One time a [woman], about 45ish, came up behind me, grabbed my butt, and said, ‘Give it a try!’, which is kind of our motto.”
“Once I was giving out Ferrero Rocher and this 15-year-old took nine trays worth. That was 63 candies and about 50 bucks worth of product, right into his pockets.”
In 2015, a 78-year-old man was sent to the hospital after he reached for a Nutella sample when a younger guy grabbed the remaining samples. The man said, “What are you doing? Let me eat this one! He hit me and the blood started.”
“The employee makes the sandwich which takes like 5 minutes and cuts it into quarters. This [b*tch] takes every [f*cking] quarter and starts walking off to give it to her family even with us behind her. I have a Larry David Curb Your Enthusiasm moment and start going ‘What the hell are you doing?’ and get into an argument over the social norms of Costco free samples, arguing with this [b*tch] and asking the employees why they allow this [sh*t] to happen, where people can take as many samples as they damn well please, even clearing out an entire tray with a line behind them. Eventually, a manager gets called over and I get asked to pay for my items and leave, but I’m welcome back.”
“One day [my friend] was sampling trail mix and decided to eat his lunch, a Costco chicken bake, at his kiosk. When he turned around to talk to a customer for a second, a 10-year-old scooped it up. The kid was just standing there, staring at my friend while he ate it.”
“One time I had a family of four stand next to my cart for 45 minutes when I was sampling pizza and literally have dinner … That’s not okay.”
After reports that she had been acting strange, Costco sample lady Mhai Scott became even more upset when she ran out of pizza. She started waving a knife and scissors around, and the scuffle ultimately ended with police shooting her in the store.
“I was making pancakes, and a woman took a couple straight out of the skillet. She burned herself on half-cooked pancakes, and then complained that I burned her.”
“He didn’t speak English very well and was gesturing with his closed fist. I put my hand out and he dropped about six pieces of trash right into my hand. I admit that was one of the few times my demeanor broke.”
