I go to Costco. I want to renew my membership. I haven't been a member for a few years because I lived in a Costco-free zone but now there is Costco. I just want the basic membership. That's all I want. I don't want to be upsold, I don't want the super deluxe special extra, I just want the basic membership. They take me to woman behind a desk who proceeds to tell me on and on about the benefits of their business class membership. I keep saying I don't want it. She keeps saying but there's this and that and I keep saying I don't want it. This goes on and I'm starting to get exasperated. Finally, FINALLY, she relents. This was about two months ago, and I've shopped at that Costco twice now. So I went to a different Costco with my brother, one that's 1500 miles from my Costco. It's his Costco. I see an expensive item, a drone, and I've read about it and been wanting to buy it, so I did. But the drone is not actually there: I have to get a card and give it to the lady and she goes and fetches it from the armory and brings it to another woman, the woman over there. After I pay, they tell me to go to the woman over there to get my drone. I do, and she starts trying to upsell me on their business class membership, telling me I've already spent X amount at Costo since I joined up a couple of months ago --- and she was able to see on her computer the amount that I had spent on two occasions at MY Costco --- "and along with this 700-hundred dollar drone it would have almost paid for itself already ..."
And I'm going "HOLY FUCK, COSTCO ... LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE. I JUST WANT TO SHOP IN PEACE, GET MY CARTON OF 27 KIWIS AND MY DRONE AND GO HOME."
Fuck me. Shopping is such an ordeal now.
Rant over.