Costco Wholesale — Local services in Tukwila

Ok, Ok, Ok… I’m biased, it took us too long to understand/realize why Costco is amazing, but it is; 22years; (18 as an executive member), it’s worth the moneys as the rebate pays for the membership every year and we still have moneys left over.

With that, we’re 99 and 44/100ths happy with COSTCO; Meats, Traveling Sea Food Stand (West Coast), Fresh Tuna still Red, bulk cereals for the young’s/Old’ns, Traveling Meat Stand (Midwest/Tulsa) just awesome cuts, full up Tenderlions, Huge selections of adult beverages, Real Cane Sugar Coka-Cola, Specialty Cheese’s, Cellphone Kiosk, smoker pellets, fresh baked breads/ciabattas/muffins/croissants, good selection of gift cards, great selection of frozen staples as well, unbelievable check out speeds even when six carts deep.

And to top it off, most recently a whole leg of Jamón Serrano from Spain (see Picture), HAM FROM SPAIN, it was one of those purchases where you say to yourself, “It was a good thing that I didn’t have adult supervision with me (aka the Better 95 and 44/100ths)”. Anyway, bought it and we threw a Taps Party with 20 good friends. We made it through 1/12th of the leg ~1.25lbs, during the celebration. If’n I would have purchased just the sliced Serrano it would have set me back $65… Did I mention the leg was only 99Frog Pelts. JUST awesome, have to mention that COSTO had a three pack of Spanish Cheese(s) to accompany the Jamón… The spouse and I have been treating ourselves to grilled cristine jamón serrano sandwiches with manchego. Regarding the 99FrogPelts, If’n you look on this thing call the WEB, the same Jamón Serrano from a MULTI-Conglomerate is selling same, just a tad bit more, as in A TAD Bit More… BTW, if anyone cares we practiced TFB-COVID distancing. Side note regarding Spain and jamón serrano... I've been to Madrid and seeing 87 of these hanging in the store is awesome. Regarding safety, well they've been doing this for over 2000 years, certain they've figured it out

I have to mention that there are COSTCO’s in the UK as well. Having previously been on assignment for 16months, COSTCO was like a bit of USA, with noted slight changes due to the English being there. Food Court had Bangers and Mash and Baked Beans and a few others, much to my displeasure there wasn’t any haggis. Also my membership worked there just fine, no questions asked…and the parking spaces were Am-Er-I-Can Sized, full up honest to GOD parking spaces; you couldn’t hit the other cars side If’n you tried when you opened your door. Funny yet is to see, a SMART Car in a COSTCO parking slot, wish I still had that pic to show.

Now for the 66/100ths  … Produce, for a good portion its good, not great, and it seems to start to spoil sooner than the local grocer. In many cases the delta cost covers the loss but more than 40% vegetables get tossed and we do go through a good portion daily, alas it might be a bit too much bulk quantity. Stuff we loved but for some reason no longer available, or if so, only on rare-rare occasions, Adams Creamy Peanut Butter, Older Style Cargo Shorts; the ones with eleven pockets with buttons, The Most Beloved Polish Dogs at the Food Court

OK, ending on a sour note isn’t normally a good way to close on a business that in our minds is awesome. So I need to mention the COSTCO Business Centre in Fife. Definitely a different selection and well worth the travels for us. It’s a once every 6 week journey, again worth it for the difference in products. Lastly, COSTO EMPLOYEEs are great, I’ve/We’ve never had a bad dialog with anyone regardless of what they’re doing. If’n we only had another 2000 shares of COSTCO stock, but that’s another...

The stuff is pretty good here at this location though I would say if you need to use cash for the food court just be prepared to wait. They only have Visa card usable credit card stations and they don't really tell you that there's even a register behind the counter in order to take cash. Also, you have to place the order in person as there is no in cash option on the self checkout. For such a big company you think that Costco could have terminals across the board that use MasterCard and not just a select few... If you buy anything from their store you can use the MasterCard if you go through the main grocery line but you can't use the self checkout at the food court unless you have a Visa. Nor can you get gasoline from their gas station that by the way is across the street from this location itself. I would have to see though the layout of the store is a little bit easier to follow than a lot of other Costco's I've been to and it did have a lot of things that I was missing from my other Costco's. Overall I would recommend this Costco to other people as the prices are good and the staff is approachable. Also as a word of warning be prepared to wait a really long time if you need anything done at the optical center. It seems to be very short staffed every time we go there and a lot of the things that require a long time to finish the process of will make that wait even longer even though you're only three people away it took us an hour to get through the waiting. It was worse than the DMV for getting an expired...

I have loved Costco and the concept of a wharehouse since it opened as Price Club. I have purchased so many things at the various locations including abroad from food to prescription glasses to gasoline to tires to phones computers, TVs and furniture. I've made parties with their trays and sang many Happy Birthdays to their cakes. I've brought snacks to the kids soccer games and cupcakes to the show and tell. The kids would make Lemonade Stands to earn money to buy video games, toys, movies, coloring books and craft supplies.I also hear that as a company they treat their employees with fairness and respect. I have had to return many a things over the years for various reasons and they never gave me a hard time with any of them. The other thing I love about Costco is that they know how to grow with the market and provide us customers with the things we are asking for the most like Organic Food for example. They already have their own brand that makes at least one Organic version of most commonly used foods. They carry the best known brands even though they might not have the top of the line of each but what they have you can rely on when you purchase it. They employ people with disabilities and they have many elderly people giving away samples, makes it feel more like home. And let's not forget the friends that we meet when we go there, like these two friends we met yesterday. We're happy to have such a nice branch close to us, they have everything we need and then some. I'm a loyal fan can...