Thank goodness I only needed to get my prescription-

[DP]

At Costco. The line was as long as the building. Almost into the dealership next door. Yes, waiting customers are staying six feet apart, but I didn't ask how long the wait was and it's cold today with a brisk wind blowing (we had a little snow last night!). When you get to the outside doors they have cattle chutes set up just within before you actually get in the store where they check your card.

Inside, the lines waiting to cash out were way back there. Yes, six feet apart as the employees were maintaining the distancing. But all I needed was my 'scrip so I could go right in. Then I figured I should fill up since I was there, even tho I still have 3/5ths of a tank.

$1.09.9. The station on the corner near my house has it for $1.49 cash and $1.59 card...

[Acer]

Thankfully, my pharmacy has a drive-through.

[Ombligo]

Thankfully my mail order scripts arrived with a six month supply on March 20

[Markintosh]

Costco is on my list of "not for a long time"...

[NewtonMP2100]

.....local news had the same story about local Costco......why did people wait so long to shop there.....??


......shouldn't the line be dwindling......???


....at Costco you buy in bulk so you basically buy once and you shouldn't have to shop for a few months.....where are all these people who are continually shopping there coming from......??

[Buck]

Because it's fun shopping at Costco. And in bad weather you can get a few thousand steps in. No free samples anymore though.

[Rick-o]

We have a Rite-Aid in our little town, but last week I went one town over to fill a 'script because their Rite-Aid had a drive through.

It was worth it.

[RgrF]

Gave up on big box pharmacies a long time ago. Our little local stand alone, one where the pharmacist is the owner, is an in and out breeze. They even bring the scripts out to the car if you prefer.

[GGD]

What time of day was this. My experience recently has been that the lines only occur just before a store opens, people who think there will be lots of people wanting to get in and get there early and start a line.

About an hour after the store opens when all of the people who had lined up get in, the lines disappear.

I experienced this at Costco two weeks ago with Senior hour, got there early, waited in a line around the block, and when I was leaving the store an hour after getting in, at around the start of their normal business hours, there was no line at all. My takeaway was that Senior hour was a bad idea unless you're trying to buy something in short supply, and it's best to go a little later when there's no lines and the stores are less crowded.

[rgG]

I went to Costco this morning for the first time since this all started.
I purposely did not go on senior day.
I got there about an hour after opening, also on purpose.
No lines to get in, no long line at checkout.
It was pretty busy, but not like a pre-pandemic busy. It was a little hard to maintain 6’ at all times because of the width of some of the aisle, but mostly just a quick pass by someone if not 6’.
I wore my real mask, that thankfully has a valve so my glasses aren’t fogged, but it really irritates my face and I could hardly wait to get it off, once I was in the car.
Gas was $1.39, so I filled up. It is around $1.78 elsewhere.
I got most of what I wanted and I scored some on sale Easter Candy, so that was a nice surprise.
I wanted to get some plants, but most of them looked kind of sad, like they needed to be watered, so I passed on those.
I usually love poking around Costco, but this trip wasn’t really fun, for obvious reasons and the mask was very uncomfortable.
The number of people wearing masks was about 50/50, but this store is in an area where I am not sure they still believe this is a serious thing, so there is that.