Costco

Typical Costco, LOTS of bulk items. I have my favorites including the Chocolate Covered Macadamia Nut Clusters, FRESH seedless green grapes, etc., etc. AMERICA is still the place to live… AND shop.

I love this Costco mainly because I feel like it’s not as crowded as the other ones — every time I’ve gone there’s never a long line.
Plus, they have the most selection of Aidell’s chicken sausage!!! They have pineapple & bacon, spicy mango with jalapeño, chicken & apple and habanero with pepper jack! So delish!

Costco inside a mall??? How awesome is that. I love all Costco’s! I always go to different Costco’s because they would carry something that’s unique where no other Costco would carry. For example, they had Coconut Coffee (see picture). I bought a container and it’s a powdered mix and it’s pretty good. A little on the sweet side but if you add fresh coffee, it tastes delicious.
Did I mention that I love Costco??? :) :) :)

One of the best benefits of the Costco membership is their discounted gas. True, the price per gallon is wickedly low from a few years ago, but I still feel like royalty being able to get it for less. It’s great the gas station portion opens far earlier than the store. But there are many times when I’d love nothing more after fueling up my car than fueling up on the free samples. Those are first world problems, yo.

This Costco has a weird set-​up — it makes you understand that not all Costcos are alike. It’s inside of a mall which makes it less busy than the other Costco’s in the area. But the food stand is outside of the Costco and inside of the mall so the line is always impossibly long.
Also, I think the deli is lacking in comparison to the Costco’s in the west valley. This would probably be my third favorite Costco but it’s still awesome.

I do like making my routine trips to Costco to load up on needed items around the house. This Costco seems a bit more fun to go to since it’s located inside a mall. You can go through your normal shopping routine, then swing by this Costco for your household needs right after. Although, because it’s located in a mall, the parking can be a pain. But while you’re at it, you can go get cheap gas!

Costco offers great quantities for great prices, this we all know. But this review is for their customer service. The tire center has always been awesome, filling my tires with air and even replacing the hub caps for free and with no appointment. They always look out for their members and I have never been disappointed in the services they provide.

Not sure if this part of town is just a little more run down then normal, but this was not the best Costco I have been to. Pretty average, but the place felt more like a Sams club then a Costco. Not a fan of the area.

This Costco is so crappy. It is a really small store as far as Costco’s are concerned. There is an even smaller selection of merchandise, very slim on variety and consistency of brands. The parking here is a nightmare and you have to walk though Christown mall to enter… Boooo…

I will always avoid this location if possible. I love Costco in general, but this location is tough. The parking is limited and packed because they share it with a mall. You will walk a ways. There’s a crowd everywhere inside it seems, so it’s slow going to get around, and slow to check out.

Who doesn’t love Costco ?
Friendly staff, great samples workers!
Their food court is outside the Costco which is genius for the neighborhood they’re located in and makes it simpler to order food. Their pizza department was very accommodating to me when I had a very last minute pizza order.
Why not a 5? I can’t say I was wowed– but there’s nothing I have to complain about!

It’s a Costco so what else do I have to say. Great prices, great products, a food court with pizza or hot dogs if you’re hungry, cheapest gas in the area, I’ve been a Costco (Price Club) member since 1981 and I’ve shopped at different ones all over the country so its nice to have one so close to my house. Kirkland products are just as good as the name brands and I can always find what I need here whether its food, clothes, home items, vitamins, sporting goods, electronics, jewelry, or practically anything else. In fact, if I could just shop in one store for the rest of my life it would be Costco. If you’re not a member, you don’t know what you’re missing.

Ah Costco — the King of the Big Box Store! You can go and stock up on items you need and usually you don’t! Do you need a jumbo pack of toilet paper that you can store is a cabinet — yes. Do you need a 4-​pack of Life cereal when there are only 2 of you — probably not but if you manage to eat all that cereal before it goes stale then it’s a good thing you got all that toilet paper! The samples are terrific — the hubby and I often go to shop and get «lunch on the hoof» as we breeze through and then we usually love it but don’t need it bit buy it anyway! The clothes are good for good prices but the stock is hit or miss. The optical prices are good even without insurance taken. The best however is the gas. We definitely save our membership price in gas prices. Costco is great for businesses, large families and anyone wanting to save a buck.

Very disappointed in this particular location. I’ve had a Costco Amex for almost 10 years. As far as I know, it’s just always auto renewed my Costco membership. I’ve even used it in the last few months.
I forgot my card today. After waiting 10 minutes in the membership line because they only staffed it with one employee on a busy Sunday, I was told my membership expired over a year ago. The guy behind the counter didn’t really offer a next step, so I asked if I could renew right now. It was going to be $ 60, and I really didn’t want to spend that without checking with Amex about the status, especially since they are phasing out the Costco Amex.
I know they have the power to offer potential new members a one-​day membership as a test-​drive, so I’m disappointed they couldn’t offer the same to me considering I’ve been a member for a decade.
This particular location is also a huge test of your patience. It’s super crowded, other customers are generally rude, and parking is a cluster.
I’m not sure if I’ll be renewing my Costco membership, as I mainly just use Costco to buy meat and household goods, but I’m definitely not returning to this location.

This review is for the gas station–
the guy working was really wonderful and nice! They close at 7pm on the weekends but cars kept coming in and he very kindly accommodated all of them. Costco customer service at its best!

Let me start off by saying that Michael in the seafood department was one of the kindest most genuine people I had ever been helped by. He went out of his way to make sure I was taken care of, never did he seem fake or forced and he made my experience a great one. If that wasn’t enough, Linda at the front noticed I had iced seafood and went out of her way to get me an added barrier to make sure the condensation did not get on my car’s interior.
So now that I have said that: Whoever says that there is «no parking» here is obviously apathetic. Premium parking for me is shaded parking, and there is LOADS of it… If you are willing to walk. The only store that has more parking than here is IKEA. Stop being lazy, walking is good for you.

Thought this costco was sketch with it being a part of the mall but it’s surprisingly pleasant. Most costco stores are set up the same so it’s easy to locate items. On multiple occasions the employees have been able to answer questions. Today in fact, I had given myself a cardboard cut; sliced my fingers. Asked Christopher for a napkin and he quickly brought back an excess of paper towels and two bandages to match the appropriate amount of fingers cut.
TLDR; thought costco was sketch but as a whole — legit.

I’m a shameless lover of Costco. And this review is more a general review, but I’ll add some specifics, as this is where we shop.
As I understand it, their business model is a shining example of equality and worker appreciation. I wish more businesses would follow their example. Anyways, that’s a bigger picture thing than is really relevant to my review.
Aside from the company as an entity, Costco offers great products with an excellent promise of customer satisfaction. You buy it, you don’t like it, even if you’ve eaten/​opened it, you can return it for a full refund. Costco really values its customers. And very rarely have we purchased anything we didn’t enjoy.
I have one general observation and one complaint, that go hand in hand. Costco’s products sometimes seem to fade out, as in disappear from the shelves. It seems that this is due to two factors — either they’re not stocking it currently (or ever again) or they’ve moved it to another shelf/​aisle. Now, if it’s gone, that sucks, but that’s life. If it’s just been moved… that can present a problem because it is so difficult to find someone to ask. This is consistent with any Costco I have visited; there are plenty of sample table workers, but any time I’ve asked they remind me that they’re not Costco employees, and don’t know. So, if anything, I’d like for that to change. At present, they’ll ask you at check-​out if you had trouble finding anything, and then they’ll hunt it down for you — but at that point, I want to be done. (So four stars as a company)
Specific to this location, as others have mentioned, this is the only Costco I’ve ever seen that does not stand alone. It’s not a problem, but, when you’re looking for it, remember that this is a Costco attached to a larger mall. Parking is all right. There’s a narrow strip of parking (maybe 5 or 6 rows) directly next to the entrance, but that opens up into a much larger parking lot, you’ll just have further to walk if you park there. Finally, and maybe this is regional rather than store specific, but this location has the worst masses of people around the sample tables that I’ve seen. I know they’re a draw for many, but ten people waiting around the table, blocking the aisle, just gets old. (And four stars as a location)

Cheap gas! Only takes American Express at the pump though. Possibly your debit card but never tried.
But yeah, gas is cheaper here than around the area in any area. You’ll probably save that much money even if it costs you a membership. Oh yeah, you have to swipe your membership card to get gas too.

It’s not the biggest or highest echelon of merchandise among the Costcos in the area, and Chris-​town Spectrum Mall, home of the first Costco-​in-​a-​mall experiment is kind of «modest» in itself, so I’ll save that 5^th star for the bigger, uppity-​er ones because despite my most fervent lifelong hopes, apparently size does matter. This is however my most regular haven for lifetime supply quantity shopping, and I have no complaints and plenty of compliments for this store and staff.
Much of the staff has been there some years now and we know each other on sight, and some by name. It’s kind of nice to go somewhere where if not everybody, at least somebody knows your name (Thanks, Dan [and «Cheers”]). Hard working people, clean store, and a well-​stocked men’s room that’s always clean.
It’s worth joining just for the rotisserie chicken alone. Have you tried one of those dried dead birds from one of the groceries with the outdoor smokers? Blackened and so dehydrated you’d think the bird had been taxidermied? This isn’t that. Costco’s big plump, juicy, perfectly cooked, perfectly seasoned every time chicken, and still (I think) $ 4.99, is justifiably famous in itself. It’s consistently just ridiculously good. They’ve got the formula down, and if you’ve got a formula that works — don’t mess with it.
This store also has outlying gas pumps and tire shop, pharmacy, optometrist and optical department, photo services, inkjet cartridge refills, groceries of course, and more. There’s a reason (or many) that the 800 number for Costco is on my phone as «My Beloved Costco», and despite the increased panhandling in the parking lot at Spectrum lately, this store is one of those reasons. Just don’t mess with my bird.