A wife who says her husband goes to Costco “more than once a week” throws him a surprise birthday party at the food court. (Emma Blevins via Storyful)
Costco shoppers are up in arms online following recent reports that a popular in-store feature has been removed at various locations.
Signs suddenly appeared over the holidays showing how shared coffee grinders are no longer offering those who want to grind their coffee beans for free before returning home.
Reddit user @phteven1989 revealed the unpleasant news last week with a photo of a sign that read, “Attention Members: Coffee Grinders No Longer Offered.”
“Uh oh, I don't know what happened … but we lost our mill points,” said a Reddit user in a post last Tuesday.
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Costco displays a sign that says, “Attention Members: Coffee Grinders No Longer Offered.” (Reddit/@phteven1989/Fox News)
Another Reddit user confirmed the revelation in another thread, when a shopper couldn't find the service, which is usually found near pay stations and food courts.
“What happened to make them remove the mills?” asked user @StinklePink.
Both Reddit posts were quickly flooded with comments from fellow disappointed shoppers.
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Coffee grinders were often offered at Costco for shoppers to use freely. (Joe Yuan/Fox News)
While many shoppers welcomed the membership bonus, using it to quickly shred a full two-pound bag. Coffee beans Within a minute or less, a Reddit user who said they used to work at one of the Seattle locations speculated that the free service had been canceled due to poor customer usage.
“The millstones were broken at least once a week,” the employee, who goes by @Storkman1007 on Reddit, said in a post. “Even with signs to double grind, people do it throughout the day and clog the holes.”
“We also had paint brushes to clean the floors and keep the machines clean, and people would drop the brushes and grind them in their coffee,” the employee continued. “These mills cost several thousand dollars each.”
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Customers line up at checkout counters at a very busy Costco store in Queens, New York. (Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)
Fellow Redditors also revealed that their local warehouses often had damaged coffee grinders.
“Someone put chocolate covered coffee beans in a coffee bean bag at my local store,” commented one user in a Reddit thread.
“Double grind, grind nuts, drop brush,” another Redditor posted. Members cannot be trusted not to fundamentally disrespect the property they own.
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| cost | COSTCO WHOLESALE CORP. | 927.37 | +6.00 |
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A buyer commented on why their local store no longer carries the cars.
“We were next to the food court, so naturally someone was stuck hot dog In one of them, the consumer said: We no longer have coffee grinders in stock.
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While grinding beans at home is also an option, one shopper said buying whole beans isn't worth the effort.
“I will never buy their whole coffee again,” the user said. “That's a good price, but it would take forever to grind this amount at home. It's not worth my time for a discount.”
Pilar Arias of FOX Business contributed to this report.