Steak
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Wow, I don't think I've logged into this form in over 8 years! But with what happened today, I remembered this used to be a good place a while ago.
Been going through a real hard time recently with a sick child who is receiving care out of state with my wife right now. They've been gone for over five weeks. H s had issues for 7 years now and it has really worn me (and my wife) down to the bones. Just feeling bad and stressed out so I figured I'd go and walk around Costco just to chill out for a little bit and maybe purchase a few things. Huge fan of Costco and spend a lot of money there over the course of a year. I've never had a bad experience and everything I get from there is top notch.
Well anyway I'm walking in today probably about 45 minutes before closing time and there were still people coming in. There's a big guy wearing a Covid mask checking membership cards. I show him my card, he looks at me, nods his head and I say thanks. I walked past him about 10 to 15 feet as I'm putting my card back into my wallet. I hear this loud, sir!, Sir!. I'm thinking to myself, is the guy talking to me? so I turned around and he's looking straight at me.
I said, yes, he says, do you have a firearm on you? Mind you, he's speaking pretty loud because I'm at least 15 feet away and everyone is looking at me. My first instinct was to lift my shirt all the way up to my chest and turn around and I said, No. He's like oh OK I thought I saw a bulge.
I walk into the store and I could feel my hands start shaking and my head and ears getting very hot. I'm already not doing good and this just put me over the top. I walked over, past the registers and asked to speak to a manager. Some guy who had a name tag on and the title general manager under his name, asked me what happened. When I explained it to him, he said oh no I'm sorry. I said, why would he do that? He said well, as you know, we have a policy of no firearms and if he thought he saw something that's why he asked you. I said that's not acceptable I know what the policy is. If I was carrying an open carry firearm on my side, then I understand. But who is he and what training does he have to try to decipher who's carrying a concealed firearm. He's like well he used to work security a long time ago and from what I know he's pretty accurate. I said you tell me exactly what training he has through Costco and what your specific policy is with regards to people asking members out in the open. He started to stutter and then backtrack.
I then said this is absolutely unacceptable. What's going to be done about this? He's like well, I guess I will have a talk with him. I said that's not good enough. I'm not going away until I'm assured, this is going to be taken care of. This is embarrassing and how he did it was extremely unprofessional. I said if my wife was with me and he thought she had a bulge, what is she supposed to do? Lift her shirt up to her bra and show everybody? I said I want to make a formal complaint. He ended up walking me into some back office and I filled out some paperwork and he said this will go to the store manager and we will talk with him and someone will follow up with you. He asked me if there's anything that I want. I said no I'm not here to take anything from you. I don't even know what you're referring to. He tried to offer me a pizza or a drink from the food court and I declined.
What is your take on this and how it happened? I was just taken off guard and in total shock. I guess I could've just said none of your business and kept walking. What was he going to do? Throw me up against the wall and frisk me? I did respond back to him right after he asked, and I said well maybe I should carry one considering all the crime that's going on nowadays, and he just caught his head to the side. At any rate, figured I'd post because I'm still irritated four hours later
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Been going through a real hard time recently with a sick child who is receiving care out of state with my wife right now. They've been gone for over five weeks. H s had issues for 7 years now and it has really worn me (and my wife) down to the bones. Just feeling bad and stressed out so I figured I'd go and walk around Costco just to chill out for a little bit and maybe purchase a few things. Huge fan of Costco and spend a lot of money there over the course of a year. I've never had a bad experience and everything I get from there is top notch.
Well anyway I'm walking in today probably about 45 minutes before closing time and there were still people coming in. There's a big guy wearing a Covid mask checking membership cards. I show him my card, he looks at me, nods his head and I say thanks. I walked past him about 10 to 15 feet as I'm putting my card back into my wallet. I hear this loud, sir!, Sir!. I'm thinking to myself, is the guy talking to me? so I turned around and he's looking straight at me.
I said, yes, he says, do you have a firearm on you? Mind you, he's speaking pretty loud because I'm at least 15 feet away and everyone is looking at me. My first instinct was to lift my shirt all the way up to my chest and turn around and I said, No. He's like oh OK I thought I saw a bulge.
I walk into the store and I could feel my hands start shaking and my head and ears getting very hot. I'm already not doing good and this just put me over the top. I walked over, past the registers and asked to speak to a manager. Some guy who had a name tag on and the title general manager under his name, asked me what happened. When I explained it to him, he said oh no I'm sorry. I said, why would he do that? He said well, as you know, we have a policy of no firearms and if he thought he saw something that's why he asked you. I said that's not acceptable I know what the policy is. If I was carrying an open carry firearm on my side, then I understand. But who is he and what training does he have to try to decipher who's carrying a concealed firearm. He's like well he used to work security a long time ago and from what I know he's pretty accurate. I said you tell me exactly what training he has through Costco and what your specific policy is with regards to people asking members out in the open. He started to stutter and then backtrack.
I then said this is absolutely unacceptable. What's going to be done about this? He's like well, I guess I will have a talk with him. I said that's not good enough. I'm not going away until I'm assured, this is going to be taken care of. This is embarrassing and how he did it was extremely unprofessional. I said if my wife was with me and he thought she had a bulge, what is she supposed to do? Lift her shirt up to her bra and show everybody? I said I want to make a formal complaint. He ended up walking me into some back office and I filled out some paperwork and he said this will go to the store manager and we will talk with him and someone will follow up with you. He asked me if there's anything that I want. I said no I'm not here to take anything from you. I don't even know what you're referring to. He tried to offer me a pizza or a drink from the food court and I declined.
What is your take on this and how it happened? I was just taken off guard and in total shock. I guess I could've just said none of your business and kept walking. What was he going to do? Throw me up against the wall and frisk me? I did respond back to him right after he asked, and I said well maybe I should carry one considering all the crime that's going on nowadays, and he just caught his head to the side. At any rate, figured I'd post because I'm still irritated four hours later
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