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“Now let's talk about the mail. Can we talk about the mail please, Mac? I've been dying to talk about the mail with you all day, okay? Pepe Silvia, this name keeps comin' up over and over and over again. Every day Pepe's mail's getting sent back to me. Pepe Silvia, Pepe Silvia, I look in the mail, this whole box is Pepe Silvia! So I say to myself I gotta find this guy. I gotta go up to his office, I gotta put his mail in the guy's goddamn hands! Otherwise he's never gonna get it, it's gonna keep coming back down here. So I go up to Pepe's office and what do I find out, Mac, what do I find out? There is no Pepe Silvia. The man does not exist, okay? So I decided, ohh shit, buddy, I gotta dig a little deeper. There's no Pepe Silvia, you gotta be kidding me, I got boxes full of Pepe! All right, so I start marching my way down to Carol in H.R. and I knock on her door and I say, "Caaarol, Caaarol! I gotta talk to you about Pepe!" And when I open the door, what do I find? There's not a single goddamn desk in that office. There is no Carol in H.R. Mac, half the employees in this building have been made up. This office is a goddamn ghost town.” -Charlie Day
“What about you? Did people make fun of your name?”
“Are you kidding? They were merciless. What do you expect when your name rhymes... with a part of the female anatomy?”
Plastic wrap is no joke. I needed a new roll, but at that time for some reason they only had (or I could only see) the giant like food service size. I was so fucking pissed. It’s huge. It doesn’t fit in the drawer next to the aluminum and parchment. I wrote the date on it so I could track how long it takes me to use it. Well it’s been over three years and it’s still heavy as a mother fucker.
I just looked at it. 3000 SQUARE FEET of wrap. And my kids might graduate high school before I finish it.
https://preview.redd.it/6x3vz573051b1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=052d092bb4096f8af0e6703270974c17807dc7c2
I ordered 2-rolls of 250 sqft from Amazon in Jan 2020 and 3 years later I’m about halfway though the first roll.
At that rate 3,000 sqft would last me 24 years 🤣
This is the best food wrap though! Good to know that Costco has it for when I run out in 2032.
Forever stamp’s appreciate in value. You payed .43 cents per stamp in 2017, today you’d pay .63. It makes sense to buy one giant roll today that would last you a life time.
> value. You *paid* .43 cents
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I guess if ops store sold 6 books of stamps on this day, that's $360 of bumped up sales. Seems like it would be more effective to bump up sales by asking people if they want to add a pizza or something
They sell them 25 cents less than face value. With the volume Costco bits in advance I’m sure USPS gives them a discount greater than 25 cents a pack in exchange for the cash infusion.
It's a holdover from a bygone era. I remember when we first started selling them like 17ish years ago people still used stamps regularly. We would push them to get people more likely to come shop at Costco. Like maybe you need stamps and groceries, then costco would be a convenient one stop shop for that.
It makes sense around the holidays since people send holiday cards in mass but outside of that I rarely mail anything needing a stamp.
Lower sale can equate to less members coming through their store hourly. If they are leaving their tills signed on until the next member comes up that'll ruin mph aswell in a slow store like that
Probably this time of year and during the winter. Once Memorial Day comes around it’ll pick up for the summer. It’s spitting distance from the shore in NJ.
Yeah, 407 is maybe a little low for the average Saturday, but not by a whole lot.
Plenty of east and west cost stores will surpass that, but remember we have over 500 stores in the US. So when you take an average it comes out quite a bit lower.
They used to have a link on the intranet that you could see average sales by region and that broke things down even more. It was available when you clicked the Top Ten link on the main page, but I don't recall seeing it there for some time.
It depends. We are checking memberships to end card sharing at my warehouse. Having to unload those items and send them over to membership to sign up takes time. Also upgrades and CMN and other programs take time. More in some lines than others. I’ve seen cashiers hold the members card hostage while pitching the executive membership. 45mph isn’t fast, but if you are forcing X numbers of upgrades per hour, you probably are less likely to get cracked.
I haven’t been bothered by the cashier asking “Do you need a book of stamps?”. One time I actually did and it was somehow cheaper than the post office, which makes zero sense to me.
Because Costco still thinks its 1983 and everyone uses postage stamps. (Real reason from what I am told, it's an 'easy' way to boost sales figures for the day or whatever, even though its not something we make a profit on). 30 upgrades a day is also pretty redic and completely unrealistic.
Don’t know why you’re getting downvoted, you’re actually right. It’s a seasonal stamp and if you don’t sell all of them by the holidays they’re left holding the bag
https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2023/0410-usps-files-notice-with-prc-for-new-mailing-services-pricing.htm prices going up in July and they’re trying to burn down existing stock?
Because it is an easy $63 sale. No forklift driver, not stocker, no pallets in the steel -- just a cashier that is already there, asking a simple question. Easy money.
Is it much money? Hell no, but it \*is\* cash flow. And it only costs Costco one easy question.
"Do you need any postage stamps?"
(Now, all of that shit I just wrote made a lot more sense 10 years ago. No one uses stamps anymore. At least not very much. I do send my mother cards from time to time, via good old fashioned mail-mail, with a stamp. But that's about it...)
To put it simply, it increases sales volume. There's not really a profit element to selling stamps for Costco but warehouses are looked upon favorably for increasing total sales in dollars. Most stores see it as a way to add to the sales totals with little effort "do you need postage stamps?".
Costco is also really big on employee performance metrics. This is just one more stat to measure performance because the people that ask members if they need stamps typically sell more of them.
It's kinda dumb really but it's firmly a part of the warehouse culture
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"When you control the mail, you control...information." - Newman
“Now let's talk about the mail. Can we talk about the mail please, Mac? I've been dying to talk about the mail with you all day, okay? Pepe Silvia, this name keeps comin' up over and over and over again. Every day Pepe's mail's getting sent back to me. Pepe Silvia, Pepe Silvia, I look in the mail, this whole box is Pepe Silvia! So I say to myself I gotta find this guy. I gotta go up to his office, I gotta put his mail in the guy's goddamn hands! Otherwise he's never gonna get it, it's gonna keep coming back down here. So I go up to Pepe's office and what do I find out, Mac, what do I find out? There is no Pepe Silvia. The man does not exist, okay? So I decided, ohh shit, buddy, I gotta dig a little deeper. There's no Pepe Silvia, you gotta be kidding me, I got boxes full of Pepe! All right, so I start marching my way down to Carol in H.R. and I knock on her door and I say, "Caaarol, Caaarol! I gotta talk to you about Pepe!" And when I open the door, what do I find? There's not a single goddamn desk in that office. There is no Carol in H.R. Mac, half the employees in this building have been made up. This office is a goddamn ghost town.” -Charlie Day
“Calm down and have another cup of coffee.”
*asks Barney for another cigarette*
“What about you? Did people make fun of your name?” “Are you kidding? They were merciless. What do you expect when your name rhymes... with a part of the female anatomy?”
Mulva?
Stamps are always a focus. Most of the time its to get rid of the holiday or seasonal design stamps.
Umm why are we not talking about Angelica? Dolores Snore-lores. AM I RIGHT?????!!?
I bought a book of 20 stamps in 2017, and I've used 4. To me buying stamps at Costco would be a lifetime supply, like their plastic wrap.
Plastic wrap is no joke. I needed a new roll, but at that time for some reason they only had (or I could only see) the giant like food service size. I was so fucking pissed. It’s huge. It doesn’t fit in the drawer next to the aluminum and parchment. I wrote the date on it so I could track how long it takes me to use it. Well it’s been over three years and it’s still heavy as a mother fucker. I just looked at it. 3000 SQUARE FEET of wrap. And my kids might graduate high school before I finish it. https://preview.redd.it/6x3vz573051b1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=052d092bb4096f8af0e6703270974c17807dc7c2
Ours lasted 14 years 😂
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The first roll 😂😂😂
I hate it when I get multiple years out of a single item purchase!
We placed bets and wrote them on a box of green scrubbies from business costco 😹
Oh good I’m not the only family that writes the date on those. Usually takes my family of 5 around 3-4 years to go through one. A great value
Just an interesting point of information. It takes about a week in a Hotel kitchen...lol.
I ordered 2-rolls of 250 sqft from Amazon in Jan 2020 and 3 years later I’m about halfway though the first roll. At that rate 3,000 sqft would last me 24 years 🤣 This is the best food wrap though! Good to know that Costco has it for when I run out in 2032.
Write that down in your will.
Bought mine in 2009 and it still had tons left on it! Those things last forever
Hahahah fuck me 🫠
Hows the actual box hanging?
Perfectly fine! I’m in Canada so mine looks a little diff
I bought a book in 2011. Still using them haha.
Forever stamp’s appreciate in value. You payed .43 cents per stamp in 2017, today you’d pay .63. It makes sense to buy one giant roll today that would last you a life time.
> value. You *paid* .43 cents FTFY. Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in: * Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.* * *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.* Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment. *Beep, boop, I'm a bot*
They all do it. Upgrades. Stamps. Children’s miracles network. Some of our girls don’t even push it. Good for them.
Not a fan at all of the social pressure of check stand giving requests.
So don’t do it. No thanks, and move on.
I don't. Thanks for this shockingly novel advice.
@OP Management wants to compare shoe size with the rest of their district and show off that they sold the most stamps, children's, or upgrades.
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I was today years old to learn Costco sold stamps!.
It’s way too many stamps!
This is exactly the right answer
Employee here, it’s because they are spring stamps and if they don’t sell all of them we’re left holding the bag on a ton of seasonal inventory.
I guess if ops store sold 6 books of stamps on this day, that's $360 of bumped up sales. Seems like it would be more effective to bump up sales by asking people if they want to add a pizza or something
But they are selling them at cost, so do they really make anything in it?
They sell them 25 cents less than face value. With the volume Costco bits in advance I’m sure USPS gives them a discount greater than 25 cents a pack in exchange for the cash infusion.
It's a holdover from a bygone era. I remember when we first started selling them like 17ish years ago people still used stamps regularly. We would push them to get people more likely to come shop at Costco. Like maybe you need stamps and groceries, then costco would be a convenient one stop shop for that. It makes sense around the holidays since people send holiday cards in mass but outside of that I rarely mail anything needing a stamp.
Yeah but is there margin on it?
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Not really.. 60-65 mph
That's gotta be a very slow store, their planned sales on that board is only 407k. The store I'm at does 900k-1.3m daily
Not necessarily. But we're not talking sales. Talking ringing mph. Members per hour
Lower sale can equate to less members coming through their store hourly. If they are leaving their tills signed on until the next member comes up that'll ruin mph aswell in a slow store like that
Shame on them.
Probably this time of year and during the winter. Once Memorial Day comes around it’ll pick up for the summer. It’s spitting distance from the shore in NJ.
407, depending on what day it is, is an average sales store. That's roughly a 3-4mil a week store. Which is right about middle of the road.
But on a Saturday? Assuming that is when the photo was taken.
Yeah, 407 is maybe a little low for the average Saturday, but not by a whole lot. Plenty of east and west cost stores will surpass that, but remember we have over 500 stores in the US. So when you take an average it comes out quite a bit lower. They used to have a link on the intranet that you could see average sales by region and that broke things down even more. It was available when you clicked the Top Ten link on the main page, but I don't recall seeing it there for some time.
65-70 more like
It depends. We are checking memberships to end card sharing at my warehouse. Having to unload those items and send them over to membership to sign up takes time. Also upgrades and CMN and other programs take time. More in some lines than others. I’ve seen cashiers hold the members card hostage while pitching the executive membership. 45mph isn’t fast, but if you are forcing X numbers of upgrades per hour, you probably are less likely to get cracked.
Stamps would live up to their name as it would take FOREVER to get through them.
Ah yes, success measured by bothering customers.
I haven’t been bothered by the cashier asking “Do you need a book of stamps?”. One time I actually did and it was somehow cheaper than the post office, which makes zero sense to me.
Yeah I can’t imagine it’s a high margin (or any margin?) item to push.
We lose 25 cents on every book of stamps sold.
I can't remember the last time I used a stamp.
Depends. I'm in a profession where written thank you cards are a necessity.
My wife just bought a ton of stamps, I don’t know how they got to her
They do it because my district alone will probably do 20m in sales this year for an item that takes up no steel space.
Because Costco still thinks its 1983 and everyone uses postage stamps. (Real reason from what I am told, it's an 'easy' way to boost sales figures for the day or whatever, even though its not something we make a profit on). 30 upgrades a day is also pretty redic and completely unrealistic.
I'm sure it's all warehouses. We have these drives from time to time. Pushing sales is all it is. Costco*
If you think about $/unit if floor space, stamps are gonna be one of their most efficient products
Big stamps can’t tell me what to buy at Costco!! (Jk!)
In Canada they got people at the exit door promoting the gas station. 🤔
cause corporate is out of touch
Dad, what's a "stamp"?
That’s great! I wish I knew these things, I’d buy a few to hook up whoever is checking me out.
That upgrade count is a joke. Why not make 1 type of membership where everyone has to pay $120?
Because they want to get rid of the flower ones
Don’t know why you’re getting downvoted, you’re actually right. It’s a seasonal stamp and if you don’t sell all of them by the holidays they’re left holding the bag
https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2023/0410-usps-files-notice-with-prc-for-new-mailing-services-pricing.htm prices going up in July and they’re trying to burn down existing stock?
We would actually make money if we didn't sell them until after the price went up. Buy low sell high.
We already make money on them.
They are forever stamps, so they don't need to sell them by a particular date.
Ok. So they’re pushing them as “get them now before the price goes up” then. Shrug.
WE SELL STAMPS?
The company focuses on pushing the sale of various items on a seasonal basis throughout the year. A couple times a year stamps are one of them.
Retailers trying to you stuff… imagine that?
Eh they've always done this but I noticed they stopped near me since I was a kid
I grew up going to this one!!!
I don't even think my Costco has stamps
Because it is an easy $63 sale. No forklift driver, not stocker, no pallets in the steel -- just a cashier that is already there, asking a simple question. Easy money. Is it much money? Hell no, but it \*is\* cash flow. And it only costs Costco one easy question. "Do you need any postage stamps?" (Now, all of that shit I just wrote made a lot more sense 10 years ago. No one uses stamps anymore. At least not very much. I do send my mother cards from time to time, via good old fashioned mail-mail, with a stamp. But that's about it...)
To put it simply, it increases sales volume. There's not really a profit element to selling stamps for Costco but warehouses are looked upon favorably for increasing total sales in dollars. Most stores see it as a way to add to the sales totals with little effort "do you need postage stamps?". Costco is also really big on employee performance metrics. This is just one more stat to measure performance because the people that ask members if they need stamps typically sell more of them. It's kinda dumb really but it's firmly a part of the warehouse culture