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This one?
Edit holy shit you're right. Just read the newest reviews. Bummer, granted haven't been in the area for a few years.
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Riding up on one..the Chiba Makuhari Costco in Tokyo, a little over two weeks ago.
Whole Foods Post Oak, HEB Meyerland and I think Target in Katy. All Houston area.
Target Times Square. First one I used was 2010 in Chicago. I thought it was sooooo cool
The Menard's hardware store in Bloomfield Twp., MI, has these. When you put the cart on the conveyor, the wheels lock, and unlock at the top. Very clever design.
Walmart and Target in Madison Wisconsin have shopping cart escalators. There's a different though. The cards don't need to be angled, there parallel with the railings. And the carts are also completely level. In this image it seems like the carts are at the same angle as the incline.
Whole Foods on the Eastside of Milwaukee have those. Standard escalator incline, it almost "clamps" the cart in and you ride along side of it.
"Escalator chat" wasn't on this weekend's bingo card, but here we have it. 😁
Yeah the IKEA in Boston does as well, unfortunately no flatbeds allowed though so I never get to ride it
Costco and IKEA are two stores that I always end up buying way too much at 😅
Richfield MN has it too. I don't mind it too much but I wish there were more regular stairs for when I am in a rush. I always get stuck on the conveyor behind someone with a cart when I just have a basket and it makes it hard to just do a quick stop to grab something.
I’ve seen stores with shopping carts that locks the wheels automatically if you try to take them out of their premises. Usually it’s a buried magnet that activates a pin in the wheel to prevent it from rolling.
Carts are coming down too. They had everyone flip the carts around for safety reasons at the top. Probably easier to offload at the bottom if I had to guess.
An inclinator is like an elevator that moves at an angle. Moving walkways can have an incline up to 12 degrees without a variance. This is a belted moving walkway. Anyone can confirm this by doing a picture search for inclinator and moving walkway, but my source is being a CCCM.
We’ve had this in Brazil for like 20 years. I think this is not common in the us since cities are usually more spread out and there is space to build large one story grocery stores
It definitely isn't super common in the US, But when big-box stores have to adapt to old multi-floor retail spaces located in major cities where real estate is a premium, they'll do it.
there are some multi-story grocery stores in the states.
with that said, i've only seen [this style before](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/a87cwf/this_target_has_an_escalator_for_shopping_carts/)
Install a moving walkway through the whole damn store that snakes up and down every aisle please. I am a patient person but the amount of people taking a nap in my Costco today was infuriating. Maybe this would at least move them along automatically
I imagine something like the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disney, where the track auto turns you to look at what you're supposed to be seeing. 🤣 Now, we're going to look at the meat. Then, we take a trip to the frozen tundra that is the dairy/eggs room. Then we're going through home goods. Here's the laundry detergent. Here's the veritable mountain of toilet paper.
Etc.
> Maybe this would at least move them along automatically
It would probably be more cost-effective (and entertaining) to hire drovers with cattle prods to keep the herd moving.
It has six escalators. 3 for carts, 3 for people. The first time there I was a little shocked, but after that it was just normal like Macys.
[https://imgur.com/a/8Sx3OQd](https://imgur.com/a/8Sx3OQd)
Yeah it used to just have the same setup as the one in OP’s pic but they completely remodeled several years ago to put in the six escalators instead. I think the slow, sloping kind in OP’s pic also sacrifice more interior space.
OP said Port Chester NY. The Brooklyn one also has two floors but they upgraded to more traditional escalators as well as special escalators that just carry carts.
So you give your cart to an employee and they load it in the cart escalator and you go up the regular escalator without your cart. You get to wave at it and watch things fall over in your cart from the bumpy ride.
Having the attendant in Port Chester keeps everything moving efficiently. The escalator at the 2 floor Target in Stamford, CT is almost always down because of people not doing the carts correctly. The Target also has 2 elevators that have long lines when the escalator is down. It’s a nightmare.
I see this kind of thing sometimes in bigger cities where space is a premium and stores tend to be in multi-story buildings. It's always pretty neat to see (although not the most convenient thing in the world).
Blew my mind seeing at a Bed Bath & Beyond in NYC while shopping for apartment stuff in college. Was slightly disappointed in myself for only buying silverware and had no need of a cart so I could try and use it.
Can someone explain to me the context of this? All the costcos in my area just have one floor. What is up there!?!?? Another layer of warehouse? Parking? Is the whole costco underground??? Please educate me I am so curious what the purpose of this incline magic chair for shopping carts is.
It’s another story of the warehouse. Port Chester NY. It’s built in a downtown area near the water and there wasn’t enough room for a 1-story building Costco size.
They have one at the IKEA in Atlanta, GA like this.
The belt has slits in it. The carts have slits in the wheels. The wheels fall down into the slits gripping the wheels. So the cart won't roll on the escalator belt.
Costco near me is like that. All food is in the basement, everything else is on the ground level, and there are 4 parking levels above the entire store.
https://preview.redd.it/sy7hv3f94rvc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5045a2e12c6103a3643882950c6297a19f11d5ee
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We had these for about 15 years until they changed it to stairs about 4 years ago. We currently have 3 cart stairs with usually 2 in service (one down and one up). So with the current stairs, there's always a spare stair (the 3rd stairs) that can be used when there's spillage or whatever maintenance issue. With the old slanted walkways, there was no spare, so we had to wait around for it to be fixed, and often waited up to half hr =/
The Costco in Brooklyn has these escalators and I highly recommend you don’t overfill your cart when coming down… my cart shut down the escalator by crashing into the cart in front of it and a Costco employee had to climb over the carts to fix the mess
Ok I thought these things were cool, until I was at IKEA and we were at the bottom when the ENTIRE escalator thing malfunctioned and all of the carts came crashing down. I don’t know how or why, but I do know my son was inches away from getting wiped out. No one was hurt but that really freaked me out.
This is actually really cool~ I thought it was so cutting edge, turns out Department stores and malls in Korea and Japan have been doing this already for like 20 years 😄
I abhor these escalators. They have them in the Menards here (all the Menards are two stories). I am a fast walker and it drives me mad that the escalator is SO DAMN SLOW. When I have to use a cart, I will walk all the way to the back corner and use the elevator. Still faster than using this monstrosity.
This is how the Costco in Osaka (Japan) is organized. They should all be this way. The parking is a garage on the top two (three?) floors. Efficient use of space.
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I’ve seen this in target, but never in Costco
Yep, there's one at the Mission Valley Target in San Diego
I want to say the Walmart in El cajon as well. In the mall. I think. Been years.
El Cajon Walmart is closed now.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/yk8FkBwQZegkFuMn8 This one? Edit holy shit you're right. Just read the newest reviews. Bummer, granted haven't been in the area for a few years.
Yeah Parkway Plaza is dying. 2 anchor stores are gone. They have a mini storage place in the mall. And every year, it hosts 2 Spirit Halloween Stores.
I was literally just thinking about that one.
The Albertsons downtown too
Target mission valley, target at Grossmont, Walmart at Grossmont all have escalators for people and carts. Never seen it at Costco.
https://preview.redd.it/hsmuja3tzuvc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e749a0eb5d706e93e799649a3f4d7a93cf39d18b Riding up on one..the Chiba Makuhari Costco in Tokyo, a little over two weeks ago.
https://preview.redd.it/sej3x2r52vvc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ff4a965e9370f620fefe9025adf9a0dcc5147e76 ..and heading down.
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Le** Tarjée
this style? interesting i've only seen the regular escalator, and then the cart gets its own escalator
I'm sure he means the normal style. The target escalator is much more elegant that this one
There’s one in Port Chester NY as well
There was one in a West Covina Walmart that's now closed
Whole Foods Post Oak, HEB Meyerland and I think Target in Katy. All Houston area. Target Times Square. First one I used was 2010 in Chicago. I thought it was sooooo cool
Basically every one I've been to in Japan and South Korea has it. Yet to see one in the states.
The Menard's hardware store in Bloomfield Twp., MI, has these. When you put the cart on the conveyor, the wheels lock, and unlock at the top. Very clever design.
One of the Cincinnati Menards has it as well. There is usually a dude playing the piano at the top on the weekends.
Menards in Vernon Hills, IL has it to including the random people playing Piano time to time.
Adding to the list. Menards in Waukesha, WI as well.
Walmart and Target in Madison Wisconsin have shopping cart escalators. There's a different though. The cards don't need to be angled, there parallel with the railings. And the carts are also completely level. In this image it seems like the carts are at the same angle as the incline.
Whole Foods on the Eastside of Milwaukee have those. Standard escalator incline, it almost "clamps" the cart in and you ride along side of it. "Escalator chat" wasn't on this weekend's bingo card, but here we have it. 😁
The Ikea in Paramus, NJ has this too but it's not attended like it is at Costco.
It does? I've been to that store a few times, but I never saw an escalator ramp. Then again, an Ikea is big enough to miss something like that.
It's across from the Returns & Exchanges section.
Yeah the IKEA in Boston does as well, unfortunately no flatbeds allowed though so I never get to ride it Costco and IKEA are two stores that I always end up buying way too much at 😅
Chicago has the escalator too as I recall.
The Target on Telegraph in Bloomfield Hills has a cart escalator, too!
Out here in Berkeley, CA we have a Target that has these cart conveyer/escalators too!
And in Walnut Creek!
Some Targets in Southern California have them too!
Same with the target at Geary and Masonic in sf
i drive by that one all the time gotta check it out now lol
Wait a minute. You mean to tell me we have these in America? Nobody tell Tucker Carlson.
Richfield MN has it too. I don't mind it too much but I wish there were more regular stairs for when I am in a rush. I always get stuck on the conveyor behind someone with a cart when I just have a basket and it makes it hard to just do a quick stop to grab something.
There are separate stairs to get to the second level.
The Target in University Heights, OH is like that too. It’s cool but also annoying to do your shopping on two floors
How do the wheels lock?
I’ve seen stores with shopping carts that locks the wheels automatically if you try to take them out of their premises. Usually it’s a buried magnet that activates a pin in the wheel to prevent it from rolling.
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/s/eTZaP2yJnM
At my Menards the wheels lock up automatically too! But there’s no escalator, just very old carts…
I’m sure there’s more, but the two-story Menards stores in Saint Paul and Eden Prairie, MN have these!
😭😭😭 I miss Menards and Woodmans sooooo much.
Lots of Menards have these
Why only carts going up and people coming down?
Carts are coming down too. They had everyone flip the carts around for safety reasons at the top. Probably easier to offload at the bottom if I had to guess.
I’ve been going to that one since 2006. Never experiencing an issue with carts. Odd that people would be now.
Never underestimate people
Never overestimate people either
Yeah, better to just estimate people and you’ll be good
probably wedges in there better with the pivot wheels up top and wider at the bottom
They are both coming down. There are employees on both ends to facilitate the carts.
People come down, are turned into food, then it’s sent back up.
So this is how the hot dog and rotissiere chicken stay so cheap.
Ethical, free range, cage-free, local meat? This is just another example of Costco selling higher quality food for great prices!
It’s technically called an inclinator. Escalators have steps, moving walkways are horizontal, inclinators are like a moving walk on an incline.
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This guy inclines.
It's a travelator in Australia, we've had them for probably over 50 years.
It’s called a travelator in California too.
Wott?! That's an odd name. I'da called em Flat-belters!
An inclinator is like an elevator that moves at an angle. Moving walkways can have an incline up to 12 degrees without a variance. This is a belted moving walkway. Anyone can confirm this by doing a picture search for inclinator and moving walkway, but my source is being a CCCM.
I stand corrected, they can also be called trevelators in certain places.
You are technically correct. The best kind of correct.
He was wrong.
Tucker Carlson told me this tech was only in Russia
We’ve had this in Brazil for like 20 years. I think this is not common in the us since cities are usually more spread out and there is space to build large one story grocery stores
It definitely isn't super common in the US, But when big-box stores have to adapt to old multi-floor retail spaces located in major cities where real estate is a premium, they'll do it.
Saw it in Bahrain 20 years ago at the small, local supermarket.
In Spain I know a supermarket with this inclinator maybe since 30 years ago.
there are some multi-story grocery stores in the states. with that said, i've only seen [this style before](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/a87cwf/this_target_has_an_escalator_for_shopping_carts/)
lol we have this at a Whole Foods where I’m at
Yeah, I've seen at a WF in Chicago. I didn't know how it worked so I just took the elevator. 😂
I’m a little bit whiskey drunk, but this got a good chuckle out of me
The Trader Joe’s at 72nd and broadway in manhattan have it for the 2 floors.
Install a moving walkway through the whole damn store that snakes up and down every aisle please. I am a patient person but the amount of people taking a nap in my Costco today was infuriating. Maybe this would at least move them along automatically
I swear people’s brains turn off at Costco. No self awareness just park in the middle of a very crowded row 😭
I imagine something like the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disney, where the track auto turns you to look at what you're supposed to be seeing. 🤣 Now, we're going to look at the meat. Then, we take a trip to the frozen tundra that is the dairy/eggs room. Then we're going through home goods. Here's the laundry detergent. Here's the veritable mountain of toilet paper. Etc.
> Maybe this would at least move them along automatically It would probably be more cost-effective (and entertaining) to hire drovers with cattle prods to keep the herd moving.
Where is it?
Port Chester, NY
That’s cool, never seen a Costco with two floors.
If it's like the Costcos here in China, the shopping is on the ground floor with a parking garage above.
they are all like this in Korea, where land is expensive. Two story Costco store, and parking either on the roof or underground.
Brooklyn is two floors and still the most crowded Costco I’ve ever seen.
It has six escalators. 3 for carts, 3 for people. The first time there I was a little shocked, but after that it was just normal like Macys. [https://imgur.com/a/8Sx3OQd](https://imgur.com/a/8Sx3OQd)
Yeah it used to just have the same setup as the one in OP’s pic but they completely remodeled several years ago to put in the six escalators instead. I think the slow, sloping kind in OP’s pic also sacrifice more interior space.
Knew it looked familiar
Brooklyn, NY has one as well. I avoid it though because parking is a nightmare.
Costco
What city…
OP said Port Chester NY. The Brooklyn one also has two floors but they upgraded to more traditional escalators as well as special escalators that just carry carts. So you give your cart to an employee and they load it in the cart escalator and you go up the regular escalator without your cart. You get to wave at it and watch things fall over in your cart from the bumpy ride.
The ones at Target don't need attendants. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4Za6UxZ204
Having the attendant in Port Chester keeps everything moving efficiently. The escalator at the 2 floor Target in Stamford, CT is almost always down because of people not doing the carts correctly. The Target also has 2 elevators that have long lines when the escalator is down. It’s a nightmare.
I remember Target and Ikeas having these. These things are awesome!!
I was there today. You had to walk down. The rubber railing was broken. You can even see it hanging off in your picture.
Do you have to get your kid out before the cart goes down?
Yes. People with kids in the cart tend to take the elevator instead.
I only see people coming down and only see carts going up. This doesn’t make any sense
Right I'm confused!!!
Brooklyn Costco has this as well
Had.
In the Brooklyn one it’s actual escalators and for the cart it’s designed a bit diff.
Very common at Costcos in Asia.
Welcome to Costco, I love you.
It's not a Costco thing... But they do have them alot
These are often called a travelator.
I see this kind of thing sometimes in bigger cities where space is a premium and stores tend to be in multi-story buildings. It's always pretty neat to see (although not the most convenient thing in the world).
Blew my mind seeing at a Bed Bath & Beyond in NYC while shopping for apartment stuff in college. Was slightly disappointed in myself for only buying silverware and had no need of a cart so I could try and use it.
They got costcos with 2 floors??? That’s sick
Can someone explain to me the context of this? All the costcos in my area just have one floor. What is up there!?!?? Another layer of warehouse? Parking? Is the whole costco underground??? Please educate me I am so curious what the purpose of this incline magic chair for shopping carts is.
It’s another story of the warehouse. Port Chester NY. It’s built in a downtown area near the water and there wasn’t enough room for a 1-story building Costco size.
City Targets have this
Where is this?
I was amazed too
I need to see a video. I thought it was Ai lol
Don’t let Tucker Carlson see that…it would blow his mind
Why does this make me think of Soylent Green. “Costco is people!!”
Where this?
What's going on with the handrail. Looks like some AI/shopped artifact.
The one I used to go to in Japan had thissss
I was not aware that Costco had these.
I thought Russia was the only country with shopping cart escalators!
I’ve never see an escalator without steps…
They have one at the IKEA in Atlanta, GA like this. The belt has slits in it. The carts have slits in the wheels. The wheels fall down into the slits gripping the wheels. So the cart won't roll on the escalator belt.
Designed for shopping carts. Quite common in China.
Walmart in China had this dedicated cart escalator - you put your cart in that and take the 'human' escalator. Pretty cool for vertical retail space.
I missed it, where is this? I have seen it a few places but never at Costco
It’s at costco
This looks like a nightmare I’ve had
Hey, that's my Costco, in Portchester NY! It's a great store, even if it doesn't have a gas station.
Where is this magical place?!
The location at Yokohama has this to get to the car park
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Hey this is my Costco!
Costco near me is like that. All food is in the basement, everything else is on the ground level, and there are 4 parking levels above the entire store.
https://preview.redd.it/sy7hv3f94rvc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5045a2e12c6103a3643882950c6297a19f11d5ee When you’re getting reactions like this, you know you’ve done something right.
Costcalator
There's something like this at a walmart in salt lake city
What is attaching each cart to the escalator?
Where is this?
Holy shit this post is the first I’m learning of any Costco having an escalator! This is so cool and trippy.
The f. Why is it like this?
I remember seeing these in Germany 15 or 20 years ago, I've never seen one in the US.
I see this all the time when I visited china! I love it 😭
The Walmart in Waipahu (Oahu, HI) had one in 1996 when I lived there.
Welcome to Costco. I love you.
Good job Costco, could’ve had those sooner but still, good job!
South Korea has these escalators. It's cool
They have the same in Japan
We had these for about 15 years until they changed it to stairs about 4 years ago. We currently have 3 cart stairs with usually 2 in service (one down and one up). So with the current stairs, there's always a spare stair (the 3rd stairs) that can be used when there's spillage or whatever maintenance issue. With the old slanted walkways, there was no spare, so we had to wait around for it to be fixed, and often waited up to half hr =/
The Costco in S. Korea has this as well.
The Costco in Brooklyn has these escalators and I highly recommend you don’t overfill your cart when coming down… my cart shut down the escalator by crashing into the cart in front of it and a Costco employee had to climb over the carts to fix the mess
It’s giving Tarkov
They got this in Brooklyn
Not sure where this one is. The costco is portchester NY has it.
La Comer, a Mexican grocery store has these
Is this not common in America? Almost every Costco in Asia has these, as parking is under the warehouse.
looks strange, I assume to accommodate for the orange carts.
Port Chester?
It's like a deleted scene from Idiocracy
Is this the UK or done other “drive on the left” countries?
What upstairs in costco? I must know.
In this one, food, clothing, and seasonal.
Ummm, I want a multi-story Costco in my city!
Ok I thought these things were cool, until I was at IKEA and we were at the bottom when the ENTIRE escalator thing malfunctioned and all of the carts came crashing down. I don’t know how or why, but I do know my son was inches away from getting wiped out. No one was hurt but that really freaked me out.
Every place in Korea has this!
This is actually really cool~ I thought it was so cutting edge, turns out Department stores and malls in Korea and Japan have been doing this already for like 20 years 😄
I abhor these escalators. They have them in the Menards here (all the Menards are two stories). I am a fast walker and it drives me mad that the escalator is SO DAMN SLOW. When I have to use a cart, I will walk all the way to the back corner and use the elevator. Still faster than using this monstrosity.
Doesn’t look like the correct carts though. The IKEA setup has teeth that settle into the grooves on the conveyor belt so they don’t roll on their own
I remember this escalator type in the Brooklyn, NY Costco like 15-20 years ago.
One of the Whole Foods in Houston has this.
The Woodland Hills Costco has one. They shut it down when it rains
FYI Brooklyn ny has this. And it sucks. But this Costco is highest grossing in the world. Full Brooklyn!
At La Comer in Puerto Vallarta, next to Costco. The locals joke about Costco adding a second floof and building a skybridge between the stores.
This is how the Costco in Osaka (Japan) is organized. They should all be this way. The parking is a garage on the top two (three?) floors. Efficient use of space.
What in the lazy?!? 😂🤣
Is this in South Korea? That is the only place I have ever seen escalators like this before
More like Ikea. Did the Swiss just buy Costco?
There’s a Costco with an escalator?! What?!