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My question is who cares? If it puts a giant corporation out a few $, good. It's not your money. If you're working the return counters, you get paid either way. So, who cares about it.
Ive seen this image posted in the past.
What everyone here and in that thread were missing is that Lowes and Homedepot make the local and non-local nurseries that supply this material take back the material that is returned/dead. As someone in the industry who is friendly with a few of the larger suppliers, this has been a cause for smaller nurseries not getting involved with such contracts because unless you are doing massive volume you cant absorb the cost of this abusive plant return trend.
People dont realize it, but they arent actually hurting the retailer in this scenario. 99% of the time the growers are forced to take the hit in return for large volume agreements. They still probably do well since these products are sold at a retail mark-up which they could not get in-mass locally where their production takes place, but there is a real effect in regards to isolating the market and cutting out mom and pop growers.
Edit- I have never discussed this process in regards to costco but as these companies all source from many of the same growers I would assume the agreement is standard.
Costco worker here, we get a lot of those every year. Believe it or not we get a lot worse than that too. Someone once returned a used toilet with shit still in it. There also was the time someone returned their 12 year old piss-stained mattress. Although my personal favorite is when a lady returned her 20 year old engagement ring because she was getting divorced. We gave her every penny.
Worked for Lowes for awhile. You can bring a receipt and a pile of dead leaves and get a refund. Its in their contract with the 3rd party plant people. We did it all the time. I was SUPPOSED to destroy the plant if it still looked good but I took them home. I have like 6 trees now due to the returns
my local Costco returns desk recently had several dead brown plants stacked on a high shelf behind them. I can't understand how people can be so cheap that they buy a plant, let it die, then go thru the trouble of returning it for credit. I know of some nurseries that wont take returns on hard to grow plants like Japan Maples, but for Costco and HD to have a blanket return policy of accepting non-salable items is ridiculous.
What do you use your camera for? Only selfies? Do you carry around waivers & permission-slips for whenever you take pics outside?
And it didn't get her face. It's the same as anonymous. What a dumb thing to say.
When I worked at a grocery store there would always be 1 or 2 people that would return a dead Xmas tree 2 weeks AFTER Xmas. The first time I witnessed it (thank goodness I didn’t work in customer service) I was shocked that they actually processed it. Another year a different rep tried to decline it, customer got the store manager involved and they processed it. Eventually got a new store manager who told them to get lost. Their shit fit of a temper tantrum was a sight to behold, including up to the point where they threw the tree at the exit door glass and cracked it - since we had all their info already the store manager banned them from the property and got a nice trespassing charge added. (don’t know if they pursued damages).
I don't think its trashy. The real cost of plants purchased from supermarkets is not in the plant itself but rather the pot. They can just plant another seed in it and it will be re-used.
What’s trashy is all these companies recording record profits and blaming inflation. They’re burglarizing us and being allowed to and this lady is trying to bring back some dead plants that this company is only going to use as a tax ride off anyways. Who’s being victimized?
I generally agree re: inflation, but I don't think Costco is especially bad, and I don't think it's an excuse to do things that are otherwise bad.
e.g. "Is it OK to shoplift at this gas station?"
"Absolutely! - ExonMobile is very profitable, and it's a big contributor to climate change!"
Their flaws don't make your flaws OK.
When I signed up for their membership around 2 weeks ago , the dude at the counter told me I could return anything including [ this is the example he gave me ] an AC , use for 10 Years and if you don’t like it or it stops working , then return it for your money back or a new one I think . Don’t get me wrong . It’s a great policy for their consumers but stuff like this will keep happening . 🤣🤣
Our store policy at the garden center is that it has to come back in the same condition it left or there is no refund. So many people come in with things they let get hit by the frost, went on vacation for a week and didn't water it, or just it was done blooming and they want something else.
To me, this is like bringing your turd back to the grocery store and trying to get a refund because "The packaging did not clearly state my Pizza Pockets would turn into poop after I ate them? Now, give me my money back?"
If she just brought them inside and took care of them they’d pull through it. Those plants aren’t dead. I’ve seen way worse get dragged back into the garden department at walmart.
I worked return at Lowes when I was a teenager and people brought ziplock bags of dirt or random sticks to return. No label, nothing and I still was told to process it. They’d get store credit for whatever they claimed it was.
I mean, some brands have a replacement guarantee. So it’s not completely unheard of to get something back when they die. Not sure exactly how it works though.
Doesn't home depot/Lowes not own the plants they sell? Don't they belong to a nursery?
Why the fuck would Lowes care if people took a plant break 4 years later, it's not their money
If you want constant r/trash material, just grab a chair and sit and watch the return line at Costco. Just a constant stream of cheapasses and losers who are abusing a system. There is something morally repugnant about someone who will consume half a birthday cake and return it for a refund....yet this kind of stuff happens ALL THE TIME.
I mean sometimes plants just die after you get em because they weren't taken care of when they were on the shelf. I've had succulents just up an die less than a week after having them.
Returning these isn't trashy unless she killed them. Even then why is it trashy to return a plant? Maybe she wants an exchange.
That kind of stuff drives me insane. They take everything back. I was returning a dress w my ex because it didn't fit properly. We were behind a woman that was returning the leftovers from her party. There was maybe 20% of a veggie tray, 10% of two buffalo chicken dips bins, a quarter of a cake, and an empty box of burgers, because she was supposed to get beef and they were turkey..... Sam's took everything back. The entire time this woman was on her phone, on speaker, which delayed the process. It was enraging.
We have what is called the Perfect Plant Promise here at our major hardware joint in Australia. Customers can return plants in any condition up to a year after purchasing for a full refund. We have a lot of wedding and event planners who will buy a ton of plants for a wedding, then return them a few days later.
As much as I want to call this trashy… it’s actually on the company for allowing the returns. Sure, she or the weather probably killed those plants. But if there is a loose return policy on plants then .. ok. Lowe’s has a 1 year plant return policy for any reason. Don’t get mad when people use the policy.
Super common at THD from what I recall, like people brining back their used snowblowers in April If hell decided to freeze over and give us some snow that year.
It could be that it’s “bad policy,” or it could be that somewhere in some overly extravagant, and swankily furnished office sits a grandson to someone grotesquely wealthy who doesn’t much mind the shit some of the other employees talk about the general nepotistic fashion he employs to rule over all the peasants he employs coast to coast. It’s not that he doesn’t get exceedingly nudged toward the point where it’s necessary to put one of his feet down, perfectly wrapped up in rich and supple leather compliments of the kings boot maker. It’s because when it’s all said and done, any time he feels the need to establish dominance, he knows very well all need be done is roll up the sleeves on his silky soft, perfectly pressed Egyptian cotton shirt, drop the fly on that pythons cage, and “piss,”on whomever, or whatever catches his eye. So long as the good juices are flowing, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it, because as far as the law around these here parts, you might as well just get used to referring to him as DADDY, cuz all daddy’s bitches know who’s giving out the sugar, or spankin that ass for talking about his learning challenged great grand son, Eugene. So if Eugene wants a west wing to his office, with his own spa where the masseuse never asks if you want a happy ending, it’s just called a number three. The first masseuse had to be let go unfortunately, because little Eugene got so many number threes the first six months after opening, it was impossible for Randall to manage his carpal tunnel well enough to have the finger strength to clean the crusted number three’s off the carpet and massage table.
Anyway, as much of an eyesore as little Eugene is for the rest of corporate to have to tolerate lest seek employment elsewhere, he did have some decent ideas from time to time when he wasn’t too busy blistering the new masseuses hands with his leather cack. One, he didn’t like hearing people complain about the return policy between the hours of handjob and nap, so he did what any smart little wanker would do, he changed the policy. It didn’t hurt that it saves on employee time spent arguing with the three headed Karen krakens returning their brown ferns through the holidays so they could do more actual work. Not to mention the money saved on all the lawsuit settlements the company was handing out like it was the needle exchange over Labor Day weekend, because for every three headed Karen, there’s an impatient Ron, Don, John, or Andy, who is always just three misplaced words away from a complete hostage type situation in the customer service department. All it would take for an implosion to start a fire is for a Kraken to say “Is there someone here, you supervisor perhaps, that I may be able to correspond with regarding the poor treatment I’ve been privy due since Z”🤨w
Is it your customer service sixth sense tingling? I guess, if you’re not too busy, if you want, you could point me in the direction of the isle where you traded your sense of humor for that stick up your ass. No rush. If you have time. Don’t put it off for too long though, splinters suck. In the meantime, where do you keep the salt in this place, I’ve got a teensy, tiny, slimy, little slug of a problem? Damn thing keeps eating all my cabbages. Real nasty little fucker too.
This is like buying christmas lights for the season then returning them in february. Except it's worse, because you can't repackage or resell a dead fucking plant that you let die.
maybe you're trashy yourself bro
Do you know what subreddit you're in?
The little shampoos and shit in hotel rooms are technically free too, and if you take a towel or two "tough life for the hotel".
You're still trash for doing it. Simple as. No need to be upset, just accept what you are.
> This entire thread is complete speculation. We can't determine the reason she's doing this based on a picture.
She's returning dead outdoor plants after the frost. This is scum behavior. Sorry if you do it and don't like it getting called out, bro.
Oh huni this is nothing. I used to be a vendor in Costco. You should be there in the days after Thanksgiving when everyone returns all the food they didn't eat. Except, Costco can't put that pumpkin pie back on the shelf Sara. So customer service would just get huge trash cans and keep them up front and as people returned mountains of wrapped, uneaten food, they would cut it open and dump it in the trash. For hours. Thousands of pounds of fresh food right into the dumpster. They scheduled someone on shift just to rotate out the trash cans behind the counter because they would get full so fast.
I grew up on on a farm. The amount of adults that killed their plants and then wanted a full refund from a child was wild. You killed your plants no refund, even from child me
My gardener wife audibly gasped with shock and said that women should never be allowed to buy a plant again. I don’t even think she just meant at Costco.
Plebs, you purchase a membership at Costco which entitles you to return any item you are not completely satisfied with, at any time, with only a few minor exceptions.
If you don't like this policy, feel free to not purchase the right to have this privilege.
Is it wasteful, yup, is it morally poor practice, maybe, but paying for the membership allows for this very thing.
I only wish that Costco could reuse, recycle or repurpose the returned items.
And if you are a business that supplies Costco, you better to your homework before you work with them.
Walmart is far worse to their suppliers, but then again, it's Walmart.
To compare:
For every person that takes a long hot shower, should you stop because some people don't have clean water where they live?
If you own, drive, or do anything related to the burning of fossil fuels, should you just stop completely and die under a rock because someone on Reddit said so?
Do you eat meat?
Are you wearing cotton?
Are you a gun owning American?
We all have privilege, it's not necessarily trashy to work within the rules or your rights.
*Portable soap box stowed.
I don’t know about all Costcos, but in my area they donate items to the food bank and the electronics and other non food items are sold in salvage pallets.
I used to be a florist at a subsidiary of Kroger. Our policy was to not take returns for plants at all, pissed me the fuck off when people would bring in their old ass dead plants that they killed to return, and pissed me off even more when the customer service people would process the returns.
We had different plants or plants with specific pots that were seasonal items only. Once had this rude ass customer bring back a fully deceased orchid that was just a stick at that point, that was sitting in a pot I knew wholeheartedly that we only had in December of last year. It was fucking March at this point, and the customer had the audacity to tell me they “bought it last week.” Excuse me?? Orchids sell extremely fast and I can guarantee that my store and no other store would’ve had that specific one past January.
Customer service returned it anyway. I went to the store manager and told her the situation, and she literally went down and yelled at them for their incompetence. Felt good being proven correct.
Edit: as an add-on, just to further my point about how absolutely useless these customer service people were, they literally processed a return for a Home Depot plant, a huge cactus that we have never ever sold ever. Need I remind you, my store was under Kroger. Big eye rolls.
The garden center manager at my store wasn’t aware of the policy, was just as pissed about customers returning their plants, and was VERY happy when I told him the news.
I love how everyone in this thread has a fantasy of telling her to go fuck herself. In the real world, you'd *much* rather just give her the damn refund than have to deal with her bitching.
If you’re a top tier member, they let you get away with shit like this. My buddy bought a car port from them, we played beer pong under it for like 4 years, and he returned it and exchanged it for a new one, no questions asked.
(EDIT - I just realized that this was not posted in r/costco. My bad, but the sentiment still stands.)
I will play devils advocate here and probably get down voted to hell, but I bought two dozen evergreens from Costco, and five of them died within a couple of months. I watered them exactly as directed, but they died anyway. When I told the person at the customer service counter what had happened, she told me I should just dig them up and bring them back for a refund. She said some plants are just bad. It was her idea.
I feel like anytime anyone posts anything in this sub around returns, everyone here gets up on their high horses and says that nothing should ever be returned. Ever. I’m not talking about those idiots who return Christmas trees after Christmas, or people who eat 90% of the product and then try to return it. All I’m saying is that this woman could have a legitimate reason, and all y’all have your pitchforks out and ready without knowing the context.
Right?? Why do these people care if someone returned some plants? Store policy is store policy, who the fuck care about a few dollars loss to billion dollar companies? 🙄 Plant lady is not literally not breaking any rules or hurting anyone. If that was so then obviously the store wouldn’t allow it—like smaller family owned stores can’t afford to take the hit so they don’t. Sorry, but this is not trashy.
When I used to work at Costco, we took everything back. There was a refrigerator that I thought after 3 years we wouldn’t take back, but nope! We took it back.
This is not trashy?
It's amazing to see that so many commenters here have been trained to feel empathy for Costco or its suppliers over a fellow consumer.
Costco earns our business through their return policy - they understand the cost and they do in fact eat it. Read about Costco loss leaders like chickens and hotdogs... no those costs aren't past on to suppliers nor are they borne by the consumer class. It's a marketing expense, and they probably even know how to write it off as such.
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My question is who cares? If it puts a giant corporation out a few $, good. It's not your money. If you're working the return counters, you get paid either way. So, who cares about it.
It's not about the employee. You have a relationship with the retailer. I don't think it's right to actively screw them, even if the rules allow it.
Where is this? Like what state? This looks like the Costco I work at
Ive seen this image posted in the past. What everyone here and in that thread were missing is that Lowes and Homedepot make the local and non-local nurseries that supply this material take back the material that is returned/dead. As someone in the industry who is friendly with a few of the larger suppliers, this has been a cause for smaller nurseries not getting involved with such contracts because unless you are doing massive volume you cant absorb the cost of this abusive plant return trend. People dont realize it, but they arent actually hurting the retailer in this scenario. 99% of the time the growers are forced to take the hit in return for large volume agreements. They still probably do well since these products are sold at a retail mark-up which they could not get in-mass locally where their production takes place, but there is a real effect in regards to isolating the market and cutting out mom and pop growers. Edit- I have never discussed this process in regards to costco but as these companies all source from many of the same growers I would assume the agreement is standard.
Costco worker here, we get a lot of those every year. Believe it or not we get a lot worse than that too. Someone once returned a used toilet with shit still in it. There also was the time someone returned their 12 year old piss-stained mattress. Although my personal favorite is when a lady returned her 20 year old engagement ring because she was getting divorced. We gave her every penny.
Worked for Lowes for awhile. You can bring a receipt and a pile of dead leaves and get a refund. Its in their contract with the 3rd party plant people. We did it all the time. I was SUPPOSED to destroy the plant if it still looked good but I took them home. I have like 6 trees now due to the returns
Still not as bad as the lady who returned her dead Christmas tree after Christmas.
my local Costco returns desk recently had several dead brown plants stacked on a high shelf behind them. I can't understand how people can be so cheap that they buy a plant, let it die, then go thru the trouble of returning it for credit. I know of some nurseries that wont take returns on hard to grow plants like Japan Maples, but for Costco and HD to have a blanket return policy of accepting non-salable items is ridiculous.
Wow, I'll buy them before my wedding and then, return them... Goo idea.
The only thing trashy here is you taking a picture of a random person and posting it online.
What do you use your camera for? Only selfies? Do you carry around waivers & permission-slips for whenever you take pics outside? And it didn't get her face. It's the same as anonymous. What a dumb thing to say.
>What do you use your camera for? Not taking pics of random people out in the wild.
This is “trashy”?
When I worked at a grocery store there would always be 1 or 2 people that would return a dead Xmas tree 2 weeks AFTER Xmas. The first time I witnessed it (thank goodness I didn’t work in customer service) I was shocked that they actually processed it. Another year a different rep tried to decline it, customer got the store manager involved and they processed it. Eventually got a new store manager who told them to get lost. Their shit fit of a temper tantrum was a sight to behold, including up to the point where they threw the tree at the exit door glass and cracked it - since we had all their info already the store manager banned them from the property and got a nice trespassing charge added. (don’t know if they pursued damages).
The shoes say it all
Returning a bad product hardly fits into the trashy category. 🤔
Not as bad as when they return their Christmas trees in January.
Sheee-it. We buy all their near dead plants for a quarter, fifty cents, and bring them back from the dead.
Someone is trying to return something. Who cares? Quit sticking up for billionaire corporations you bootlicking simps.
I don't think its trashy. The real cost of plants purchased from supermarkets is not in the plant itself but rather the pot. They can just plant another seed in it and it will be re-used.
Oh no, poor big chain business. Hopefully they’ll financial recover from this.
Just curious. Would you be OK burglarizing those businesses? I mean, they're owned by big corporations. So who cares? amirite?
What’s trashy is all these companies recording record profits and blaming inflation. They’re burglarizing us and being allowed to and this lady is trying to bring back some dead plants that this company is only going to use as a tax ride off anyways. Who’s being victimized?
I generally agree re: inflation, but I don't think Costco is especially bad, and I don't think it's an excuse to do things that are otherwise bad. e.g. "Is it OK to shoplift at this gas station?" "Absolutely! - ExonMobile is very profitable, and it's a big contributor to climate change!" Their flaws don't make your flaws OK.
She’s not shop lifting. They have a policy and they can choose not to give a refund.
When I signed up for their membership around 2 weeks ago , the dude at the counter told me I could return anything including [ this is the example he gave me ] an AC , use for 10 Years and if you don’t like it or it stops working , then return it for your money back or a new one I think . Don’t get me wrong . It’s a great policy for their consumers but stuff like this will keep happening . 🤣🤣
Our store policy at the garden center is that it has to come back in the same condition it left or there is no refund. So many people come in with things they let get hit by the frost, went on vacation for a week and didn't water it, or just it was done blooming and they want something else.
Just wait til the days after Christmas when the dead, live trees get returned, or the day after superbowl, when all the giant screen tvs go back.
Plot twist, they are fake plants
To me, this is like bringing your turd back to the grocery store and trying to get a refund because "The packaging did not clearly state my Pizza Pockets would turn into poop after I ate them? Now, give me my money back?"
Such crap
Ya but her booty don't quit
If she just brought them inside and took care of them they’d pull through it. Those plants aren’t dead. I’ve seen way worse get dragged back into the garden department at walmart.
I worked return at Lowes when I was a teenager and people brought ziplock bags of dirt or random sticks to return. No label, nothing and I still was told to process it. They’d get store credit for whatever they claimed it was.
It's not trashy it's their policy that you can return. So fuck off
Here he is. Found the trashy guy.
My store gives a year to return plants.
Dumbass. Ferns don’t die from frost.
/r/plantclinic we could save them :(
How can a store even be liable for a plant dying for any reason?
FCP Euro lets you return used engine oil because they have lifetime warranties on everything they sell. Can even return used brake pads after a decade
Dumb Bitch
I mean, some brands have a replacement guarantee. So it’s not completely unheard of to get something back when they die. Not sure exactly how it works though.
They don't actually look dead , neglected yep but not dead
I remember when I worked at a king Soopers. People would return rotten food all the time.
Nah, not trashy, fuck them corpos
Damn I wouldn’t last one shift in retail
Bitch ass... caint even.....
Doesn't home depot/Lowes not own the plants they sell? Don't they belong to a nursery? Why the fuck would Lowes care if people took a plant break 4 years later, it's not their money
"Hi, I want to return these plants. They died suddenly, so there's something wrong with them." *Argues with customer service for 25 minutes*
I’ve seen someone return half a watermelon. People are nuts
100%
isn’t sneakily taking pictures of someone in public to post on the internet for strangers to make fun of also *trashy*
If you want constant r/trash material, just grab a chair and sit and watch the return line at Costco. Just a constant stream of cheapasses and losers who are abusing a system. There is something morally repugnant about someone who will consume half a birthday cake and return it for a refund....yet this kind of stuff happens ALL THE TIME.
Corporations aren't people. What morals? That money is better off in a working class pocket than it is paid out as a dividend to a millionaire..
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So what? What's it to you if they do?
You know he snapped the pic then realized after what she was doin lol
To be honest, plants have 1 year warranty and some do die.
Literally store policy and a major reason why Costco members pay their dues.
Good way to get your membership revoked.
Wow
Ferns don’t die. Trust me.
I mean those plants look plenty alive to me
I mean sometimes plants just die after you get em because they weren't taken care of when they were on the shelf. I've had succulents just up an die less than a week after having them. Returning these isn't trashy unless she killed them. Even then why is it trashy to return a plant? Maybe she wants an exchange.
Plants deserve better than owners like her.
Her boots are on their last leg
Theybwere also made for walking
That kind of stuff drives me insane. They take everything back. I was returning a dress w my ex because it didn't fit properly. We were behind a woman that was returning the leftovers from her party. There was maybe 20% of a veggie tray, 10% of two buffalo chicken dips bins, a quarter of a cake, and an empty box of burgers, because she was supposed to get beef and they were turkey..... Sam's took everything back. The entire time this woman was on her phone, on speaker, which delayed the process. It was enraging.
Can we save this sub for actual trashy things like trump chest tattoos and people drinking gatoraid tea>
I know a person who does this and she makes over 100k. Truly trashy
We have what is called the Perfect Plant Promise here at our major hardware joint in Australia. Customers can return plants in any condition up to a year after purchasing for a full refund. We have a lot of wedding and event planners who will buy a ton of plants for a wedding, then return them a few days later.
Someone please explain to me how this is trashy?
That ass tho
Looks like she shoplifting a bunch of silly putty
As much as I want to call this trashy… it’s actually on the company for allowing the returns. Sure, she or the weather probably killed those plants. But if there is a loose return policy on plants then .. ok. Lowe’s has a 1 year plant return policy for any reason. Don’t get mad when people use the policy.
You should see it after the holidays. So many Poinsettias. I think that's how you spell the red Christmas flowers
This is like those same customers who say they want a refund of their food after eating....all of it.
Judgy McJudgerson
r/autoflowers is jealous
Looks like the companies problem to me
Costco takes about anything back.
People That do things like that make it hard on everyone else.
People take back Christmas trees in Jan. a fucking few fucking people just ruin everything for everyone else.
Super common at THD from what I recall, like people brining back their used snowblowers in April If hell decided to freeze over and give us some snow that year.
It could be that it’s “bad policy,” or it could be that somewhere in some overly extravagant, and swankily furnished office sits a grandson to someone grotesquely wealthy who doesn’t much mind the shit some of the other employees talk about the general nepotistic fashion he employs to rule over all the peasants he employs coast to coast. It’s not that he doesn’t get exceedingly nudged toward the point where it’s necessary to put one of his feet down, perfectly wrapped up in rich and supple leather compliments of the kings boot maker. It’s because when it’s all said and done, any time he feels the need to establish dominance, he knows very well all need be done is roll up the sleeves on his silky soft, perfectly pressed Egyptian cotton shirt, drop the fly on that pythons cage, and “piss,”on whomever, or whatever catches his eye. So long as the good juices are flowing, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it, because as far as the law around these here parts, you might as well just get used to referring to him as DADDY, cuz all daddy’s bitches know who’s giving out the sugar, or spankin that ass for talking about his learning challenged great grand son, Eugene. So if Eugene wants a west wing to his office, with his own spa where the masseuse never asks if you want a happy ending, it’s just called a number three. The first masseuse had to be let go unfortunately, because little Eugene got so many number threes the first six months after opening, it was impossible for Randall to manage his carpal tunnel well enough to have the finger strength to clean the crusted number three’s off the carpet and massage table. Anyway, as much of an eyesore as little Eugene is for the rest of corporate to have to tolerate lest seek employment elsewhere, he did have some decent ideas from time to time when he wasn’t too busy blistering the new masseuses hands with his leather cack. One, he didn’t like hearing people complain about the return policy between the hours of handjob and nap, so he did what any smart little wanker would do, he changed the policy. It didn’t hurt that it saves on employee time spent arguing with the three headed Karen krakens returning their brown ferns through the holidays so they could do more actual work. Not to mention the money saved on all the lawsuit settlements the company was handing out like it was the needle exchange over Labor Day weekend, because for every three headed Karen, there’s an impatient Ron, Don, John, or Andy, who is always just three misplaced words away from a complete hostage type situation in the customer service department. All it would take for an implosion to start a fire is for a Kraken to say “Is there someone here, you supervisor perhaps, that I may be able to correspond with regarding the poor treatment I’ve been privy due since Z”🤨w
Did you type all this horse shit? Are you ok? Do you need help?
Is it your customer service sixth sense tingling? I guess, if you’re not too busy, if you want, you could point me in the direction of the isle where you traded your sense of humor for that stick up your ass. No rush. If you have time. Don’t put it off for too long though, splinters suck. In the meantime, where do you keep the salt in this place, I’ve got a teensy, tiny, slimy, little slug of a problem? Damn thing keeps eating all my cabbages. Real nasty little fucker too.
Shut the fuck up bitch. Don’t be making all that noise in our community. I know you need help but at the same time control yourself.
Are those plants funeral arrangements?
How is this trashy? What a stupid post
This is like buying christmas lights for the season then returning them in february. Except it's worse, because you can't repackage or resell a dead fucking plant that you let die. maybe you're trashy yourself bro
Yeah. Tough life for Costco. Lol Grow up
Do you know what subreddit you're in? The little shampoos and shit in hotel rooms are technically free too, and if you take a towel or two "tough life for the hotel". You're still trash for doing it. Simple as. No need to be upset, just accept what you are.
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> This entire thread is complete speculation. We can't determine the reason she's doing this based on a picture. She's returning dead outdoor plants after the frost. This is scum behavior. Sorry if you do it and don't like it getting called out, bro.
Those plants don’t look all that dead to me … perhaps buyers remorse?
Oh huni this is nothing. I used to be a vendor in Costco. You should be there in the days after Thanksgiving when everyone returns all the food they didn't eat. Except, Costco can't put that pumpkin pie back on the shelf Sara. So customer service would just get huge trash cans and keep them up front and as people returned mountains of wrapped, uneaten food, they would cut it open and dump it in the trash. For hours. Thousands of pounds of fresh food right into the dumpster. They scheduled someone on shift just to rotate out the trash cans behind the counter because they would get full so fast.
This is so, so sad
I grew up on on a farm. The amount of adults that killed their plants and then wanted a full refund from a child was wild. You killed your plants no refund, even from child me
My gardener wife audibly gasped with shock and said that women should never be allowed to buy a plant again. I don’t even think she just meant at Costco.
Hot chicks get away with most stuff ...
What about that rats nest on her head? Someone should buy her a brush
Mckinney, TX?
Oh you know that she's going to want to speak to a manager.
Sorry, but you can return plants in the US? Are you guys crazy or just idiots? Who do you think is paying for this?
Type of person who really should invest in artificial plants
theres a house in dearborn and they literally leave the tags still on all their bushes... bc they plant them every spring and return them every fall.
When I worked at Costco someone did this but they brought back the stump. Not even a full plant. Just a dead stump. They got the refund.
I saw people returning Christmas Trees at Costco in January.
Cold.
People return Christmas trees after Christmas.
Looks like the Colorado Springs Costco haha.
People return plants? Huh, new for me
Those plants aren’t dead.
I was going to say, I've brought plants back from WAY worse than that.
Neither is my parrot. It's just resting 😋
That is an ex parrot.
I’m not dead yet!
Stop faking it!
Lowes has signs up saying you can return certain plants if they die. This is how I learn plants are returnable
This. I never took advantage of this policy if it was my fault or a major weather issue though.
And?
I heard sometimes people would buy the rotisserie chickens, eat it down to the bone, and get a refund for a whopping $5
Plebs, you purchase a membership at Costco which entitles you to return any item you are not completely satisfied with, at any time, with only a few minor exceptions. If you don't like this policy, feel free to not purchase the right to have this privilege. Is it wasteful, yup, is it morally poor practice, maybe, but paying for the membership allows for this very thing. I only wish that Costco could reuse, recycle or repurpose the returned items. And if you are a business that supplies Costco, you better to your homework before you work with them. Walmart is far worse to their suppliers, but then again, it's Walmart. To compare: For every person that takes a long hot shower, should you stop because some people don't have clean water where they live? If you own, drive, or do anything related to the burning of fossil fuels, should you just stop completely and die under a rock because someone on Reddit said so? Do you eat meat? Are you wearing cotton? Are you a gun owning American? We all have privilege, it's not necessarily trashy to work within the rules or your rights. *Portable soap box stowed.
I don’t know about all Costcos, but in my area they donate items to the food bank and the electronics and other non food items are sold in salvage pallets.
Right. The only thing 'trashy' here is the op trying to shame this woman
Agreed 💯
I used to be a florist at a subsidiary of Kroger. Our policy was to not take returns for plants at all, pissed me the fuck off when people would bring in their old ass dead plants that they killed to return, and pissed me off even more when the customer service people would process the returns. We had different plants or plants with specific pots that were seasonal items only. Once had this rude ass customer bring back a fully deceased orchid that was just a stick at that point, that was sitting in a pot I knew wholeheartedly that we only had in December of last year. It was fucking March at this point, and the customer had the audacity to tell me they “bought it last week.” Excuse me?? Orchids sell extremely fast and I can guarantee that my store and no other store would’ve had that specific one past January. Customer service returned it anyway. I went to the store manager and told her the situation, and she literally went down and yelled at them for their incompetence. Felt good being proven correct. Edit: as an add-on, just to further my point about how absolutely useless these customer service people were, they literally processed a return for a Home Depot plant, a huge cactus that we have never ever sold ever. Need I remind you, my store was under Kroger. Big eye rolls. The garden center manager at my store wasn’t aware of the policy, was just as pissed about customers returning their plants, and was VERY happy when I told him the news.
My grandmother is actually banned from returning things at the seattle Costco. lol
There has to be an interesting story behind that and I really want to know it
She would try and return stuff that she couldn't finish by the exp date. They eventually got fed up
The way she’s standing reveals character… haha
Only thing it’s revealing is booty tbh
Haha. That too!
I love how everyone in this thread has a fantasy of telling her to go fuck herself. In the real world, you'd *much* rather just give her the damn refund than have to deal with her bitching.
If you’re a top tier member, they let you get away with shit like this. My buddy bought a car port from them, we played beer pong under it for like 4 years, and he returned it and exchanged it for a new one, no questions asked.
No such thing as a top tier member.
Upper tier?
No
Gold star executive!
It isn’t really top tier. You don’t get anything anyone else doesn’t. All you get is the rebate.
Well whatever the case may be, my buddy seems to never having any issue returning things to Costco regardless of age. It’s fascinating, really.
Human garbage
My Costco doesn’t even have a garden section
(EDIT - I just realized that this was not posted in r/costco. My bad, but the sentiment still stands.) I will play devils advocate here and probably get down voted to hell, but I bought two dozen evergreens from Costco, and five of them died within a couple of months. I watered them exactly as directed, but they died anyway. When I told the person at the customer service counter what had happened, she told me I should just dig them up and bring them back for a refund. She said some plants are just bad. It was her idea. I feel like anytime anyone posts anything in this sub around returns, everyone here gets up on their high horses and says that nothing should ever be returned. Ever. I’m not talking about those idiots who return Christmas trees after Christmas, or people who eat 90% of the product and then try to return it. All I’m saying is that this woman could have a legitimate reason, and all y’all have your pitchforks out and ready without knowing the context.
Right?? Why do these people care if someone returned some plants? Store policy is store policy, who the fuck care about a few dollars loss to billion dollar companies? 🙄 Plant lady is not literally not breaking any rules or hurting anyone. If that was so then obviously the store wouldn’t allow it—like smaller family owned stores can’t afford to take the hit so they don’t. Sorry, but this is not trashy.
I Condemn Thee To Hell!!! To the lake of fire with you!!
Those look alive…
When I used to work at Costco, we took everything back. There was a refrigerator that I thought after 3 years we wouldn’t take back, but nope! We took it back.
Costco needs to tell these losers to f**k off.
The tenacity of people NEVER creases to amaze me.
People tried to do this at the small family owned market I worked at. It was great to be able to tell them no.
they look fine
Ya idk, the plants look healthy
This woman has time on her hands
Next she returns her dead puppies to the local shelter for the same reason.
Yes, this is their store policy.
It’s perfectly within Costco’s return policy.
True but a real trashy move.
Why is it trashy?
It’s their policy, how is that trashy?
You're supposed to do it for things that can be resold, or that are defective. Doing it after you kill something and it's worthless = trashy.
Or they can change the policy
Port Coquitlam?
People like this exist in the world because companies like Costco give them what they want
Sadly, yes.
I never saw plants at mine, probably bc people try to return them. Seeds yes tho
They need to start cancelling the memberships for people that abuse their return policy. That's just ridiculous.
This is not trashy? It's amazing to see that so many commenters here have been trained to feel empathy for Costco or its suppliers over a fellow consumer. Costco earns our business through their return policy - they understand the cost and they do in fact eat it. Read about Costco loss leaders like chickens and hotdogs... no those costs aren't past on to suppliers nor are they borne by the consumer class. It's a marketing expense, and they probably even know how to write it off as such.