Correct - and FrankR made the same point.
The "Youths" don't go to Costco.
They swarm the malls.
There was a mall someplace that tried to stop regional buses from accessing it - and a local councilwoman claimed it was "racist" to try and stop the buses. So they allowed the buses to come to the mall, and the place went to hell.
They were trying that at the Galleria in Hoover (Birmingham) AL. Someone bemoaned that busses didn’t run from Bessemer to the Galleria and so the old people in Bessemer were being denied the opportunity to shop there or some such nonsense. Bessemer is a high percentage AA. I never did find out what happened with it, but there are lots of AA youths in there on Friday, mostly well behaved, but then again it made national news on Black Friday when police had to shut the place down due to fighting. I wouldn’t go in there at all if the fast Chinese place wasn’t fairly priced and decent, and the Lego store wasn’t there.
For reference there were two malls in Irondale that longtime residents of the Birmingham metro area tell me the downfall came when they starting running busses from feral areas. I saw one in its death throes when I moved here. It’s closed now. The other was demolished and a Walmart built in its place. The Walmart is one of those big nice ones,with dyed concrete floors, but you can tell by the way stuff is arranged especially in the pharmacy dept that they still have a major shrink problem.
Jm2b
You have to have a membership card that you PAY for to get into a COSTCO store. And maybe that's the real reason for the annual fee?
ML/NJ