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Costco Is Now Refusing Returns on High-Demand Items Like Rice And Toilet Paper
Yahoo finance ^ | March 20, 2020 | Kristin Salaky

Posted on 03/20/2020 1:09:15 PM PDT by Morgana

Notices posted at Costco this week indicate the store is no longer accepting returns on key items that many are stocking up on the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

The signs, posted by several Costco Instagram accounts (not affiliated with the store itself), indicate that returns are not being accepted on toilet paper, paper towels, rice, water, sanitizing wipes, and Lysol.

It's not clear if the new policy is store-by-store or part of a national corporate push. Costco announced limits earlier this week on certain items that have seen a spike in purchases as customers stock up. This could be part of that policy, but we've reached out to Costco for more information. For the time being, it's best to refer to your local Costco for more information on its policies.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: costco; instagram; lysol; papertowels; rice; sanitizingwipes; toiletpaper; water
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To: thescourged1

They’ll just gift them. Prepare for gifts of hand sanitizer, wet wipes, and bar soap for years to come.


101 posted on 03/20/2020 2:36:40 PM PDT by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
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To: dragnet2

They will be using their TP for poker chips!!!


102 posted on 03/20/2020 2:44:18 PM PDT by tallyhoe
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To: Dr. Ursus
That's even more comical.

I have 4 cats. All love to hunt, kill, and eat rodents. All I have to do is turn them out to do what they do naturally, they won't starve, just get leaner and meaner. Dogs on the other hand, are pretty much dependent on humans feeding them or scavenging through their trash. Guess I better don my flame-suit now...lol

103 posted on 03/20/2020 2:54:21 PM PDT by thescourged1
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To: Morgana

Extra attic insulation.
Bonfire starter.
Paper mache’ projects.


104 posted on 03/20/2020 2:58:32 PM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: stars & stripes forever

“They can donate the surplus to their local food pantries.”

That is a great idea!

Last year for personal and business insurance I spent over $10,000. Been doing that every year for a long time. A couple years ago I finally made use of it for $4,000 of stolen equipment.

I view my modest preparations as insurance. Although at least with the cleaning supplies I’m already getting use out of that. Along with the food that limits our trips going out. And share stuff with friends that need it.


105 posted on 03/20/2020 3:02:38 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: FightforFreedomCA

> ...I don’t know how they can enforce the policy after the fact.

I imagine buried somewhere in their policy is a statement along the lines of “The policies are subject to change”.


106 posted on 03/20/2020 3:05:17 PM PDT by Do_Tar (To my NSA handler: I have an alibi.)
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To: cuban leaf

Won’t be returning my Coronavirus/Hurricane/SHTF supply of Costco zipfizz, caveman bars and pistachios.


107 posted on 03/20/2020 3:09:06 PM PDT by epluribus_2 (He, had the best mom - ever. my)
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To: captain_dave

“Rice is very a poor food to try and survive on.”

Whenever I’ve been caught with a meager meal I remember my Vietnamese hair cutter. As a child she and her mom would beg in the street after the war. She got one ball of rice to eat each day.

“I was so jealous of my older brother who got two balls of rice. But he went to work on a farm all day so he needed it more.”

Her younger sister didn’t survive though - starved to death.


108 posted on 03/20/2020 3:09:49 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: linear

Publix here in Florida has no trouble stocking bottled water during Hurricanes. I suspect there is TP in the warehouses but they don’t want to fill their trucks with it. They’d rather put other merchandise on it.


109 posted on 03/20/2020 3:14:54 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: Morgana

Sounds right to me. Let the hoarders choke on the stuff.


110 posted on 03/20/2020 3:18:58 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (We are governed by the consent of the governed and we are fools for allowing it.)
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To: EnquiringMind
Toilet paper lasts. No need to eat it.

Generally yes, but....a friend of mine has a farm and went to Iraq for a year on a contract job and when he came back, field mice had chewed up all his toilet paper. ha ha

111 posted on 03/20/2020 3:32:25 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: dragnet2

one lady ordered on line and was ship some 80 years worth of TP. They will not take it back


112 posted on 03/20/2020 3:35:36 PM PDT by dirtymac (Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.(DT4POTUS))
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To: dirtymac

Sounds like she’s positioned to become a wholesale distributor, unless she paid too much per.


113 posted on 03/20/2020 3:39:46 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: metmom

Good move too, because once that stuff has been in people’s homes, you don’t know if it’s been contaminated.
By restocking it, they could potentially be exposing someone else.


That was my first reaction as well, and not just by Coronavirus.

The unpaid “renting” to obviate risk, that others mention, is also problematic.


114 posted on 03/20/2020 3:41:33 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Morgana

That;s smart. Let the hoarding losers eat many, many rice bowls for the foreseeable future.


115 posted on 03/20/2020 3:45:59 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: 9YearLurker

Well the Costco I went in deleted every item in the snack bar except hot dogs and ice cream and the sit down tables were gone too.


116 posted on 03/20/2020 3:47:20 PM PDT by xp38
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To: captain_dave

Rice is very a poor food to try and survive on.


But it is a good base for other foods if you have to stretch supplies. I had some buttered Langostino lobster on it, with some cheese melted in, for a snack today.


117 posted on 03/20/2020 3:51:06 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: xp38

Costco without hot dogs isn’t Costco.


118 posted on 03/20/2020 3:52:11 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: linear
There would be no shortage if stores could charge 5$ a roll. Hoarding would stop forthwith.

And the elderly on small, limited incomes would still be screwed......

Hoarders will be hoarders and they're the ones responsible for all this crap, not the merchants...

Fortunately this is short term and all the hoarders of TP will have enough TP for the next 6 to 8 months and in a couple of weeks there will be enough for everybody on the shelves......

119 posted on 03/20/2020 3:55:09 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I went to China and all I got was a damn cheap face mask....)
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To: CatOwner
Lawsuits coming in 3 ..., 2..., 1...


120 posted on 03/20/2020 3:55:54 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (Hillary Clinton: Just like Joe with only half the dementia.)
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