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Luis Villa

@skinnylatte Also it turns out that when you don’t hire pharmacists it is hard to sell pharmaceuticals; sun rises in East; etc.

Signed, guy who finally switched to Amazon Pharmacy for everything that’s not burningly time sensitive because waiting for hours in a Walgreens aisle is unappealing

15 January at 18:04 | Wall-to-wall | Open on social.coop
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Adrianna Tan

@luis_in_brief yeah I do Costco, just a much better experience all around

15 January at 18:06 | Open on hachyderm.io
Luis Villa

@skinnylatte Yeah I’ve been wondering if it is finally time to do a Costco membership to replace Prime.

15 January at 18:13 | Open on social.coop
Adrianna Tan

@luis_in_brief it has all of the staples but delivery is weird. You can’t easily get random stuff like ‘a two to three prong adapter’ or ‘one single plug with four USB’s’

Then things they do have are very good.

You can deliver some things from Costco.com but not fresh things (for which you have to use sameday.costco.com, which is Instacart).

The savings on toilet paper, kitchen towels, Impossible nuggets (they have the large pack no one else does for the same price as the small one), detergent and pharmacy is worth the cost for me tho (in addition to prime).

The pharmacy is really good and their out of pocket prices for optometry and pharmacy is comparable to insured prices for both at non-Costco places. Very cheap vaccines even without insurance. (Which helped when I was job hunting)

@luis_in_brief it has all of the staples but delivery is weird. You can’t easily get random stuff like ‘a two to three prong adapter’ or ‘one single plug with four USB’s’

Then things they do have are very good.

You can deliver some things from Costco.com but not fresh things (for which you have to use sameday.costco.com, which is Instacart).

15 January at 18:16 | Open on hachyderm.io
Adrianna Tan

@luis_in_brief you can also use Costco pharmacy without being a member! But if it’s not super close to you then it’s not useful

15 January at 18:18 | Open on hachyderm.io
Luis Villa

@skinnylatte I’m in the south side of the Mission, so just a mile and a half to the SOMA Costco. Easy cargo bike ride. (I don’t really Prime all that much anyway, though I suppose that’s famous last words 😂)

15 January at 18:20 | Open on social.coop
Adrianna Tan

@luis_in_brief nice, their bike packing is good, right by the ramps to go upstairs

Also best for annual eye exams and glasses ahahahah

I don’t drink anymore but their alcohol is basically rebranded top shelf stuff. First membership I got when I got to the US :)

15 January at 18:21 | Open on hachyderm.io
Erin Kissane

@luis_in_brief @skinnylatte Our Costco is also usually the first/only place in town to get Novavax—they're really on the ball, thanks to actual staffing.

15 January at 18:16 | Open on mas.to
Adrianna Tan

@kissane @luis_in_brief yeah they were the only place in SF that has Novavax. Probably still true.

15 January at 18:18 | Open on hachyderm.io
Adrianna Tan

@kissane @luis_in_brief when I went to get my booster when I was out of the job, the pharmacists there even gave me 50% off coz they were sad I didn’t have insurance haha

15 January at 18:20 | Open on hachyderm.io
Nicovel0

@skinnylatte @kissane @luis_in_brief living in UK here, and it blows my mind you get your vaccines from *Costco*

15 January at 18:20 | Open on mastodon.social
Adrianna Tan

@Nicovel0 @kissane @luis_in_brief Costco should probably run some parts of the government, and I say this as a former government worker. They get a lot of things right.

Their pharmacy is huge and also has discounted prescriptions for dogs and cats haha

Honestly think it’s a better pharmacy experience than a Main Street pharmacy, not just here

They also sell windows, tires, petrol, and I don’t buy toilet paper from anywhere else lol

15 January at 18:24 | Open on hachyderm.io
Nicovel0
Andres "🧠🐛✊" Salomon

@skinnylatte @Nicovel0 @kissane @luis_in_brief It's also a lot of fun to bike down the street with a massive 30-roll pack of tp bungied to a rear rack.

15 January at 18:36 | Open on social.ridetrans.it
Pomegranate_Stew

@Nicovel0 @skinnylatte @kissane @luis_in_brief
Technically it’s from the pharmacy in Costco. Most (all?) US states allow pharmacists to give vaccines. We get ours from a grocery store pharmacy.

15 January at 20:52 | Open on kind.social
Ned Raggett

@luis_in_brief @skinnylatte This, I admit, is exactly what I did as well, for the exact same reason.

15 January at 18:20 | Open on sfba.social
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