Checking an item’s availability online is not an option.
Both the Costco website and mobile app are completely useless in this regard.
At least not yet.
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Indeed, Costco members on Reddit have been clamoring for this feature for years.
“Even Walmart has this feature,“one shopper wroteback in 2020.
Theories abound as to why the popular warehouse club has lagged behind its competitors for so long.
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Others suggest the company’s foot-dragging is simply by design.
“They want you in the store.
$$$,“one asserted.
Not foolproof but super helpful and accurate for the most part.”
