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> Other stores have figured this out.

Not CostCo though! I open their page and immediately 'Can Costco.ca use your location?" I say yes and then it asks me what province I'm in. I tell it, and then it defaults me to a store 30 minutes' drive from here and not the one five minutes away. Every. Time.





Costco’s website is worse than useless. It doesn’t tell you anything useful beyond the hours.

I have to believe it’s intentional.


On the contrary, you can also search for items with easily the least useful search I've ever seen.

Pizza pockets? Okay, anything that mentions pizza, or pockets. So frozen pizzas, in-store-made pizzas, pizza flavored pringles, pants with pockets, dresses with pockets, frozen items that are similar to pizzas but aren't pizzas, frozen items which aren't similar to pizzas, granola bars I guess, basketballs, and so on.

It seems as though their search just takes the search terms, matches them against every item in their database in order of relevance, and then just shows you everything regardless of how relevant it is. 0.00121 out of 100? Well, it's still technically relevant! Let's show it just in case!




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