Sunday, April 20, 2014

Is there a secret shopping code at Costco?






This is no "holy grail" secret except to Costco and how they do their inventories. Every retailer has a system --red tags, slashes, Green dots, SKUs that all begin with 3,4....6 zeroes. UPCs that end in different digits (which usually coincides with shipment receive dates), all result in inventory coding which is not really a "secret".
You can ask although the answer(s) you get might be all over the map if you get one at all, but you may get a friendly manager or store owner that has a fun streak  who makes their store "codes" into a  treasure hunt or possibly certain codes go with in-store or online ONLY promotions.
Bottom line the coding is no giant secret, but well known to anyone that does any sort of inventory, warehousing, purchasing or merchandising.

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