I’ve met that sales bitch that sizes you up from afar, only to approach with no intention of providing customer service but to give you a close up of his sneer before he pretends to assist you by preemptively showing you the door. I think clerks like that would prefer you wait inside the door while they go fetch at a leisurely pace what it is they think you might be looking for and had the audacity to assume their store might sell it, but no you’ve intrudeed upon their daytime hangout and interrupted the small talk, the nerve of some customers! (JCpenney and Arnies I’m looking at you!)
Heh… yeah. Don’t take it personally. I wish I were 32x34.
I had no idea there was a clothing department at Costco until just now.
I’ve literally destroyed stacks of blanket sleepers looking for size 18 months (which apparently Costco NEVER orders enough of), and not once have I had a clerk come up and asked me if I needed help. I’d like the help–I don’t want to spend 10 minutes looking through 20 stacks of baby clothes 25 pieces deep if I’m not going to find what I’m looking for at the end of it.
No one should have to suffer the burden of messy piles.
I haven’t been in Costco, but at BJ’s (the membership warehouse where *this *cheap fuck buys his sweatshop jeans) it’s a series of tables positioned roughly between the “Crappy Mass-Market Books Stacked Higgledy-Piggledy” department and the “Oil-Drum-Sized Containers of Chocolate-covered Pretzels” department.
The Lord never gives you more messy piles than you can sort. Never!
Our BJs doesn’t even carry clothing.
But I have to say that when I used to shop at Costco, I never even saw an employee away from the registers that wasn’t either handing out free samples or driving around a forklift. The OP’s story is completely foreign to my experience.
I wonder if the OP would be writing a rant about how she or he can’t find their fucking size because the clothes are so disorganized.
N.B. the folks giving out the free samples are not Costco employees. They work for a company that is contracted to run the demos. The point being, they will not be able to direct you to the aisle of the store where you will find the product you’re looking for; only the product that they are demonstrating.
Hijack: I’ve always wanted to put on a performance piece, where the free sample person is handing out single squares of toilet paper, and there’s a Port-A-Potty right behind the table. 
The real problem here is the scarcity of 32x34 pants.
Tall, skinny people actually exist, Costco!
Costco often doesn’t even bother to carry odd sizes. Its sort of the nature of the beast. As said upthread, the clerk probably knows what is on the table and can tell you. That way you don’t waste your time looking through piles fruitlessly, or hers, reconstructing those piles.
You’re mad… because when you were pulling apart neatly folded stacks of clothes… someone who worked in the store… offered to help you… and then saved you the time of looking through more stacks and themself the effort of refolding and stacking all those clothes… ?
In the sense of “having more bodies around makes people less likely to shoplift,” maybe. I highly doubt it’s in the active “if you see someone shoplifting, do something to stop them” sense. Anybody I’ve known who’s worked retail has been not just not specifically tasked with loss prevention, but specifically instructed not to interfere with it. My lil’ bro, for example, worked at a clothing store in high school, where the *only *people who were allowed to stop a shoplifter were the managers, and for a manager to stop someone, they had to see the person (a) take the item, (b) hide the item, and (c) attempt to walk out with the item, all while never losing sight of the person for even a moment.
And if they blinked, they had to do it one eye at a time.
You weren’t allowed to blink on the floor. That’s what your coffee breaks were for.
Can I ask something I always wondered?
Why don’t the stores just fold and stack the clothes so that the labels of each individual garment are clearly visible, or can be observed without disturbing the pile?
Many do, I think what happens is folks pull out the garment to get a btter look at it, maybe hod up against themselves to see if it looks like it will fit. Then they just throw back on the pile, soon everyone is just digging without regard through the clothes to see if they can find the right size.
I can’t find 30x30s there either, but have never had an employee approach me about it. The jeans piles are a mess before I get there.
I have a tangential Costco rant. I realize that I’m sort of pointlessly ranting here, but hear me out:
So, a few months ago, a friend wanted to get one of those little Acer type little notebookey laptoppy things (I don’t know what the actual proper name is, but you know what I mean: the $200 computer thing) and I was looking for another higher end electronics product. We checked out Walmart, then decided to pop over to Costco. Now, neither of us had a membership, but we both agreed that if they had something like we wanted (and per their website, they did), we’d both get memberships that day, buy our good, and life would be good.
Except they wouldn’t even let us in the store to look without buying a membership. Now, I get it- that’s their thing. But I tried to calmly explain to the door person (and the manager she called over) the situation: we’d like to buy things, including memberships, today- so long as they had what we needed in stock. Could we just pop over and look? It’s not like we can buy anything without a membership anyway.
No, no way. They wouldn’t let us beyond the door unless one of us signed up for a full membership. I asked why I would buy a membership to something I can’t even look at first (the whole store) and they said that’s just how it works. They said they MIGHT be able to get a manager to escort us, but we’d need to sit down and wait outside (in the cold wind and rain) until they were available. I asked why and they said loss prevention. Oddly, Sam’s Club was more than happy to let us look around- sans manager-, thus they got our business for both memberships and both products.
Stupid, stupid Costco.
Netbook.