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Why can't you go shopping yourself? I am genuinely curious, not being sarcastic. Costco is typically stuff that you buy once a month if that; can you not even spare an hour or two once a month to go shopping?

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That was in May, shopping at Costco means waiting in line outside for a couple of hours. We are also a high risk household. Costco was the only shop that does grocery delivery at the time (amazon fresh was totally not available then). It’s an easy decision between shopping at store, or online and have them delivered the next day. We are using the Costco website, so I think maybe the bug is in their integration.

Fair enough. I never got the appeal of Instacart & the like but I guess it is good that the option is there should one need it.

I actually never used the Instacart app and I can care less. I do care about the Costco next day grocery delivery service, which has a transparent integration with Instacart. That is, I order on Costco.com and Instacart will deliver it next day. Costco won’t allow me to chose other vendors for delivery.

If you use Instacart app to order items from Costco the price is actually different. I guess using Costco.com I have my membership benefit.

> I actually never used the Instacart app and I can care less.

What is the meaning you are trying to convey here? Genuinely confused by this sentence.

I too see this phrase used and it often seems to imply the opposite meaning of what is intended. It is indeed confusing.

Generally the phrase is "I couldn't care less", meaning it is impossible to care any less than I already do.

I think "I can care less" is meant to mean "I can care less than most people do, because it doesn't matter to me".

In my experience people say "I can/could care less" when they mean to say "couldn't care less". An incorrect correction of the double negative.

Thanks for the language advice!

Sorry for the confusion. What I meant is that I have never made a purchase from instacart app or from instacart.com website. Instead, I am placing online orders in costco app (and sometimes with a browser on costco.com) for grocery. Instarcart is a vendor for costco's grocery delivery. When I say I don't care about instacart, I meant I am a customer of costco for this order journey, not a customer to instacart.

When did Costco have lines outside? I’ve been to several Costco’s during the pandemic and never waited at a single one. The worst that happened was toilet paper being out.

It impressed me why people still think that their anecdata somehow applies to the world. Your personal experience has nothing to do with the experience of the previous shopper and there is no reason why you should doubt them for such a mondane thing. Or you could just use Google and reads the dozens of results. Someone even came up with an app in Toronto to track COVID lines at Costco https://www.blogto.com/eat_drink/2020/04/costco-stores-toron...

Costco is worldwide?

Costco operates in a dozen countries.

Is this supposed to a be rhetorical question or are you genuinely unable to use Google to discover simple facts?

If the two choices are "costco serves me" and "costco is worldwide", the latter is much closer to the truth.

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