The very clever tricks Costco uses to entice you into buying far more than you intended to READ MORE: Costco's controversial crackdown rolls out to more stores By Melissa Koenig For Dailymail.Com Published: 22:37 EDT, 20 August 2024 | Updated: 22:37 EDT, 20 August 2024 e-mail View comments Costco executives have revealed the clever tricks they use to entice members into buying far more than they intended. The wholesale club offers two types of shopping experiences, they explained in their third-quarter earnings call, according to The Street.
The first provides members with a well-curated selection of grocery and household items at low prices - which usually draw shoppers into its warehouses. But Costco also offers an ever-changing collection of items, which create a desired treasure hunt experience. The items can be anything from clothing, to furniture, toys and gift cards that are too good to pass up.
Costco offers members two types of shopping experiences, including a treasure hunt to buy items they were not expecting to buy, but which are at deals that are too good to miss For the grocery section, that means offering a variety of international foods from its warehouses in other countries. 'We were just in a session with our grocery divisions and talking there,' CEO Ron Vachris said in the third-quarter earnings call in May. 'And we've seen a great success in international foods that have been brought into the US and then of the like, from the US into the other regions of t.