The Costco coupon incident
October 8, 2009Jon Brooks Comments OffOne of the extracts in our last entry about uncommon economic indicators, concerning Costco coupons, comes from this longer post on a Marist College history professor’s blog. Here is the entire post, which describes a fight over coupons at a New York City-area Costco:
I am a regular Saturday morning grocery shopper at the Costco in Yonkers. I inquired at the entrance about if the store had the coupons that they mail out to all members. An employee said yes, “they are like gold man!” He repeated the phrase emphatically, “they are like gold!”
He explained, earlier in the week a cop-calling fight broke out over Costco Food coupons. While shopping in one of the aisles the first customer stepped away from her carriage with a coupon book inside it to get something off a shelf. The second customer helped herself to the coupons, which resulted in a pitched battle in the middle of the Costco. My Costco informant said, the two women “got up in each others’ faces ready to fight!” The first women called the Yonkers police department on her cell phone to report a robbery.
When the officers arrived on the scene and the first women demanded the arrest of the coupon thief immediately. One of the officers responded, “Lady if you ever call us again over some Costco food coupons, we will arrest you!”
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