Shopping Costco During Executive Hour
Dec. 22nd, 2025 07:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerOne of the benefits to Costco Executive Member status Costco rolled out earlier this year is letting Executive members start shopping an hour early. When I wrote about whether Executive membership has been worth it (spoiler: arguably it isn't) a few days ago I mentioned that I've thought several times about hitting up Costco early in the morning for Executive Hour but never actually did it. I always figured, "Nah, I'll just take it easy at home this morning and brave the madding crowds of the hoi polloi later in the day." 🤣 Well, today I finally shopped Executive Hour.
I was up early anyway today because I had an early work meeting on my day off. That's right— not only did I work on my first true day of vacation but it was an early morning meeting! After that I went out to the clinic for a blood draw, then when I came home I had a quick breakfast while Hawk jumped in the car with me to go shopping. At Costco.
We arrived at the Mountain View Costco around 9:15am. Normal opening hour on weekdays is 10am. For Executive members like us, the store's open at 9. And as we pulled into the parking lot, hoping to find a nice, close parking space instead of the usual automotive mob scene, we found... the parking lot mobbed just as much as 1pm on a Saturday.
"Wow, everyone in Mountain View must be an Executive member," I quipped. "And when everyone is Executive—"
"—Nobody is Executive," Hawk finished the line for me. 🤣
So, yeah, that Executive member perk is close to worthless, at least here in the Bay Area.
I was up early anyway today because I had an early work meeting on my day off. That's right— not only did I work on my first true day of vacation but it was an early morning meeting! After that I went out to the clinic for a blood draw, then when I came home I had a quick breakfast while Hawk jumped in the car with me to go shopping. At Costco.
We arrived at the Mountain View Costco around 9:15am. Normal opening hour on weekdays is 10am. For Executive members like us, the store's open at 9. And as we pulled into the parking lot, hoping to find a nice, close parking space instead of the usual automotive mob scene, we found... the parking lot mobbed just as much as 1pm on a Saturday.
"Wow, everyone in Mountain View must be an Executive member," I quipped. "And when everyone is Executive—"
"—Nobody is Executive," Hawk finished the line for me. 🤣
So, yeah, that Executive member perk is close to worthless, at least here in the Bay Area.
