Warehouse shopping may be holding you back

Have you paid for a warehouse club shopping card? Do you feel as though you are treated poorly when you are at the store? Well, you’re not alone. Here are some things from Smart Money that warehouse stores may inform you of but not implicitly TELL you when you sign up for your cards en masse.

1. Now that you’ve paid for your dues, it’s time to get in line. Haha! Now they have you and your cart full of groceries, you have to wait in line for those in front of you who have cases upon cases of mountain dew and Pepsi.

2. You should probably have some kind of construction wear to shop at this store. This means that on more than one occasion, shoppers to warehouse stores have had merchandise fall on their heads while they were trying to shop.

3. Don’t sign up for our credit cards, seriously. A credit card from one of these warehouse stores will eat away at your account with an interest rate of 23.15% APR on average. If you have a Sam’s card, your phone will ring and ring with offers from GE money. I find this one kind of funny because I have a Sam’s card and also am offered a credit card every time I shop at the store, but have never been called and offered the credit card.

4.  We got you with our sparkly jewelry, hook, line, and sinker! Jewelry from a warehouse store is too good to be true. I don’t know what kind of lights they use to make those gems sparkle, but even my five year old engagement ring sparkles under those lights…if only they would follow us at all times, right? Anyway, most of the times when they say the diamonds will appraise higher than retail they won’t.

5. You will leave when we tell you to leave. Here’s where it gets tricky…I have only ever had a Sam’s club card and every time my husband and I have gone to leave a Sam’s Club, we have been stopped at the front door for the person to “check” everything in our cart. Are they really able to check what we have purchased? Probably not, but if that is what makes their day complete, than who am I to get in the way of that? There are many people out there who feel as though it is their right not to have to show their reciept to the “checker” at the door and in the eyes of the law; they are right.

However, you can be banned from the warehouse store if you completely ignore the rules of the store, including having your receipt checked by the checker at the door.

I have a warehouse club card (Sam’s Club) due to the fact that is what my parent’s give Chris and me for Christmas. The card is one of those things that we look forward to every year even though we barely use it throughout.

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