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Costco cracking down on membership sharing

I did not realize that Costco membership sharing was such a big problem!

Costco is having its Netflix moment [Sherwood] – “A friend of mine lost their wallet yesterday, but was relatively unfazed. Credit cards, drivers’ licenses – those can be easily replaced or worked around with other touchless digital solutions. Most agonizing? His old roommate’s Costco membership card he’d been gifted was now gone – and with it, his side-door into a land of cheap food in high quantities. But lost wallet or not, that access was vanishing anyways. Just this week, his nearest Costco in Colorado installed new scanners at entry to verify that the people entering were actually members.”