I don’t like this new thing they implemented at Costco - at least, the stores in the Denver area.
The new thing: scan card, it shows your picture from the membership card and indicates if your membership is active.
This is to ensure people gaining entry to the store have an active membership and/or are not borrowing someone’s membership card.
I declined and worked something out with the manager. We are thinking of canceling our membership.
Is this in place at all Costco stores nationwide? How are you handling it?
Why is this a problem?
Seems like if we ever got full voter id they would do something similar.
I don’t need another thing. I also don’t want it normalized. I also don’t want to go to the store someday and provide them the opportunity to say “TPTB don’t like something you said, you cannot enter”
For sure we are gone if they mandate.
They can refuse you for any reason anyway.
I do understand your point......its the POTENTIAL for abuse that concerns you though I dont see how we can demand id on one hand and then complain when its implemented on the other.
Making sure future laws prevent abuse of the scanning system is something to keep and eye on.
Voting is different than grocery shopping.
Potential is the right word, but i see this as turning up the heat and I’m the frog
Im talking any type of "membership" that would have a valid reason to id and scan.
Also even though though voting and grocery are diffferent it doesnt mean the same type of potential abuse couldnt exist......you COULD be denied a vote just as well you could be denied entry at Costco for some "thought crime"