A woman who worked at Costco corporate for 6 years watched her sister load a cart full of groceries at full shelf price.
No price comparisons. No timing strategy. No label reading. Just grabbing items off the shelf and tossing them in.
She pulled her aside in the parking lot and said:
"You just overpaid by about $80. On a single trip. You're a Costco member. You pay $65 a year for access to a system designed to save you thousands and you're using it like a regular grocery store with bigger carts."
She told her: "Costco has an entire pricing language printed on every single price tag in the store. It tells you whether an item is about to go on clearance, whether it's a manager's special, whether it's being discontinued, whether it's at its lowest possible price, and whether it's coming back. Every employee can read it. Almost no member can."
She said most Costco members think the savings come from buying in bulk. They don't.
"Bulk is the obvious play. It's what Costco wants you to focus on. But the real savings the $2,000–$4,000 a year most families leave on the table come from understanding how Costco prices, rotates, marks down, and liquidates inventory. It's a system. It has rules. The rules are printed right on the price tag. Nobody taught you how to read them."
She said her sister had been a Costco member for 8 years and had never once looked at the top right corner of a price tag.
"That's where the secret is. And once I showed her, she couldn't unsee it. Every trip to Costco became a treasure hunt instead of a chore. She saved over $1,800 in the first year just by reading what was already right in front of her."
Here are the 12 things she said every Costco member should know but almost none do:
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A woman has flown 1.2 million miles on Delta in the last 8 years.
She's a management consultant. 48 weeks a year on the road. 3–4 flights a week. She knows the airline system better than most gate agents.
She told me most passengers throw away between $200 and $800 per trip because they don't understand how airline pricing, seat selection, and rebooking actually work behind the counter.
"People treat flights like vending machines. You put money in, a ticket comes out, and you accept whatever you get. But airlines are running a dynamic negotiation 24/7 adjusting prices, opening seats, and issuing credits. They just built the app to make you think the first price you see is the only price that exists."
She said the gap between what a casual flyer pays and what a smart flyer pays on the exact same flight, same day, same destination is embarrassing.
"I've sat in first class next to someone who paid $1,400. I paid $180. Same flight. Same meal. Same landing time. The difference wasn't status. It was that I understood 10 things the airline doesn't explain to you."
Here are the 10 things she does before every flight that most travelers have never tried:
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For those that still don’t understand what Benghazi was all about:
🚨So here's the REAL story:
Ambassador Stevens was sent to Benghazi to secretly retrieve US made Stinger Missiles that the State Dept had supplied to Ansar al Sharia in Libya WITHOUT Congressional oversight or permission.
Sec State Hillary Clinton had brokered the Libya deal through Ambassador Stevens and a Private Arms Dealer named Marc Turi, but some of the shoulder fired Stinger Missiles ended up in Afghanistan where they were used against our own military. On July 25th, 2012, a US Chinook helicopter was downed by one of them. Not destroyed only because the idiot Taliban didn't arm the missile. The helicopter didn't explode, but it had to land and an ordnance team recovered the missile’s serial number which led back to a cache of Stinger Missiles kept in
Qatar by the CIA.
Obama and Hillary were in full panic mode, so Ambassador Stevens was sent to Benghazi to retrieve the rest of the Stinger Missiles. This was a "do-or-die" mission, which explains the Stand Down Orders given to multiple rescue teams during the siege of the US Embassy.
It was the State Dept, NOT the CIA, that supplied the Stinger Missiles to our sworn enemies because Gen. Petraeus at CIA would not approve supplying the deadly missiles due to their potential use against commercial aircraft. So then, Obama threw Gen. Petraeus under the bus when he refused to testify in support of Obama’s phony claim of a “spontaneous uprising caused by a YouTube video that insulted Muslims.”
Obama and Hillary committed TREASON!
THIS is what the investigation is all about, WHY she had a Private Server, (in order to delete the digital evidence), and WHY Obama, two weeks after the attack, told the UN that the attack was the result of the YouTube video, even though everyone KNEW it was not.
Furthermore, the Taliban knew that the administration had aided and abetted the enemy WITHOUT Congressional oversight or permission, so they began pressuring (blackmailing) the Obama Administration to release five Taliban generals being held at Guantanamo.
Bowe Bergdahl was just a useful pawn used to cover the release of the Taliban generals. Everyone knew Bergdahl was a traitor but Obama used Bergdahl’s exchange for the five Taliban generals to cover that Obama was being coerced by the Taliban about the unauthorized Stinger Missile deal.
So we have a traitor as POTUS that is not only corrupt, but compromised, as well and a Sec of State that is a serial liar, who perjured herself multiple times at the Congressional Hearings on Benghazi. Perhaps this is why no military aircraft were called upon for help in Benghazi: because the administration knew that our enemies had Stinger Missiles that, if used to down those planes, would likely be traced back to the CIA cache in Qatar and then to the State Dept’s illegitimate arms deal in Libya.
Forward this again and again and again until everyone reads the true story of Benghazi.