Stopped by Costco in Independence, Missouri tonight to pick up a bag of coffee beans. Took my mask off as soon as I was 5' past the greeter (as I usually do), went straight over to the coffee section, snagged a bag of beans and proceeded to the self-checkout aisle. As I'm tendering out, a guy with a clipboard (we'll call him CovidMaskFaggot #1) comes up to me and says "You're going to need to put a mask on if you want to shop here," to which I replied "No, thank you." He says, "In that case I'm terminating this transaction" and SHUTS OFF THE MACHINE! I looked him in the eye and said "Would you please turn that on so that I can pay for my beans and be on my way?" and he says "Not without a mask on." I said "Why are you acting like such an asshole?" He immediately gets on the radio and calls for a manager. I said, "Yeah - get manager, I'd like to speak with him." CovidMaskFaggot#1 scurries off to intercept the manager who has emerged from the back office (we'll call him CovidMaskFaggot #2). I make my way over there and say "Hi! I'd like to pay for these beans, please." Without missing a beat CovidMaskFaggot #2 says "Were you abusive to CovidMaskFaggot #1?" I said "Not until CovidMaskFaggot #1 started acting like a piece of shit to me." CovidMaskFaggot #2 snags the beans out of my hand, says that abuse of their associates will "not be tolerated" and asks me to leave. So I calmly left. Called wife on the way home and proposed canceling our membership...but that I didn't need an answer right away, just think about it. We spend a lot of money there on groceries and I expense office supplies there for my employer (work for a very small business - boss is out-of-state). I can't in good conscience go on rewarding that kind of heavy-handed authoritarianism with my hard-earned money.
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if the business says wear a mask, then wear the damn mask....don't wear it at home or in your yard or your car or out for a walk or anywhere they don't require it.....
we've got bigger battles....
Don't wear the mask. Prepare to walk straight the fuck out, and tell them you're going directly to their competition. Wear the mask if the competition requires it. Go back every day, do the same thing. Once Costco capitulates, do the same thing to the competition. If managers see customers walking out the door, and hear the competition is getting that money, they'll change their fucking tune, or go into bankruptcy like stock and field.
Costco is a membership only warehouse joint. I can fully imagine that if you do it more than once, they can and will terminate your membership. They make sure you flash your card at the door to get in. You have to swipe your card to buy anything. You have to show your receipt to leave with anything. Based on the story above, it sounds like (especially in his case) they would go through the cameras, timestamp when he swiped, cross reference that shit with the computers and banhammer his ass.
Point is, they will find out who you are and cancel/banhammer you from the place. Then your pointless protest ends. Be smarter, find a better way to protest. Don't make your life unnecessarily hard to prove a point.