Originally Posted by user52165
Originally Posted by zmelli
I Back in the Day, I would buy tires at Costco on sale before I needed them. Stack them in my Garage for 6m to 8m , return them back to the tire shop and hand pick fresh DOTs. The Costco Tire shop employees did not have a problem with this. Things have changed at Costco now, I recently Bought a Battery and attempted to hand pick the freshest date, well the Tire Shop Nazi (company man) Manager came running over and told me I need to grab the oldest one! there was only a 1 Month difference between the oldest and the others in stock. The warranty went from 42M to 36M! I could not believe it, these corporate cronies are programmed to bow down to the shareholders. I figured he won employee of the month for this.
Most people did not have a clue, even the tire shop employees what the numbers on the tires were for back then.
I will call this bogus. Been a Costco member since 1984 and before that I worked at it's predecessor - Fedmart. No employee would do that. Same as picking freshest milk, produce, bread, etc, or anything with a date. Report it if it really happened.
Quite ironic that you exchange 6 - 8 month older tires for newer dates but complain about being sold 1 month older battery.
There were reports of Costco customers returning dead Christmas trees for refunds in January. Typical entitlement BS.