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Price protection at Metro Vancouver Costcos is now 30 days — firm. It used to be longer in the past. Looks like the Island has been the longest adjustment policy.

You can buy any item at the new lower price and return the higher priced item. Beware though, Costco does keeps track of both your returns and price adjustments.

Just to clarify not to give people false hope. There’s no across the board “rain check” policy at Costco. The store manager explained to me that it all depends on the manufacturer. Sometimes they will offer it, but *most* of the time they will not.

As a guide though, you’re** likely** to get a “rain check” for items in their **coupon** flyer. Again, there’s no guarantee. There’s no staff “conspiracy”. If they can, they will grant you a rain check but it’s becoming rarer these days.

And yeah, Richmond has some of the tightest and most stringent policies of any Costco. It also seems to have the most unhappy shoppers too.

I found in Edmonton area it’s 30 days for “coupon” ie price match to sale. That being said, I wish they would just extend to 60 or 90 days because you could just be a pain in their ass, by buying the product on sale and returning with the original receipt anyway. In fact, once I didn’t have the receipt they told me to do that–that their system wouldn’t pick up the purchase from 5 minutes ago, and they would look up the original purchase and refund that price. ALSO, YES….. when are baby wipes going on sale again?? I’m on my last pack!!! lol

ah, I see

you have a section where people can see the sales from last week if they log in

sorry… posted too soon

Does anyone know if Costco’s in Alberta are open tomorrow?

I don’t think I’ve ever been to the Richmond Costco, but it seems like I’m always hearing stories about the Richmond Costco being a zoo. Port Coquitlam usually has everything in stock, but it’s a bit of a drive. Downtown Vancouver is closer, but they have a different assortment of items. You might have better luck at one of the Burnaby Costco stores.

They can give you a raincheck voucher for the sale price if it’s out of stock. That’s what happened to me previously at the Kelowna warehouse.

What a frustrating experience.

We returned minutes ago from the Richmond Costco. I don’t think we’ll shop there again.

Many of the items posted here, both as a paid member Early Access member and items in the coupon were out of stock. Even the dairy and produce section had most items out of stock. We checked with the floor supervisor and every other Costco in Metro Vancouver had the items we asked them to check.

What’s your favorite or worst Costco you have shopped at?