Next time you head to Costco, make sure you have your plastic or digital membership card – and a matching ID. The members-only warehouse retailer is really starting to crack down on non-members.

Wholesale retail giant Costco appears to be cracking down even further on non-members and testing out new ways to verify memberships. A photo posted by Costco Insider on X, formerly known as Twitter, ...

Next time you head to Costco, make sure you have your plastic or digital membership card – and a matching ID. The members-only warehouse retailer is really starting to crack down on non-members.

Costco appears to be testing a digital ID scanning station at the front door of at least one of its stores. Shoppers spotted the tech at the store near Costco’s corporate headquarters in Issaquah, ...

If you've managed to shop at Costco as a nonmember over the years, your luck is running out. The members-only wholesaler will scan customer's membership cards upon entrance. In doing so, people who've ...

Costco has transformed how shoppers enter its warehouses. The company now requires all visitors to scan their membership ...

Costco is changing the way its members can enter its stores. There will be no more quick flashes of the card to show an awaiting employee. The retailer will be rolling out card scanners to check that ...

Costco is testing a new way to keep non-members out of their stores. A photo posted on Reddit from Jan. 7 shows a Costco greeter scanning a customer's card in a warehouse in Issaquah, Washington, ...

Costco now requires members to scan their membership card or QR code to enter its warehouses, in another bid to limit shopping to paying members, but the rollout of scanning devices may take months.

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