Wow, reading some of these comments. I think I love my Costco.

If I'm grabbing an item or two and they haven't been moved I can be in and out in under 10 minutes.

Lethbridge AB, some of these other ones sound like an adventure.

Living in Canada, I specially choose clothes without branding or branding I can remove.

I don't advertise for free.

Yeah, that's been my strategy since… college.

Nike logo? Polo logo?

Not a chance.

No-logo clothes are actually the ultimate flex now...

Try my best to do the same:)

This right here, other places have a store brand that can be good or mixed, as well as just plain trash in the aisles.

You know it's decent at Costco or you can return it in a few months when it craps out.

Meanwhile every other large retailer is trying to turn into a copy of Amazon where anyone can sell anything with no quality control

Newfoundland

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u9eTOIGZkOI

I download a game with intent, and they're stored on a larger drive than where my programs/user data is installed.

No, that's a healer.

Whatever flag binds/blinds you.

Or, on the other side of it, you can imagine it's the flag of some group you dislike, one you think is full of ideologues.

Pound shop == dollar store

I suppose I should've figured that one out.

Pound being a verb rather than a noun in much of the English speaking world is a reasonable excuse for not seeing that meaning instantly

Its because we have the metric system over here

Americans manage a further level of confusion by referring to the "pound sign" as #, rather than £, which isn't in US-ASCII nor on the US-102 keyboard layout.

You have to go to Amsterdam for the hash shop

Good point, historically British currency wasn't decimal. "Decimal Day" in which the pound was divided into 100 new pennies happened just a few years before I was born. So I grew up with the physical coins often still denominated in shillings or old (pre-decimal) pence, but knowing (since it was true from before I'd been born) what their actual value was in the only currency system I had ever experienced, so e.g. I see a shilling, I know it's actually 5 new pence. By the time I was a teenager there were very few actual shillings in circulation and lots of new 5p coins and then the coins were deliberately reduced in size anyway, obviously if you still had a shilling it was now obsolete because it was the wrong size.

My mother grew up with the currency around her not being decimal but by her teens the government were explicitly warning that this was coming and she learned that e.g. a pound has 100 new pence in school ready for a career where this would soon go from theory to practice, when she finished school the poster campaigns were running IIRC.

You can completely customize how it looks.

They target people that want quiet/silent cases, obviously not commerical, unless you're going after the long life/warranty service. Or you go for their industrial line.