I ordered a cake utilizing Costco's 'mysterious' field system, and can by no means doubt the big-box retailer's strategies once more
- In Could, a tweet make clear Costco’s cake-ordering course of, which some individuals referred to as outdated.
- You may’t name to order — you will need to write your order on a kind and bodily slip it right into a field.
- Baffled by the seemingly archaic technique, I made a decision to check it for myself.
Final month, a tweet about Costco’s cake-ordering process went viral, with the big-box retailer’s technique baffling Twitter customers (myself included). The tweet, from consumer Lucy Huber, identified that if you wish to order a cake from Costco, you will need to write down your order and place it right into a field — you’ll be able to’t name or order on-line.
Some individuals had been fast to name the “mysterious cake field” old style or outdated, with Huber herself saying it felt like a system created within the 1800s. However what most shocked me wasn’t the field itself — it was another commenters’ impassioned responses to Huber’s tweet.
—Jonathan Graf (@jonathangraf) May 11, 2023
On Twitter customers assured her the cake can be there, with one saying they belief Costco’s paper-in-box technique “greater than the USPS.”
This stage of fervor from Costco followers persuaded me. With my cousin’s bridal bathe arising, it was time to strive the mysterious cake field for myself.
