Costco 4+

I love Costco. I have a membership to both Costco and Sam’s. Each place has their pros and cons but my preference for shopping is Costco overall. Now one area Sam’s Club KILLS Costco is with their app. Not only do you get Scan and Go but also you can check the store inventory right there with the app, you can pay for your gas through the app, you can place an order to be picked up through the app etc. The Costco app is really just bare bones. Yes I’m glad I can have my membership card on my phone but why can’t I scan that card at the gas pump at least? The only people that don’t have to worry about that are those with the credit card since their membership is attached to it. The app is also very slow at basic tasks like checking an order status, normally I have to kill the app and start over just to get it to work. Why can’t I see the prices of items at my local store, or even if they have any stock? This app has a LONG way to go to become as useful as Sam’s Club’s app. It doesn’t have to be a copy of it, but inheriting some of the features would be very nice.

Update: This App is completely useless now, can’t even browsing ‼️All I see is “mobile services unavailable “ when I open the App‼️‼️‼️

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This App is getting worse each update‼️Why‼️Why‼️Why‼️🤨 It’s completely useless now‼️‼️‼️ This app has become unusable, now it seems fixed the language setting issues, but then 95% of the time is not loading, all I’ve got is “Costco Mobile Services Unavailable” 🤔⁉️; when everything is working with my iPad except Costco App🙄 I just can not believe this is come out from Costco‼️😐🤢 As more people shopping online, the App should get better, not worse, period‼️🤨 I don’t know what’s happening with this Costco app, they fixed the sign in issue, but now out of the blue, there is a pop up asking to set the language for the app, why, why, why⁉️🤨 I’ve been using the app, the next day opened the app (I didn’t update the app, just using it), saw the pop up with no good reasons, makes me don’t want to use it anymore❗️I just can’t believe this Costco app is getting worse and worse‼️🥴 The app is broken‼️🥴 I used to be able to sign into my account in the app & make purchase, till two days ago, out of no where, I’m not able to sign in anymore⁉️ What have they done❓❓❓ Now the app is useless except for browsing🤨🥺🤢

So I usually never give ratings but seriously who are the engineers dealing with this e-commerce app. The app very infrequently loads information correctly. Today I couldn’t see all the ratings on my mobile app. And I’ve tried refreshing it and closing the app and clicking the blue link that says (183 reviews) near the product name. BUT gee. And this isn’t my first time with issues accessing information. Costco, why are you likely hiring external vendors to make your app when I’m sure you’re getting a lot of orders. You’re losing orders because the app couldn’t even load an add to cart button on some pillows I wanted to buy. And it’s frustrating how there are blank white spots on the app that I scroll past. And I have one of the latest phones - I don’t have like an iPhone 4 that developers don’t develop for anymore. I have a very functioning iPhone 11. As someone who works in tech, I think you guys could do better in building this app out and I wonder what backend issues are happening since this has happened a lot for me during the last 4 months where it doesn’t work in the way that I’d expect it to.