Here is the third in my series of pictures when I went to the Costco North Lakes opening day last Thursday in the evening.

Since these pictures we have been back again as I didn’t buy anything on the first trip in, although I wanted to.

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As I said I went down to the Costco North Lakes opening and have already posted up the first lot of pictures here.

The experience as I have told other people during the day was pretty overwhelming in a good way and I’ll explain.

I am the type of person that likes to walk into a museum or fun park and have to do everything there or see everything and it pains me if I don’t get to do this.

When you walk into Costco for the first time you don’t know where to go or where to look as there is just so much there in every different category, add onto this the different sizes, different packs, different brands and you have a recipe for getting lost in the whole experience for many hours at a time.

Also this would explain why, in my view, why Costco doesn’t have a full retail website selling their wares, it would be massive and a behemoth to maintain and also probably wouldn’t do the brand justice in regards to the feeling when you first walk in, look around and say to yourself, wow…. this place is huge.

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