MeatManager_

That sounds like something they might have set up themselves, which is a great idea. At my location we just have the back wall, which is usually the home of toilet paper, blocked off, and employees handing out 1 pack per person as they come by. Every day when we open the door we have people running to the back of the store to get in line. Its crazy.

New Zealand should be good enough distance.

Normally 99% are amazing and understanding. But in the last 2 weeks its basically been like this. 50% are just like "okay ya your out no problem thanks", and walk away. 30% say something like "o my god I cant believe your out" and roll their eyes and walk away. 10% are incredibly kind and thank me for working. And of course my favorite last 10% are the people who start yelling at me. Today was probably the worst of it. We had to close off the entrance and only let a certain amount of people in at a time, and I heard there were a few fights that started. I personally had to get in between 2 people who started yelling at each other over the last of our ground beef that we had. It was a fun day.

Literally everything food related. I understand stocking up on frozen chicken and rice. But who the hell needs to buy 50-60lbs of ground beef. How do you even have that much space in your freezer.

It was a corporate decision to make it mandatory, but our GM made that call a few days before that order was passed down. The structure of costco really does give a lot of power and the stores and its employees to make decisions like this even without the approval of corporate.