Gig Harbor Costco customer upset over limit on water threatens employees
Gig Harbor WA Aug 26 2021 A customer upset that Costco would not let him buy more than one case of water called the store on Aug. 12 and threatened the staff with “great danger” for the “assault on his freedom and rights.”
Many retail stores have been limiting water purchases because of high demand during the recent heat waves.
Gig Harbor police said the man was angry because he was not allowed to buy more than one case of water at the big-box store at 10990 Harbor Hill Drive.
Officers were told the customer called the Costco customer service center and told an employee that the staff of the store “would be in great danger” unless they sold him more water.
Costco suspended his membership and Gig Harbor police sent him a trespass letter barring him from the store.