Let me start with an unsponsored confession: I love Costco.

There, it’s out of the way. I’m promoting an enterprise, but they’re not paying me to do so. And I don’t want to annoy every merchant from coast to coast. Shop where you care to shop, dear readers. This is just a septuagenarian love song for my weekly excuse to get out of the house, go somewhere fun and spend an affordable chunk of my pension money.