Costco revokes its free coffee grinding services across multiple locations

Costco shoppers are in an uproar online following recent reports that the company has removed a popular in-store feature in multiple locations.

Over the holidays, signs suddenly started popping up detailing how shared coffee grinders would no longer be provided for those who wanted to grind their coffee beans for free before returning home.

Reddit user @phteven1989 revealed the unpleasant news last week with a photo of a sign that read, “Attention Members. Coffee machines will no longer be provided.”

“Oops, I don’t know what happened… but we lost our grinder privileges,” a Reddit user said in a post last Tuesday.

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Costco displays a sign that says, “Attention Members. Coffee machines will no longer be provided.” (Reddit/@phteven1989/Fox News)

Another Reddit user also confirmed the discovery in another thread, where a shopper couldn’t find the service usually found near the cash register and food counter.

“What happened that they forced to remove the grinders?” asked user @StinklePink.

Both Reddit posts were quickly flooded with comments from fellow disappointed shoppers.

Fox Business: apply to Costco for comment, but they did not immediately respond.

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Costco often provided coffee grinders for shoppers to use freely. (Joe Yuan/Fox News)

Although the benefit of membership was appreciated by many buyers who used it to quickly grind a two-pound bag. coffee beans Within a minute, a Reddit user who said he used to work in Seattle suggested the free service was canceled due to poor customer usage.

“The mills were broken at least once a week,” wrote a worker who goes by @Storkman1007 on Reddit. “Even with signs not to double up, people were doing it all day and plugging the holes.”

“Also, we had paint brushes that would clean floors and clean cars, and people would drop the brushes and grind them in their coffee,” the employee continued. “Those grinders cost several thousand dollars each.”

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Customers line up at the checkout counters at a very busy Costco store in Queens, New York. (Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

Fellow Redditors also discovered that their local warehouses often had damaged coffee grinders.

“Someone put out chocolate covered coffee beans at my local grocery store,” one user commented on a Reddit thread.

“Double grind, grind nuts, throw brushes,” wrote another Redditor. “Members can’t be trusted to not respect their property, basically.”

One buyer commented on why their local store no longer carries the machines.

“Ours was next to the food court, naturally someone was stuck hot dog In one of them, said the consumer, we no longer have a grinder in stock.

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While grinding beans at home is also an option, one shopper said buying whole beans isn’t worth the effort.

“I won’t buy their whole bean coffee again,” said the user. “It’s a good price, but it takes forever to grind it at home. It’s not worth my time.”

FOX Business’ Pilar Arias contributed to this report.