except at a Costco.

At the recent opening of Costco's first mainland China outlet

in Shanghai,

a frenzy of shoppers overwhelmed operations.

This is what went down.

We just had to see for ourselves.

So we flew to the Shanghai store to check it out on day three.

Things were quite different.

Eventually, we got in after a two-hour wait.

Being inside a massive Costco

without much of a crowd feels surreal.

Most of the items here are supersized

and in bulk,

pretty much what you'd get in most Costco outlets in the States.

But the luxury bags and expensive Moutai liquor

that appeared on social media accounts

are conspicuously missing.

The membership in China is 299 yuan a year,

which is $42, cheaper than it is in the States.

It also comes with a pretty lenient return policy.

And if you are up for a $1 hot dog,

they sell it here, too.

By the way,

Costco itself isn't entirely new to China in the first place.

It's been available to Chinese buyers since 2014,

through Alibaba's popular Tmall e-commerce app.

But it seems although you could get to Costco's goods online,

somehow being there in person

was totally worth fighting the crowd for.

Go straight—

No "hi," alright? No "hi."

Our Costco visit...

Our Costco visit was absolutely hectic.

It took an hour and a half to get there,

and we waited in line for two hours to get in.

It was crazy.

Sorry, I was...

And then when we got in, we're stopped by security

because we're not allowed to film in there.

So we got like two minutes of footage on the camera.

So we just took out our phones

and then just went all over the place with it.

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