I have to think of a password, so I’ll probably just use the same password I use everywhere else. Completely defeating the purpose of the password. If the system has rules around what a password _should_ be, I’m playing a game of ‘Guess an Acceptable Password’.
I have to enter it twice, proving to the system I can, and then a third time someplace where I can find it the next time I visit the site.

Both of these points take time from the person’s day. By emailing an auto-generated password, I have the password in a place I can retrieve it when I need it (or easily move it to my Keychain manager) and it’s a unique string acceptable to the system’s password requirements. Win-Win.

Hmmm… For some reason I didn’t even know we had Costco in Minnesota. I stopped over at costco.com to find a location, since I figured, well, there must be a Costco up here after all.

Entered my zip code and hit return.

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