Aerial view of shoppers at crowded Costco store in 2004
"Every day is consistent, insofar as it's inconsistent," a Costco front-end manager told BI.
  • Costco warehouses require a lot of different jobs to run smoothly each day.
  • Few workers have more customer-facing responsibilities than front-end managers.
  • Business Insider spoke with a longtime front-end manager about what the day-to-day is like.

Costco has more than 600 warehouses across the US, and each one depends on hundreds of employees performing a range of jobs each day.