Day 3981: Costco and Deep Sleep.

  

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Why are customers so obsessed with ?

 

To get through Costco's doors, you need a membership. And there's no easy way around it, especially lately. As of June 2023, Costco says it will have employees stationed at self-checkout lines to check member identification cards so that only those that pay to get in can get in on the savings. Costco membership fees are one of the main ways the warehouse is able to offer low prices compared to other retailers. Those low prices can be found on everything from a 72-pound block of cheese to a casket to a $1.50 hotdog. And it works. In a time of online shopping supremacy and dying retail stores, Costco has consumers hooked. So what other ways do they get us coming back?  why are customers so obsessed? Video here.

The Deep Sleep? Deep Sleep claims to be the deepest overnight accommodation in the world.

• • Deep Sleep claims to be the deepest overnight accommodation in the world
    

  • Found at the foot of a 1,375ft (419m) slate mine in north Wales

  • The mine dates back to the 19th Century

  • The log cabins can only be reached by a two-hour hike through the min

The cabins in an old Victorian mine are claimed to be the deepest overnight accommodation in the world

 

Imagine taking the deepest sleep in the world? That is the offer being made at a disused Victorian slate mine in north Wales. Guests are invited to stay 1,375ft (419m) underground in one of four log cabins - or a special slate-roofed chamber. But while there is a hint of luxury inside the rooms, getting there is not for the faint-hearted.Expect a two-hour hike and scramble, including zip lines and flooded slate chambers to navigate.

 

Now retired, former shipwright Peredur Hughes was responsible for designing and building Deep Sleep

The Cwmorthin quarry and mine used to employ hundreds of men in its heyday, high on a hillside at Tanygrisiau, near Blaenau Ffestiniog in Gwynedd. But like so much of the slate industry in north Wales, it was closed down in the mid-20th Century and left to rot. However, it has found a new lease of life in recent years, as an extreme adventure playground, run by Go Below Underground Adventures. It boasts the world's first deepest zip line and free-fall - and now lays claim to the deepest overnight stay.

   

Some parts of the mine are flooded and need to be carefully navigated by those venturing down to Deep Sleep.

"There's two main reasons why it started," explained Go Below underground guide and operations manager, Mike Morris. "Firstly it was due to popular demand, really. "Lots of the customers we took on our adventurous trips kept saying to us: 'Wouldn't it be great to sleep down here'. "And we thought - yeah - why not? "Secondly, our owner Miles wants to create firsts - like the world's first underground freefall, the longest and deepest underground zip ride. "It was another opportunity to for him to show his creative side and create this space."

 

The entrance to the mine lies hidden in deep quarry workings, protected by steel gates

 For the record, I will not be a customer. Just reading about was difficult. I am not afraid of heights, but I am claustrophobic. I will avoid even above land caves and the Deep Sleep, just sayin'.

 

 

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