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Teabag Dome Scandal posted:I think all of the Winix they sell have two years of filters? oh great! fischtick posted:Yeah, my Winix came with 2 HEPA filters (to change annually) and a ton of carbon pre-filters (to change every couple months). I popped a third HEPA into it this week (happy 3 years of COVID lockdown!). Sucks that Costco doesn't sell 'em, but you can get all sorts of suspect deals on them at Amazon and maybe even Ali. they do sell them on the website!  https://www.costco.com/winix-replacement-filter-s-for-c545-air-purifier.product.100520768.html Paul MaudDib fucked around with this message at 01:46 on Mar 15, 2023 |
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Protip for the carbon filters - use a vacuum upholstery attachment to get the dirt and hair out instead of washing them. Makes them hold their shape better and you don't have to wait on them to dry
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https://twitter.com/snopes/status/1635821475755171841An exchange between Costco founder Jim Sinegal and Costco CEO Craig Jelinek posted:“I came to (Jim Sinegal) once and I said, ‘Jim, we can’t sell this hot dog for a buck fifty. We are losing our rear ends.’ And he said, ‘If you raise the effing hot dog, I will kill you. Figure it out.’ That’s all I really needed. By the way, if you raised (the price) to $1.75, it would not be that big of a deal. People would still buy (it). But it’s the mindset that when you think of Costco, you think of the $1.50 hot dog (and soda). Maybe not so much of a loss leader as we thought?  edit: this exchange was 2018 btw
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Did anyone really think they made a loss selling a freakin’ hot dog?
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Vegetable posted:Did anyone really think they made a loss selling a freakin’ hot dog? Yeah. It's been brought up here many many times as a loss leader. I don't know how all of that works but I've seen it here a whole lot.
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Well it reads like it was probably breaking even till they built their own plant.
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Also selling soda from a fountain is essentially free money as I understand it.
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MarcusSA posted:Well it reads like it was probably breaking even till they built their own plant. Since they had the same price ($1.50) since 1985, I'd imagine the prices of absolutely everything have increased exponentially. Regardless if they make their own hot dogs, they are decent quality and a huge one costs less than an 8 pack of S-BAR or whatever that extremely questionable poo poo is. Still hard to imagine breaking even on that. They literally created 2 manufacturing plants just for their hot dogs. I wonder what the shareholders thought of that. MarcusSA posted:Well it reads like it was probably breaking even till they built their own plant. He said they are getting a "fair" return now. After building the plants.
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Yeah fair could easily mean we are losing just a little money but it’s worth it to get people in here, as opposed to we are constantly losing our shirts on this deal.
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How much can a tube of cow anuses really cost anyway?
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Vintersorg posted:The one I got is pretty good! Did mapping and the bin was full. That’s with 2 cats! Plus it’s nice it can get under our tv stand and bed where we normally can’t access easily. The shock I get everytime I empty the bin like where the hell is all this fur and dirt coming from. And it's the cats and us. The rooms we keep the cats out of and basically just keep shut are clean as a whistle.
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Vegetable posted:Did anyone really think they made a loss selling a freakin’ hot dog? They sell the bulk packages for something like $16/14 according to the Business Center website and they presumably make some profit on that. The bun, soda and condiments could easily be under $0.50 at scale, so maybe you're talking $1 per dog straight food cost. The labor is where they probably start losing money. If you assume you need ~4 employees to run the food court and they cost you $25/hour (wages + benefits + etc.) your labor is $100/hour. You'd have to sell 200 dogs an hour, every hour, just to break even, which they're not doing. Obviously there's other food there as well, likely with a a little more room for profit, but I imagine the whole food court is a loss-leader most of the time. I think there's a reason the food's they try out occasionally are typically much more expensive. One of my local stores has started selling a roast beef sandwich that costs $10.
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BeastOfExmoor posted:One of my local stores has started selling a roast beef sandwich that costs $10. gently caress that I can get 4 hotdog combos for that and have money leftover. That’s like 2 dogs and two slices.
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its more likely the dog gets hit with shrinkflation than having the price raised
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Nohearum posted:How much can a tube of cow anuses really cost anyway? I don't know your mom never emailed me back
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Soul Dentist, desperately in need of cow anus tubes
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StormDrain posted:The shock I get everytime I empty the bin like where the hell is all this fur and dirt coming from. And it's the cats and us. The rooms we keep the cats out of and basically just keep shut are clean as a whistle. And even myself now too since growing my hair out, lol. I have pretty curly hair so it doesn't drop out as smoothly as someone with straight long hair. So every now and then ill find some clumps that got stuck (we lose around 50-100 strands a day). Also ditto on our closed room (right now storage until we find a need for it) - it's pretty immaculate. We're gonna send the robot in there maybe once a month to do it's job. Finished up last night since we ran it right out the box and it had to charge when it needed to do the main bedroom and my computer room in the north there:  Overall loved it - it got hung up on some wires under our bed (have 2 x TwinXL tempurpedic with power base) that we need to get moved off the floor. It's a cat hair haven and we're happy to get it all out now with ease.
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Nohearum posted:How much can a tube of cow anuses really cost anyway? A hole lot.
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halokiller posted:its more likely the dog gets hit with shrinkflation than having the price raised How does that work when the sign says 1/4 lb All Beef Hot Dog plus 20oz Drink (with refill)? 
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Tiny Timbs posted:My J7+ does a ton better than my i3 at dealing with the wooden main floor with two hairy dogs, and its obstacle avoiding features are pretty solid. No more pushing dog toys into weird areas. We have a J7 and it does a great job on our hardwood main level which, while we don't have pets, is essentially always covered in a fine dust of crumbs from our two toddlers. We also have a Bravva Jet m6 robomop for the same area to take care of the accompanying fine sheen of spilled milk/juice/etc that gets everywhere as well. While it's not perfect, it absolutely does the job and leaves the floor nice and shiny. Occasionally we'll have to manually mop the most high-traffic and heavy use areas, but that's like once every other month since we run the mop every other day or so. Totally worth it, in my opinion, but childless or petless people might disagree.
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They probably also had some intern crunch the immense amount of data and only saw that 0.000001% of their customers ever bought a hotdog/drink combo and only a hotdog/combo on that visit or whatever.
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I really wish they'd swap back to their OG granola bar manufacturer. The current ones are only okay. Still a really loving good deal and I eat many per week
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I’m now completely convinced that the only reason they haven’t implemented my perfect “Let me order a hot dog at checkout” idea is that they ran the numbers and found that they would lose money.
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Sudden Loud Noise posted:I’m now completely convinced that the only reason they haven’t implemented my perfect “Let me order a hot dog at checkout” idea is that they ran the numbers and found that they would lose money. Maybe I'm going crazy, but you used to be able to order food at checkout, then take your receipt over to the food court and they would give you your food. There's no option at self checkout now, and the food court these days is so much busier than before they probably stopped it, but I swear we used to be able to do this.
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For some reason they were selling canned tuna at the checkout the other day
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skipdogg posted:Maybe I'm going crazy, but you used to be able to order food at checkout, then take your receipt over to the food court and they would give you your food. There's no option at self checkout now, and the food court these days is so much busier than before they probably stopped it, but I swear we used to be able to do this. this was 100% true for pizza and was a pro level move pre-covid when I was stopping at Costco on the drive home
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I only ever ordered my food court items at the register and was appalled when they got rid of the option to do so, after the self-serve kiosks were installed. I mean if you know what you want (and you should, as the "menu" isn't exactly expansive) it only takes two seconds to place an order but then I have to get out my credit card again when previously I only had to do so once. Efficiency, ya know?
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Fitzy Fitz posted:For some reason they were selling canned tuna at the checkout the other day Well, that sounds ominous.
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The Midniter posted:I only ever ordered my food court items at the register and was appalled when they got rid of the option to do so, after the self-serve kiosks were installed. Eat before you shop, problem solved
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Well, that sounds ominous. I was there today and they were still doing it
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Paul MaudDib posted:oh great! It's  off and only $35 (shipped) for one filter. That's $25 cheaper than ordering from Winix! Seems reasonable.I bought a pair of what they claim are "True HEPA" filters off Amazon for $22, shipped. I can't vouch for their effectiveness at taking pollens out of the air or anything, but the lights change color when we cook and each filter layer -- screen, charcoal, HEPA -- gets plenty dirty over time.
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Fitzy Fitz posted:I was there today and they were still doing it WHAT ARE THEY NOT TELLING US? 
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They can sell tuna like that but not chopped onions. Seems - fishy.
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ShowTime posted:They can sell tuna like that but not chopped onions. Seems - fishy. And they give you a little plastic cup of onions in Iceland when you order the dog... something stinks for sure.
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What kind of tuna? I got some there and it was suspiciously cheap. I've been making giant sandwiches to prank my friends.
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Sam's club has plastic cups of mustard and onions and other condiments... Chili flakes and parmesan. I saw them when I was trying their food court. I had Pizza instead of a hotdog. It was not bad. Wendigee fucked around with this message at 03:29 on Mar 16, 2023 |
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Wendigee posted:Sam's club has plastic cups of mustard and onions and other condiments... Chili flakes and parmesan. Just say a friend saw them next them. Less incriminating. But you also shouldn't be friends with Sam's club people, so still incriminating.
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A Pack of Kobolds posted:How does that work when the sign says 1/4 lb All Beef Hot Dog plus 20oz Drink (with refill)? They shrink the condiments and the bun.
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astral posted:They shrink the condiments and the bun. The bun is one of the least important ingredients in the hot dog. It's a vessel to get the dog into your gaping maw without getting your hands dirty. I don't know if they changed it. It's always been incredibly small for the amount of meat tube you get. I'm very upset about the condiments though.
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