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numberoneposter posted:ive only seen our lot totally full once Well most of us are smart enough to know when to avoid Costco. If they don't, I'd hesitate to call them one of us.
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Zero VGS posted:gently caress you, I tried these and they're basically just flavored with citric acid and lighter fluid. It wasn't just me, everyone who tried some was taken aback. I like other BBQ or Hot flavored pork rinds just fine. I was expecting these to at least taste like Takis but they were beyond caustic. Yeah, there’s some of that. I think it’s the concentrated tajin? By the end I kind of liked it, got some sort of pork rind Stockholm syndrome going on I guess.
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the parking lot at my costco is full to bursting at literally all times except like 10 minutes before closing does anyone else’s costco have a huge Muslim community? I’m always curious why they seem to congregate there compared to anywhere else where I live.
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May 13, 2023 07:30
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i dont know where else you can get a pork free hotdog (and soda with free refill) for a dollar fifty.
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pencilhands posted:the parking lot at my costco is full to bursting at literally all times except like 10 minutes before closing Not my Costco, and before I say this, this is no indication of anything, but back when I had a Sam's club membership, I saw quite a few there. The reason being, they were shop owners and Sam's Club is way better for small shop owners than Costco. The items you can buy there are easier for resale and there are more of them. And you can buy cigarettes. When i'd go pick up my stores orders on Tuesdays, I'd see a large presence. Usually one of the big carts full of stuff and they were buying $2000+ in cigarettes, easy.
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ShowTime posted:Not my Costco, and before I say this, this is no indication of anything, but back when I had a Sam's club membership, I saw quite a few there. The reason being, they were shop owners and Sam's Club is way better for small shop owners than Costco. The items you can buy there are easier for resale and there are more of them. And you can buy cigarettes. Man that’s loving sick. Sometimes I think about opening a convenience store or something I loving hate working for people but I bet it carries a lot of its own annoyances. I’m just so sick of dealing with the rat race.
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pencilhands posted:the parking lot at my costco is full to bursting at literally all times except like 10 minutes before closing does your costco sell entire frozen lamb and goat? 
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May 13, 2023 10:19
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i feel like i saw them at a business center
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May 13, 2023 10:24
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Hoooly poo poo this just unlocked a core memory I had totally forgotten. In middle school I had a strong crush on one particular girl at school. We went to a pretty small school on the outskirts of the bay area that only had a few hundred people per class. I was in the Maui Costco warehouse when I saw this exact girl- I think at that point we were both in Junior High. That was wild. Man idk how I forgot about that. Costco provides.
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May 13, 2023 10:53
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The tub of white queso is incredibly disappointing. Doesn’t compare to the Olé at my grocery store. 
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May 13, 2023 11:37
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I got my iPad yesterday and I’m super happy with it because there’s a 90 day return policy no questions asked, Costco fuckin rules
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bagmonkey posted:I got my iPad yesterday and I’m super happy with it because there’s a 90 day return policy no questions asked, Costco fuckin rules Fruit ninja much?
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May 13, 2023 12:57
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After like, 5 years of trying Costco finally got a permit to build a store here in Albany. They're putting it right next to the gigantic mall so traffic will definitely be very cool and good lol
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halokiller posted:does your costco sell entire frozen lamb and goat? When we took a pilgrimage out of state to the gigantic Costco combined business center in Salt Lake City we snapped a bunch of pictures of the great selection of halal foods for our Muslim neighbor at home. She was very impressed and simultaneously annoyed that our local Costco didn't carry anything like that. I only flew with a carry-on on that trip so the logistics of bringing home a whole refrigerated goat didn't work out.
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May 13, 2023 17:10
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I love the business center because of that convenience store packaging. I like to pretend my kitchen is a store that sells only the snacks I like
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May 13, 2023 18:31
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Went to Costco for essentials. Got the chicken alfredo pasta take-n-bake as well. Getting fat tonite.
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pencilhands posted:
Some, but my favorite religious sightings at Costco are the fundamentalist polygamist mormons that bring in 6 or 7 women garbed in frontier dresses and 1800s schoolteacher hairdos.
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Chinatown posted:Went to Costco for essentials. Got the chicken alfredo pasta take-n-bake as well. Getting fat tonite. It needs some more flavor, so add spinach and garlic or pepper or something, but it's a good dollars/quantity ratio.
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binge crotching posted:It needs some more flavor, so add spinach and garlic or pepper or something, but it's a good dollars/quantity ratio. Some of the better parm a few aisles over also won't go amiss.
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binge crotching posted:It needs some more flavor, so add spinach and garlic or pepper or something, but it's a good dollars/quantity ratio. thinking to garlic and red peppah flakes
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Yo the chinese pork Costco carries is so good, if you cook Chinese food. You should, it is very good and healthy! Even if you don't do chinese food, it's amazing for almost any scenario. It's never been a better time to learn how to cook, and Costco is really the backbone of allowing that in modern times as long as you're careful about not being wasteful. Items that own to buy at Costco for home cooking include: 1) Rotisserie Chickens to be used in other dishes, and also to make chicken stock. Probably the best deal in food, period, anywhere. 2) Staples like heads of garlic, onions of various types (we keep red, yellow, white and sweet onions on hand in the garage where they keep forever). This also enables the creation of french onion soup at any time, which is an enormous plus. 3) Certain raw and processed meats - chicken thighs, chinese pork, high grade shrimp (peep the ones in the big white boxes they are insane) but a key point here is Costco has two major kinds of sales. They have the coupon book sale which is ok, but it's not often that the coupon book has sales on staple food items. It's more like... processed stuff, which is fine but not if you're trying to eat well and also somewhat cheaply. What you're actually looking for is the secondary coupons that come out in between the big books. These are often more modest, which makes people less interested, but this is what you really want because they include $1-2 discounts on various Costco brand staple foods that are already a good deal. Then on top of that, they tend to rotate "take $4 a package of X protein". Those own because if you snipe the smallest packages you can save even more, and this is where a chest freezer comes in. Idk how people survive without a chest freezer these days, but freezing the rotating Costco proteins in bulk is really a main cornerstone of doing staples at Costco. 4) Veggies that can be used quickly and/or keep well, and are a great price vs. the supermarket, see: Shiitakes, cotton candy grapes, heads of romaine lettuce, baby cucumbers, sugar snap peas, brocolli, etc. For example my wife is in healthcare and I'm a wfh tech guy, so I tend to manage the food while she is in charge of hitting the store on the way home if I need anything. One thing I always keep on hand for emergencies is frozen pizza, but we make our own. Making your own frozen pizza/sauce means you're controlling the health and quality of the ingredients, and is completely delicious when re-heated using the "steam in a pan with the lid on then crisp the bottom" method. I use ingredients entirely from Costco and my cost basis ends up being insanely low. It's insane how cheap pizza is to make and how easy it ultimately is to do. I recommend a pizza steel. Anyways this post is getting out of hand but I don't think people talk enough about exactly how to eat healthy and cheaply from Costco. I argue this is one of the only consistently repeatable ways to eat super high quality food on the cheap. Honestly if you're not actively working on your cooking skills right now you are going to get eaten alive. Processed food has never been shittier and never been more expensive. We all have to take control of our food, now, not later imo. I live alone with my wife, and since we don't want kids we have literally spent 15 years perfecting how to buy things from Costco for 2 people and not wasting much. It was useful then but it's loving essential now, and it's the only thing keeping our food bills reasonable without downgrading the quality of our food intake in 2023. AMA on this useful skill Taima fucked around with this message at 11:56 on May 14, 2023 |
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Taima posted:Yo the chinese pork Costco carries is so good, if you cook Chinese food.
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  It even comes with spicy chinese mustard and sesame seeds so even just heating it up and eating slices of it OWNS Taima fucked around with this message at 12:29 on May 14, 2023 |
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gonna need them after pics too
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 No specific pic but I can guarantee you it looks a lot like this other similar dish I did recently:   But Costco is dope for a lot of east asian stuff: Bibimbap  Costco is amazing for fresh sushi grade tuna and salmon  Costco ingredients made all of this except for the basil:  Costco is the best resource for high quality ingredients out there (as of this writing at least). It's loving absurd how much food is being gouged right now. It should be illegal. There should be a maximum margin that you can make on food and you are penalized the rest. Btw I believe this is how Costco operates; they take a baseline margin for the stuff they sell. So unless that changed (SHAREHOLDERS!!!!) Costco will in theory continue to be the best deal for high quality base ingredients. That being said Costco does often specialize in organic food, and if you don't care about that, obviously the asian market in your locale will be a great bet for vegetables and other staples. Costco is still probably better deal for protein though on a quality basis. I love how Choice grade is where Costco starts on their meat totem pole and it just goes up from there. I have noticed though that red meat is coming down pretty fast at the supermarket; Fred Meyer just ran buy 1 get 1 free tri tips which was like $5.55 a pound or so- meat is a notch or two below Costco but that's tough to beat. It's been tough world wide, I recently had a conversation with a French dude and he was saying how the bread culture of France is starting to die because high quality loaves and other baked goods are becoming too expensive to buy in quantity. The high quality stuff you associate with the region is becoming more of a special occasion thing. Which made me really sad. If you can't get a decent price quality loaf in France then we're all hosed. It feels really obvious to me that unless something drastically changes, the entire food structure of the world is changing for the worse. The only way I can think of to keep eating healthy food is to cook it yourself. Taima fucked around with this message at 12:27 on May 14, 2023 |
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The discussion about cooking just reminded me of the other thing that Costco hasn't had the last two times I've been: flour. Seriously what the gently caress.
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Normally we don't allow marketers to advertise on SA but since it's Costco I'll make an exception
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yoloer420 posted:The discussion about cooking just reminded me of the other thing that Costco hasn't had the last two times I've been: flour. did you try thee business center
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Alan Smithee posted:did you try thee business center That doesn't seem to be a thing in my area.  I'm in Western Australia if you want to figure it out and correct me.
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where do you go to buy a pallet of vegemite
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Alan Smithee posted:did you try thee business center There's only 23 Costco business centers in the US and 10 of them are in California, which is bullshit. I live in a metro area of 4.5 million people and the closest one is 4 states away in New Jersey.
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Whooping Crabs posted:There's only 23 Costco business centers in the US and 10 of them are in California, which is bullshit. I live in a metro area of 4.5 million people and the closest one is 4 states away in New Jersey. finally the private sector has fixed the electoral college
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yoloer420 posted:That doesn't seem to be a thing in my area. chinese market ala ranch 99?
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Don’t ever tell me to “peep” things.
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bird with big dick posted:Don’t ever tell me to “peep” things. peep deez
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yoloer420 posted:The discussion about cooking just reminded me of the other thing that Costco hasn't had the last two times I've been: flour. Specifically, King Arthur brand flour. Last year my home-baker spouse was ecstatic when she found Costco carried that brand, as it's one of the best for baked goods. When it ran out recently, we went back to get more and found its been replaced by some garbage brand of flour 
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pentyne posted:Costco needs to borrow a page from Aldi and using those coin locks for carts, because for some reason people will walk across the entire parking lot in the middle of a 95F day with 100% humidity with their empty cart just to get that 25 cents back. Wtf. Fail levels off the chain here
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Taima posted:
We eat a ton of that. Most of the time just sliced up and dipped in the mustard, but also cubed and mixed in with yakisoba.
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halokiller posted:does your costco sell entire frozen lamb and goat? The business center costco I go to always has people filling up vans with bags of chips n crap Obviously for reselling, gotta be mostly convenience stores I figure. When I'm there I look for .97s. Hope Costco is hurting Cysco a little, their monopoly is extreme! Rare, but insane deals if you find them. Once found giant Greek yogurts for 1.97 Also, my regular Costco parking lot is never not resembling early Covid insanity.
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iroc.dis posted:Specifically, King Arthur brand flour. Last year my home-baker spouse was ecstatic when she found Costco carried that brand, as it's one of the best for baked goods. When it ran out recently, we went back to get more and found its been replaced by some garbage brand of flour It must just be your locations, because I recently bought a giant KA bag of AP flour at mine in Chicago.
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