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ExcessBLarg! posted:What's the difference between regular rolled oats and gluten-free rolled oats, given that oats don't contain gluten? A lot of it is certifying no cross contamination at any point in the supply chain, yeah. Not just the factory.
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I've given up trying to figure out when peak Samples time is. I really thought it would be Sunday, but there was very little.
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there is absolutely nothing in costco worth sampling instead of just buying and the clusterfuck situation around the sample carts makes shopping actively worse. sample time is a terrible time
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Apr 28, 2024 23:41
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Eating all the available samples is like a free full meal if you're skinny / a kid / on wegovy.
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ExcessBLarg! posted:What's the difference between regular rolled oats and gluten-free rolled oats, given that oats don't contain gluten? Oats are actually highly susceptible to gluten contamination while in the fields. One of the more difficult foods for people with celiac.
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TrashMammal posted:there is absolutely nothing in costco worth sampling instead of just buying and the clusterfuck situation around the sample carts makes shopping actively worse. sample time is a terrible time After several disgusting buys, my new policy is only to buy stuff I've sampled.
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Apr 29, 2024 00:01
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Beachcomber posted:After several disgusting buys, my new policy is only to buy stuff I've sampled. the coward’s return
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Apr 29, 2024 00:03
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buying the fancy humane eggs at costco 
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Dog Faced JoJo posted:Why is it 100% vegetarian fed, so the feeders don't tell it how delicious it's going to become?  "Welp, can't sell this one anymore"
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TrashMammal posted:there is absolutely nothing in costco worth sampling instead of just buying and the clusterfuck situation around the sample carts makes shopping actively worse. sample time is a terrible time I actively avoid sample carts and days because it attracts the most obnoxious humans on earth. lemme just block the whole loving aisle. I dont even know how they do it. the aisles are like 3 carts wide at least and sometimes one person will manage to block the whole thing and then be a dick when you're like "hey excuse me can I get by" like how dare I disrupt their bliss of eating a bite of chip
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Apr 29, 2024 00:36
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Anonymous Robot posted:Oats are actually highly susceptible to gluten contamination while in the fields. One of the more difficult foods for people with celiac. I was told that its not that oats have gluten, they have their own very similar protein that ~10% of coeliacs will react to in the same way as the wheat/barley/etc ones. Which you can also be asymptomatically reacting to so you have to go through the whole 6 week exposure plus endoscopy to check for damage. Probably after being gluten free enough to have an endoscopy confirm you are healing from the gluten damage.
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silicone thrills posted:I actively avoid sample carts and days because it attracts the most obnoxious humans on earth. lemme just block the whole loving aisle. I dont even know how they do it. the aisles are like 3 carts wide at least and sometimes one person will manage to block the whole thing and then be a dick when you're like "hey excuse me can I get by" like how dare I disrupt their bliss of eating a bite of chip 
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silicone thrills posted:eating a bite of chip Any member born after 1983 can't shop, all they know is be blocking aisles, eat free chip, and lie
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Zero VGS posted:Any member born after 1983 can't shop, all they know is be blocking aisles, eat free chip, and lie you mean before? because its the loving olds.
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Zero VGS posted:Any member born after 1983 can't shop, all they know is be blocking aisles, eat free chip, and lie Huh? silicone thrills posted:you mean before? because its the loving olds. Yeah it's definitely this.
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I was just riffing on the "eat hot chip" meme jeez you're gonna make me explain everything?
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riff better next time
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The only time samples came in use for me was learning that the shamrock shaped ravioli I had already put in my cart were really gross and it was the easiest decision to put them back. I miss shopping during covid
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Apr 29, 2024 01:29
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I was at Costco today and yet again they haven't brought the beer chips back. 0/10.
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Apr 29, 2024 04:28
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im going to costco tomorrow (technically today as it is after midnight)
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Apr 29, 2024 05:12
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made out like a bandit at the business center. pretty sure i’m gonna be making GBS threads solid cinnamon rolls by the end of the week
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Apr 29, 2024 05:21
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A blog I read (in 2024!) had a story about a Costco trip today: https://www.waiterrant.net/2024/04/free-samples-are-never-free/
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Apr 29, 2024 16:39
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It's like they wrote a normal, believable story but in the most stdh.txt way
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Waiterrant is still going? I was thinking about that blog just this weekend. I remembered him being kinda insufferable, and it looks like I was right.
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Jorath posted:A blog I read (in 2024!) had a story about a Costco trip today: This is what suburbia does to people. You look up one day and you're writing headcanon fanfic to nobody about how you totally owned someone and saved the day at a costco sample booth It's so slow that you don't know it happened until you realize at some point that the best part of your week was firing up the ride on mower or something. Bone chilling poo poo.
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Big Mac posted:Waiterrant is still going? I was thinking about that blog just this weekend. I remembered him being kinda insufferable, and it looks like I was right. He was very quiet for years, but his father dying last month has caused him to ramp up the posting. His Costco observations are pretty accurate; the sample carts can turn into the scene of a fresh kill on the Serengeti, especially for sweets like chocolate.
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if you don’t actually buy the product you aren’t doing poo poo for the sample people. jerking yourself off later while you think about how swell you were for not being mean is useless to them (and creepy)
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thathonkey posted:im going to costco tomorrow (technically today as it is after midnight) i went to costco. they had the new bagged rotisserie chicken. makes it a lot easier to grab 2, which is exactly what i needed to do for meals this week. god i loving love costco
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TrashMammal posted:if you don’t actually buy the product you aren’t doing poo poo for the sample people. jerking yourself off later while you think about how swell you were for not being mean is useless to them (and creepy) I can 100% assure you that the associates offering samples don't give a poo poo if you buy the product or not. Their jobs are not in jeopardy if the don't convert a certain percentage of samples into sales. They're too busy trying to keep the samples flowing and hoping that the old lady who is currently talking their ear off about how busy it is and how they remember when the store used to carry their favorite food in the entire world but discontinued it in 1993 and asking why they don't bring it back, will move the gently caress out of the way and go bother someone else.
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Man, the people doing samples at my Costco ARE the old ladies. I don't think they have an opinion on whatever turmeric juice they're pouring that day.
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Gherkin Jerkin posted:I can 100% assure you that the associates offering samples don't give a poo poo if you buy the product or not. Their jobs are not in jeopardy if the don't convert a certain percentage of samples into sales. 100% those people don’t care about getting their bonus at all 
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My daughter's boyfriend recently started as a 'co sample hander-outer. His reward the other day for selling out all his items was "you can go home now" and he lost 3 hours of work that day. Anyway they're only scheduling him like one day a week so he's back on the job hunt.
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wow, guess sample time sucks even more than i thought
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The sample people aren't Costco employees, I thought everyone knew this.
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TrashMammal posted:100% those people don’t care about getting their bonus at all They don't get bonuses. Their boss does.
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KakerMix posted:The sample people aren't Costco employees, I thought everyone knew this. Yeah, he was stoked at first thinking he was getting hired by Costco, chance to advance etc, but no it's some other company that handles the sample people.
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‘Ladas made with Costco rotisserie and Costco tortillas 
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thathonkey posted:i went to costco. they had the new bagged rotisserie chicken. makes it a lot easier to grab 2, which is exactly what i needed to do for meals this week. god i loving love costco Wait, what’s this about bagged rotisserie chicken? I haven’t seen this at my Costco yet.
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digital penitence posted:Wait, what’s this about bagged rotisserie chicken? I haven’t seen this at my Costco yet. You won't until they use up the bajillion clamshell packages first, the goons inform me
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