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Trastion posted:Don't buy things that will spoil before you will use it all. That is just common sense. If your family will eat a whole bag of apples in a week then it can be a good buy. If you live alone and eat 1 or 2 maybe don't buy the huge bag and get a couple single apples at a regular store. Apples last up to two months in a fridge. They're some of the only produce I buy at Costco. PBUC.
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ArbitraryC posted:the weird part is you buy a big thing and it's still more expensive per pound than just a local place. This is true for a ton of things at costco. There are some items that are a great buy and are cheaper or better quality that make it worth it, but if you're buying all of your groceries from the 'co you'll probably never recoup your $50 a year. Cool, I can buy 5lbs of butter at once for a higher unit cost than 1lb from a regular grocery store? There are some things like meat that are easy to freeze so buying in bulk makes sense, but my Stater Bros will have chicken thighs or breasts for literally half the price as Costco when they go on sale, and its the kind of thing that is easy to only buy when it goes on sale every other week. And at Stater Bros I don't have to wait 10mins to find a parking spot a quarter mile away and then wade through crowds of people and then wait in a checkout line that is 5+ people deep.
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Good Dog posted:This is true for a ton of things at costco. There are some items that are a great buy and are cheaper or better quality that make it worth it, but if you're buying all of your groceries from the 'co you'll probably never recoup your $50 a year. Cool, I can buy 5lbs of butter at once for a higher unit cost than 1lb from a regular grocery store? There are some things like meat that are easy to freeze so buying in bulk makes sense, but my Stater Bros will have chicken thighs or breasts for literally half the price as Costco when they go on sale, and its the kind of thing that is easy to only buy when it goes on sale every other week. You sound dangerously close to heresy, friend...
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Trastion posted:Don't buy things that will spoil before you will use it all. That is just common sense. If your family will eat a whole bag of apples in a week then it can be a good buy. If you live alone and eat 1 or 2 maybe don't buy the huge bag and get a couple single apples at a regular store. It's not even the timing. Fruit at costco spoils within days. I can pick up every nectarine in the tray, bring it home and the very first day there will be mold growing on one of them. Then I throw it away so the mold doesn't spread and I find another one with mold on it. Maybe I throw away half the tray like this. It's not a question of not eating it fast enough, the fruit just spoil too quickly. Maybe Costco needs better buyers for fruit?
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Dr. Tim Whatley posted:You sound dangerously close to heresy, friend... You don't need a membership to buy your hotdog, and in many states you don't need a membership to buy alcohol or pharmacy goods. I've got maybe 10 things I'll buy from costco that are unbeatable price wise, but on just about any dairy/produce its cheaper to get at a regular grocery store.
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Good Dog posted:You don't need a membership to buy your hotdog, and in many states you don't need a membership to buy alcohol or pharmacy goods. I think dairy, particularly cheese, is actually real cheap at costco and their milk lasts forever.
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Good soup! posted:What is CNBC talking about, did they stop selling La Croix? I just bought some not long ago? Updated: "Correction: A previous version of this story inaccurately stated that Costco does not sell the beverage brand LaCroix."
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Im Ready for DEATH posted:It's not even the timing. Fruit at costco spoils within days. I can pick up every nectarine in the tray, bring it home and the very first day there will be mold growing on one of them. Then I throw it away so the mold doesn't spread and I find another one with mold on it. Maybe I throw away half the tray like this. It's not a question of not eating it fast enough, the fruit just spoil too quickly. Maybe Costco needs better buyers for fruit? This is probably the case, but it might also depend on where you live and how far away the fruit comes from. At my Costco during the summer more than a couple times they got berries in that were already going bad before they even had a chance to put them out and sell them. One time they got so many peaches and nectarines in that there was no way they could sell them all before they went bad. They do try to avoid having to throw out all that stuff though. If only one or two strawberries in a package are bad and the rest are good then they'll just take the bad ones out and sell it. If there's more then a few bad ones they'll cull the good ones together in an attempt to not have to throw out an entire pallet of strawberries. However, one could argue that while their intention is good, if one or two in a package is bad then the rest can't be very far behind them.
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The best strawberries I ever ate in my entire life came from Costco, but they’ve never been that good since.
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Still mad at Popcornopolis leaving That replacement stuff is garbage
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ArbitraryC posted:I think dairy, particularly cheese, is actually real cheap at costco and their milk lasts forever. Milk has flavor, what they sell as such does not.
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Oct 16, 2017 22:35
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Just got done with my interview. Unless I get hired by the insurance company in Madison I interviewed with, I'm gonna be working in the Tire Center at Costco.
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Infidel Castro posted:Just got done with my interview. Unless I get hired by the insurance company in Madison I interviewed with, I'm gonna be working in the Tire Center at Costco. Can you get me one of those sweet red hats that the employees wear? I tried to get one today but no one would give me one.
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Oct 16, 2017 23:29
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Half and half at Costco is my poo poo, lasts me almost a month, and we drink coffee like we're working on the glen gary leads
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Meydey posted:I eat a lot of broccoli, but I don't think I have ever finished a bag before it went bad. The stuff gets stinky real quick. Most of the time we don't either, but between my wife and I we'll eat enough to where it is still cheaper to buy the bag even we don't eat it all vs. getting it elsewhere. Especially because it's pre-washed. Granted we just had a Lucky's open up less than 5 minutes from us so I'll probably be getting brocs from there.
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ArbitraryC posted:I think dairy, particularly cheese, is actually real cheap at costco and their milk lasts forever. For whatever reason, the Costcos by me got their milk from Ohio when I first got my membership. I live in loving Wisconsin.
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Oct 17, 2017 02:27
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Costco milk rules in Atlanta. PBUC
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Dr. Tim Whatley posted:Atlanta rules iawtp
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Costco gets some of its glorious low prices by negotiating with suppliers really really well and some of it by doing the logistics really really well. But doing the logistics really really well also means having a properly optimized number of warehouses - and the optimization probably prioritizes the spoilage effects less, because not too much of the things they sell are amenable to spoilage. Not an effect on the butcher because they have onsite butchers and ship whole sides of beef and things, but for produce there is an effect
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Dely Apple posted:Still mad at Popcornopolis leaving when i was at my costco yesterday popcornopolis had a huge display for samples as for costco fruits and veg i get most of my stuff there and am pretty happy with it for the most part, just have to inspect stuff good before you buy it... the 2 main things i have to go elsewhere for are normal cucumbers instead of the english hothouse, and green bell peppers instead of the red and yellow... just roasted potatoes, onions, carrots, brussel sprouts, mushrooms and asparagus, all of it from costco, and it turned out great
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Trader Joe's milk always goes bad before the date. I don't drink enough milk to buy it at Costco, but my son is going to be in prime cow milk drinking age soon. Picked up this fresh squeezed crocodile cheese. Thanks Australia, it's legit. 
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seems like kind of a cop out to not make it from crocodile milk, or at the very least, crocodile fed cows.
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I buy giant gently caress off bags of potatoes, carrots, and onions, and their 1.5lb bag of mixed greens also their clam shells of apples. Even eating just 1 apple a day those puppies are not going bad. Pretty much everything else is iffy and not really a deal anyways. The brocollete is dank as gently caress but kind of expensive Btw the Costco car insurance is the bomb and executive members get extra perks as well
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howdy y'all i have a bay aryan costco trip report re: beer 18:45 i bought a 24 pack of lagunitas brown shugga from costco 18:45 never had this poo poo before, but it's 10% abv 18:46 pretty good 21:13 christ on the cross i am hosed Up off three beers 21:13 need to buy more of this poo poo god bless costco. pbuc
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JewKiller 3000 posted:howdy y'all i have a bay aryan Hmmmmm
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ohh right i forgot, no jokes in gbs (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
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Powershift posted:seems like kind of a cop out to not make it from crocodile milk, or at the very least, crocodile fed cows. we feed crocodiles to our milk crocs and their crocodile milk to our milk cows to get that double crocced in goodness
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JewKiller 3000 posted:ohh right i forgot, no jokes in gbs " " "jokes" " "
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Former DILF posted:(((jokes)))
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JewKiller 3000 posted:ohh right i forgot, no jokes in gbs Look if JewKiller 3000's phone autocorrects 'area' to 'aryan' who am I to judge?
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also gently caress off you racist poo poo
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incredible lol
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All I know is that Dr. Tim's devotion to the church of the holy Co is inspirational to even the less than devout, we can all learn a lesson from a man whose entire live revolves around the Co
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Dely Apple posted:Still mad at Popcornopolis leaving Have you tried the big bag of The Mix from G.H. Cretors? It's friggin awesome and my wife and i fight over it. This is what I get regularly and is my current grocery list this week The Mix by G.H. Cretors Stuffed Salmon Danishes Cooking oil Gouda Artichoke hearts 1/lb PLUS all beef hot dog with soft drink with free refill for $1.49 These are all excellent purchases and you should try them today! Croatoan fucked around with this message at 16:05 on Oct 17, 2017 |
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Teikanmi posted:All I know is that Dr. Tim's devotion to the church of the holy Co is inspirational to even the less than devout, we can all learn a lesson from a man whose entire live revolves around the Co Thank you friend, I view my work as if I was a missionary sharing the Good News! PBUC A new miracle occurred recently! The big box of little round brownies is truly a revelation from on high. Eat it(and share!) in good health.
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Did the Costco crab stuffed salmon on Sunday night, made a smoky onion remoulade to top it, with a mixed green salad topped with crispy fried shallots  Pricey but tasty!
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FogHelmut posted:Picked up this fresh squeezed crocodile cheese. Thanks Australia, it's legit. This stuff is good.
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Dr. Tim Whatley posted:Thank you friend, I view my work as if I was a missionary sharing the Good News! PBUC Those little lemon cakes they have are insanely good too
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