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So is it a better idea if I do need hit Costco, to go about noon or in the afternoon, and just hope they're letting people in the store?
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I went at 1:00 today to grab a few things. The parking lot was maybe 1/3 of what it usually is, and I had my choice of cashiers. My understanding is that early mornings are a mess, but the rest of the day is generally very slow. I even got a hotdog.
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Mar 22, 2020 06:13
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ArbitraryC posted:I don't really get why there are panic buyers in the first place for really anything. 1. Profiteers hoping to make some money 2. People who really don't stock up on anything ever, some are poor people some are always eating out people. 3. Panic buyers who need to hoard everything. 4. People who have enough for a few weeks, and are (consciously or not) deciding that since things are still open they may as well continue to stay a few weeks ahead because living on your reserves when you don't have to, and may well need to in a few weeks, is risky (more risky than going out? that's harder to say). Not all the scarcity is panic buying, some is just a lot of people buying a little bit more, and the actual panic buyers aren't rational so actual need isn't all that meaningful.
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Mar 22, 2020 07:13
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They really ought to just say they dont offer grocery delivery anymore here EVERYTHING is out of stock I mean literally all foodstuffs in every category save like pepper and a few condiments Woo hoo 
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Mar 22, 2020 07:39
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canyoneer posted:Our poor children are going nuts in isolation. My wife decided we'd buy a playhouse/swingset thing from Costco to set up in the backyard. We had been wanting one anyway, and them being stuck at home for the next month is a good reason to go for it. I will say this pandemic has made me even gladder I don't have kids. Goons had it right all along: forever alone is the way to be.
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Mar 22, 2020 09:16
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https://twitter.com/CollapsePosts/status/1238964767169089541?s=20
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Mar 22, 2020 10:49
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ArbitraryC posted:I don't really get why there are panic buyers in the first place for really anything. My fiancee is from taiwan so she had been following this from the start and we picked up 1 case of toilet paper (we had ~4 rolls left so it was time) and 1 bag of rice (also time to restock) like 2 weeks before poo poo hit the fan and grocery stores started getting mobbed. Here it looks like we might contain it without going that far thankfully but I'm going to do some shopping now.
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Mar 22, 2020 15:08
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Has anyone been to church in Everett, MA lately? How’s the stock? Are there crowds/lines? We’re overdue for a trip.
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Mar 22, 2020 15:28
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I’m here right now. They’re only selling hot dogs and plain pizza. Pizza only by the whole pie, no slices. Most condiments for the dogs missing. Just ketchup and mustard. 
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Mar 22, 2020 17:13
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Cyrano4747 posted:I’m here right now. They’re only selling hot dogs and plain pizza. Pizza only by the whole pie, no slices. they had onions/kraut if you asked for it when I went on friday
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Mar 22, 2020 17:16
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Yeah I asked. All condiments are behind the counter and they were out of everything but ketchup and mustard The guy put them on the dog before wrapping it and handing it to your.
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Mar 22, 2020 17:29
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In other news it was a five min wait outside the store and the inside was loving glorious. Easy to navigate, no traffic jams of retirees around the samples, easiest trip I’ve ever had. No TP or hand sanitizer but everything else was fine. Zero lines for registers. On a Sunday morning no less! Seriously they should go with this model (limiting number of people in the store at any one time) permanently. They can double the price of my membership if they do that.
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Mar 22, 2020 17:31
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Cyrano4747 posted:I’m here right now. They’re only selling hot dogs and plain pizza. Pizza only by the whole pie, no slices. Definitely end of days
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Mar 22, 2020 18:04
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Welcome to Costco I respect you
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Mar 22, 2020 18:11
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mobby_6kl posted:There's no reason to go completely nuts but China locked everyone up indoors for a few months This did not happen anywhere in China. Even the strictest quarantines let people go to the grocery store every few days or had food delivered to apartments for the couple weeks an individual was on complete lock down. Half the country didn't even restrict that much.
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Mar 22, 2020 18:18
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does costco china have the hotdog and pizza combo? I know south korea didn't even localize the food iirc hence why they call ketchup/onions/mustard costco kimchi
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Mar 22, 2020 18:33
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Same as the previous poster. 10 min wait outside, paradise inside. No TP or paper towels. One pack of water per cart, they had tons.
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Mar 22, 2020 18:40
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10 minute wait outside, plenty of water, they did have my cat food in. However they put a limit of one bag per person per day. no toilet paper of course. The funny thing is I distinctly remember two weeks ago when people had three or four Totes of toilet paper and nobody said boo. Costco's a little late on limiting anything at this point.
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Mar 22, 2020 19:29
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The cat's out of the bag. The toilet paper is already off the roll
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Mar 22, 2020 19:31
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you gotta get there before opening for tp, even just 30 mins worked for me on friday ymmv
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Mar 22, 2020 19:32
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Alan Smithee posted:does costco china have the hotdog and pizza combo? I know south korea didn't even localize the food iirc hence why they call ketchup/onions/mustard costco kimchi China doesn't have Costco as far as I'm aware. There was one in Hong Kong and a reseller to buy Costco stuff on Taobao when I lived there. We did have something called Metro, which is basically German Costco. You're right Costco food in Korea is the same as the US, the only concession to local tastes is the pump bottle of corn syrup to put on your pizza/hot dogs. E: Looks like they just opened the first Costco in Shanghai last fall. I now remember seeing these videos of people fighting over things at it, forgot that was Costco. lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UfO4gpML4g Grand Fromage fucked around with this message at 19:47 on Mar 22, 2020 |
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Mar 22, 2020 19:45
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Grand Fromage posted:China doesn't have Costco as far as I'm aware. There was one in Hong Kong and a reseller to buy Costco stuff on Taobao when I lived there. We did have something called Metro, which is basically German Costco. You're right Costco food in Korea is the same as the US, the only concession to local tastes is the pump bottle of corn syrup to put on your pizza/hot dogs. I only watched it once but the fighting over chickens was seared into my brain
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Mar 22, 2020 19:49
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Grand Fromage posted:pump bottle of corn syrup to put on your pizza/hot dogs. W H A T
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Mar 22, 2020 20:04
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seance snacks posted:W H A T
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Mar 22, 2020 20:05
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seance snacks posted:W H A T Modern Korea makes all food sweet whenever possible. Korean pizzas are sweet, Korean garlic bread is encased in a layer of honey and syrup, corn dogs rolled in sugar, potato chips are sugar-coated, on and on. There's usually a whole aisle section in a Korean grocery store for the rice/corn syrups. Getting non-sweet food in Korea can be a real challenge. Weirdly, diabetes is becoming a major problem there.
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Mar 22, 2020 20:17
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I love Korean fried chicken but yeah they do a lot of really sweet coatings for it. The spicy ones rule though. Moderate spice because I'm a wuss
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Mar 22, 2020 20:27
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priznat posted:I love Korean fried chicken but yeah they do a lot of really sweet coatings for it. The spicy ones rule though. Moderate spice because I'm a wuss Yeah, I usually get the non glazed ones, so either a spicy or the cheese flavors
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Mar 22, 2020 20:44
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The Korean love of cheese also rules
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Mar 22, 2020 20:53
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priznat posted:The Korean love of cheese also rules Less when you realize that "cheese" in Korea means Kraft singles, but somehow worse. Or "mozzarella" which has no flavor whatsoever.
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Mar 22, 2020 21:00
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I picked up the big bag of mozzarella bites today from Costco, they have plenty of flavor.
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Mar 22, 2020 21:21
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Grand Fromage posted:Modern Korea makes all food sweet whenever possible. Korean pizzas are sweet, Korean garlic bread is encased in a layer of honey and syrup, corn dogs rolled in sugar, potato chips are sugar-coated, on and on. There's usually a whole aisle section in a Korean grocery store for the rice/corn syrups. Getting non-sweet food in Korea can be a real challenge. That's all really gross. Cartoon Man posted:I picked up the big bag of mozzarella bites today from Costco, they have plenty of flavor. I disagree. They taste like almost nothing to me. The other goon had a good idea of cooking with them though.
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Mar 22, 2020 21:30
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Pennywise the Frown posted:That's all really gross. I haven't had the other stuff, but Korean pizza is pretty good. At least the ones I've had here in California are (Love Letter in socal)
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Mar 22, 2020 21:31
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Grand Fromage posted:Less when you realize that "cheese" in Korea means Kraft singles, but somehow worse. Or "mozzarella" which has no flavor whatsoever. I didn’t even realize cheese in Korean food was a thing until I went to this hot plate place that had a trough for melting cheese for dippin and it was goddamn delicious. It was a cheddar/mozza blend of shredded cheese in it and was good. Also corn for some reason? Anyway dammit now I want that but it is closed for dine in 
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Pennywise the Frown posted:That's all really gross. Yeah. Korean snacks are a minefield of "will this be sweet?" and Korean pizza is a war crime. Fortunately you don't have to eat any of that stuff and after a year or two living in Korea you start getting an instinct about what looks like a trap food. priznat posted:I didn’t even realize cheese in Korean food was a thing until I went to this hot plate place that had a trough for melting cheese for dippin and it was goddamn delicious. It was a cheddar/mozza blend of shredded cheese in it and was good. Also corn for some reason? Anyway dammit now I want that but it is closed for dine in Everything has to have corn in it. Are you in Korea? Korean food outside Korea tends to not be sweet in the same way. The sugar in everything trend is recent-ish (last couple decades) and a lot of Korean restaurants are run by immigrants who left before that became a thing. I've found Korean restaurants in the US serve food nowhere near as sugary as they eat in Korea.
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Mar 22, 2020 21:40
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I made sure to thank and praise the Costco people I encountered and spoke with, most of them seemed to be going on very little sleep.
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Mar 22, 2020 21:57
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Any luck finding hand soap at Costco? I’m actually close to running out but no one has any, and my Friday trip to the ‘co in Chicago was somewhat traumatic (and I didn’t think to look for soap then).
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Mar 23, 2020 01:58
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Cartoon Man posted:I made sure to thank and praise the Costco people I encountered and spoke with, most of them seemed to be going on very little sleep. That's not good, sleep deprivation does extremely bad things to your immune system very fast. I'm disappointed that they aren't putting up plexiglass shields at the check-outs like other grocers are here, or doing temperature-checking at the entrance. Lazyhound fucked around with this message at 03:19 on Mar 23, 2020 |
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Mar 23, 2020 03:14
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Went over to my Costco yesterday to grab normal stuff. No crowds, TP was still on the floor (2pm), pretty normal. Limited food court menu (Dogs and Slices/full pies), some items were 1/customer.
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EVG posted:Any luck finding hand soap at Costco? I’m actually close to running out but no one has any, and my Friday trip to the ‘co in Chicago was somewhat traumatic (and I didn’t think to look for soap then). Mine has a 2 pack of big Softsoap jugs, limit 1. On sale for $6. PBUC
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EVG posted:and my Friday trip to the ‘co in Chicago was somewhat traumatic do tell
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