all-purpose COSTCO thread (show your membership card and receipt at the door)

they sell this spinach & cheese ravioli that's really delicious. i just had some. it's criminal how small the "serving size" is.

these guys make it and package it special for costco: http://www.montereygourmetfoods.com/index.cfm/mpc_products_ravioli.htm

is costco a regional thing? i've never seen one in the upper midwest and i'm only aware of them via patton oswalt.

i go to costco every other week and it is always the low point of that week

I dread going on the weekends, but have found if I get to mine within an hour of them opening on Sunday, the crowds aren't too bad and the "samplers" aren't set up yet. Got my last eye exam there - $75 vs. almost $200 through health insurance co-op. I found an edamame/black bean/quinoa salad there awhile back that was really good.

I go there for the produce - Earthbound Organic 1-lb spinach clamshells for $3.69! Fuck yeah!

is costco a regional thing? i've never seen one in the upper midwest and i'm only aware of them via patton oswalt.

― OH WOW GRANDFATHER CLOCK HAT (arby's), Wednesday, September 1, 2010 5:33 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I'm not sure what the "upper midwest" is but there's at least one in Chicago.

yeah i just checked and there's about 5 of 'em encircling the twin cities! guess i need to get to the burbs.

We have our Costco run as pre-planned and efficient as a commando raid

i've been stocking up on the illy canned iced cappuccino -- i think a package of 10 is about $10.

I must confess, Costco is where I buy my Nutella because it costs a fraction of what it does anywhere else.

Father forgive me.

We have our Costco run as pre-planned and efficient as a commando raid

same here. we get in and out of there, no pussyfooting around.

destroy: not accepting mastercard.

some the people at costco seem like they would be better off if they went to the hospital instead

I liked Costco when I lived in CA -- for one thing, CA has rational liquor laws and I could buy beer, wine and spirits under one roof. Also, the buck-fifty polish+drink was a decent cheap dinner before shopping, esp with a couple of bites of dessert from the sample-grannies stationed around the store. Kirkland balsamic vinegar is very good as I recall, if you can figure out what to do with a gallon.

The nearest Costco here is Memphis, and I kept my membership for a couple of years, but it wasn't cost-effective. Sam's Club is a poor substitute.

pre-planned and efficient as a commando raid

My Costco raids are reasonably targeted, except when it comes to buying beer sampler packs and whiskey

i don't find their alcohol prices that special. i always take a peek anyway, just in case, but there's nothing i can't get at bevmo.

one thing i always get is the 3-pack of firm tofu. i love keeping tofu around the house cuz it's so versatile and gets me out of a rut with my cooking. i used some in my pad see ew last night (leftovers tonight! yum!) and made a ma po tofu "gravy" for a tri tip steak dinner last week.

16 posts and no mention of toilet paper.

my dad's really proud because his/my costco was the first costco. it looks like the others.

^^^Same goes for my dad. They said it was "the first" but maybe it was just "one of the firsts." I believe it was in Reno. He used to use the original membership card until they asked him to stop.

The first one opened in Seattle in the '80s. I drive past the Kirkland one every day.

Commando Costco raids otm.

Toilet paper
Heavy duty foil
Giant tub o laundry powder
2-pk dishwasher detergent
SW diced tomatoes
Sundried tomatoes: huge jar 4 cheap
Kirkland evoo for cooking
Aidell sausages
Tritips are good too

I like their bedlinen too. Cheaper than stores, pretty sturdy.

We go maybe once every 3 months...whenever the toilet paper runs low, lol

i too have availed myself of the heavy-duty foil, diced tomatoes, sundried tomatoes, and aidell sausages!

btw, paper products usually are cheaper on sale at other stores, costco just makes you feel awesome by buying a ton at once

Since I started making the cat food, I get 20 lbs or so of organic boneless skinless chicken thighs every 2 weeks in addition to the usual staples: wine, tp, paper towels, heavy cream, sour cream, butter, diet coke, Beecher's and buffalo mozzarella and romano and Tillamook cheeses, olive oil, 2 gallons of white vinegar at a whack. Enormous bags of various chips. The Evergood hot links are tasty. And their aspirin is a deal, since our TJs don't carry it anymore.

Agreed about their linens! Also, bath towels.

My wife likes to MEANDER through Costco, like it's a park or something.

It is, literally, the most aggravating thing in my life right now.

It is, literally, the most aggravating thing in my life right now.

Sympathies, seriously.

Cosctco:

Toilet paper
Paper towels
Dishwasher liquid
pork roast (we cut it in half, freeze half as a roast and make chops out of the rest)
chicken
occasionally salmon or roast beef
duck confit as needed
cheese (good English cheddar, manchego, mimolette - hard cheeses that can last since we're buying a lot plus a bag of Babybels)
pasta
Italian tuna in oil
Olive oil
Sonicare
Razor blades

I have a weakness for their polishes. That's pretty much the only times I eat one.

Btw, that list is in order. We make a beeline for the back of the store and work our way back up to the registers where we often spend as much time in line as we did picking everything up.

Italian tuna in oil

Oh! I hope mine carries this. I've gotten a few good deals by the case on Amazon, but they don't always have it.

We usually buy 2 or 3 cases of bottled water there at a time (and when needed). For around $3.70 a case, you cannot beat that anywhere. 35 16.9oz bottles per case is a great deal. We try to avoid hitting the store on the weekends. Place is nuts. But I must say, that it is a great place to get a cheap bite for lunch -- A large polish hotdog and diet coke for $1.50 is nice.

I spit on people that buy bottled water at mine because we have fucking great tap water

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2235/2415527871_c7097d7449_o.jpg

Thats how I feel when I have to go too. Always so fucking crowded with rude as hell people pushing and shoving.

i know i feel like a shirley manson/kate moss lookalike in black lingerie and a gun in my mouth.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/bzzagent-bzzscapes-prod/chicken-bake--lrg.png

Why can you find these nowhere else? They're better than pizza.

I got my Amex/Costco rewards thing. It is nearly $300. I apparently can cash it out at Costco, or spend it there. I kind of want a new television. I think I will buy one on Amazon, then cash out at Costco or just buy ten cases of Red Bull.

Costco!

How is this place even possible. I bought this two-pound thing of smoked pulled pork and it was like, I don't know, maybe $8? And it's really good! It tastes like pulled pork from a legit barbecue joint.

our Costco list is still pretty much the same as upthread

add to that list occasionally:
batteries
wiper blades
Brita water filters
Giant block of sliced pepper jack cheese!

they started selling Rosie's chicken sausages, no Aidells last time. Rosie's sausages are pretty gross, I don't think I'll get them again. The chicken is way over-processed, has the consistency of a corndog. Had to cook them with really strong flavored sauces to disguise the icky taste.

my boss has been promising me a membership here for a while, still waiting. MIL took me on a shopping spree at our local costco for my b'day, loved it.

Giant tubs of Buffala Mozzarella! 2LB bags of chocolate covered Acai berries for $7.50! Variety cases of Kirkland brand beer (made by Saranac, I think) for $18.99! I bought a fucking 42-piece snapware set for $24. I bought an HD video camera for $200.

The Don Pedro burritos are pretty good for frozen burritos. The Cedarlane ones less so.

A few weeks ago when I was there an old black dude who was handing out Oreo samples intoned "America has changed, but the Oreo is still the same."

old man otm

their giant bags of green beans are p good come Thanksgiving time

I used to think "this shit isn't for me, it's for people with five kids." But you can make it work if you have even a little bit of storage space in your apartment -- we go every two weeks, and we stash stuff like cans of tomato paste, boxes of chicken stock and rolls of paper towels in pretty much every free nook and cranny of our kitchen. We buy the giant thing of salad greens and make ourselves eat a lot of salad. We buy the six pepper pack and actually use it. We buy a big bag of apples. We buy huge things of meat and fish and divide them up and freeze them -- you get like good flounder for the price of supermarket salmon! Prime steak for the price of choice! Giant loaves of whole grain bread at like $2/loaf!

yeah when I first met Mr Veg he was living in a tiny apartment and every single cupboard/closet in the whole place, kitchen/hallway/bathroom/bedroom were filled with Costco toilet rolls, lol

more like Jerkland

guys they started carrying these containers of dried shiitake mushrooms at very reasonable prices. I bought multiple in case they do not have them later.

Last time I got a tub of goma wakame. It was pretty good.

Wish I could snap my fingers and change the Sam's Club in Tupelo into a Costco.

I wish you could snap your fingers and turn Tupelo into Kansas City

That too! Although if I could have done it a few years ago, I'd be dead of Too Much Barbecue disease by now.

I know of no such disease

I got a 48-count Durex Pleasure Pack for $10 this week.

Then I realized the probable reaction of a girl who sees me reaching into my industrial can o' condoms.

lol

what you should really do is empty it almost all the way so you can reach into it dramatically and fish around like "gee, do I -- have -- any -- left -- aha"

xp:

http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumblarge_439/1253540304rzws4h.jpg

ws

can you stash the bulk pack somewhere and have a smaller, 'normal size' box you can refill?

Yeah, I'm just going to put a couple at a time in my bedside table. Though I kind of want to test the giant metal can o' prophylactics experience.

maybe I can find a gallon jug of lube to go with it

haha

it'd be funny if you had a spare room in the house that just had a mattress on the floor, a giant jug of lube and a huge bulk can of condoms

that room would inevitably smell horrible

^^d3athdr0ne's apartment

eek

forget I said anything

costco hotdogs are good, so +1
on the other hand, they tore up my familiy membership card b/c it had a picture of my dad on it, and i was apparently not the authorized user, so – 2
their vanilla extract is surprisngly good +1

net 0 i'm going to BJs

otm vanilla extract!

how to obtain costco lunch w/out being costco member:

1. approach costco front entrance
2. take the "out" exit, as if either to talk to management/"go to work"/return something
3. wait in line, decide whether you want polish or regular
4. free drink

it'd be funny if you had a spare room in the house that just had a mattress on the floor, a giant jug of lube and a huge bulk can of condoms

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, March 22, 2012 11:34 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a condo with nothing but condoms in it?

condo(m)

In the process of moving from this house to a new apartment, I may have to stage the bare mattress, jug o' lube and condom scene for a photo.

:D

should there also be a bottle of cheap vodka?

costco also apparently has a gel-foam-mattress-in-a-box as I learned today. It's probably like double king size though.

oreo guy was back, but today he was doing an elaborate spiel about some layer cake that all his customers have been waiting for since it last went out of stock. He's really quite a gifted sample barker.

Mine has those gel foam mattresses in all the standard sizes. I almost got one, but apparently they're miserably hot in Texas.

how much produce do they have there? is it good? trying to figure out if it's worth it for a single person to be a member. it's on my way home from work.

If you can get through a 4 lb bag of brussels sprouts or 3 lbs of asparagus or 5 heads of romaine before they go bad, it's possibly worth it. Ours usually has a good deal on avocados, but I have to eat one every day or they get gross. We have been going through their raspberries like nobody's business this summer though.

Have never seen fresh kale or collards at ours btw, nor zucchini. Lots of carrot and celery sticks, and various tubs of precut salad greens abound.

yeah super quantities of vegetables are not gonna work!

Green beans are good, or tomatoes if you can't get decent ones elswewhere. Otherwise it's kind of a miss, produce-wise

what about other foods? frozen meat/fish? not so interested in prepared frozen foods.

True, the only produce we buy on the reg are the campari tomatoes, romaine hearts, asparagus and mushrooms (which always go manky before we use them all). You can't rely on anything to be there, sort of like Trader Joe's. Also, I will never buy a giant bag of onions at Costco ever again - the last ones all rotted from the inside out and I have never dealt with anything so gross.

The meat is all good quality, and ours carries grass-fed pastured beef now - 3 lb minimum for ground though, so you'd probably need freezer space. Decent selection of fresh fish here, but again it's a side of salmon or 4 big halibut steaks.

They used to have good prices on boneless chicken breasts; red meat is usually a little on the fatty side & not alway much of a deal...but Aidells sausages are way cheaper than store prices, if you have occasion to buy them

Never even considered a membership here once my kids were out of diapers, but I've heard OK things about their liquor selection and prices.

i don't think they have alcohol in maryland. i started thinking about this because i want a new blender and some other stuff i could get cheap there and my coworkers keep talking it up. one is married with no kids and one is single and i think uses her mom's membership. she had a big container of seaweed salad in the fridge that was really good.

VG, I always think they trim the beef and pork way too close! But then I'm an oleophile (plus we are on the all-fat diet basically).

When I was making cat food, we'd get 20 lbs of organic boneless chicken thighs to grind up way cheaper than anything at the grocery.

Got a very nice wool/cashmere London Fog car coat for $99. Warm, water resistant, and feels very nice. Only drawback is that it's black, and I usually prefer charcoal or navy.

Just joined formally for the first time ever. That said every visit to my local one has been essentially terrifying.

How to be carless and take advantage of Costco intrigues me a little.

I don't think Ned is carless anymore

they sell those at costco now, really convenient

also the easy answer is: share the membership with a car-owning friend

:( a hero falls xp

To my eternal bemusement, I do now own a car, though I don't drive it.

how were you going to re-enact Tawny Kitaen's part in the "Here I Go Again" video without a car?

It's true I had everything else necessary.

How to be carless and take advantage of Costco intrigues me a little.

― WmC, Monday, October 15, 2012 11:13 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You could get a large foldable grandma cart.

You can also rely on a car service. The manhattan one has cars waiting at all times. You just have to I guess make the trips economical enough (i.e. buy enough stuff/save enough money) that the car service is worth it, which I've never tried to do bc we have a car (although I did figure out that the insurance and gas on our old, paid-off car is more than covered by our grocery savings)

To my eternal bemusement, I do now own a car, though I don't drive it.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, October 15, 2012 10:18 AM (16 minutes ago)

Ned and Not-Ned in one easy sentence.

I hadn't even thought of a car service. Still undercaffeinated.

i miss having a costco membership. a. and i let ours lapse because we just weren't going enough to justify the cost. but it is a good deal if you play your cards right.

yo, i seriously hate costco. but i love BJs. I got a pair of high index eyeglasses for $200, and a lot of cranberries for $7.99

i got my glasses at costco. their eye exams are cheap and i don't think you need a membership to get one. $50 plus $10 for high-res photos of your eyes.

ooh, maybe i can get a second opinion. i secretly enjoy eye exams a lot, except for the dilation.

well you can always ask for a condensed version

people who have memberships: how often do you go?

once every couple of months: whenever we run out of -
- toilet paper
- dishwasher detergent
-laundry powder
or if we need tritips for tailgating bbqs

damn, tri tip sounds good.

they're HUGE is the only thing - usually 3+ pounds per, either in a 3 pack or crazy cryo 10 pack which we've never bought.

but they're usually pretty well marbled and they barbecue up really good. great if you're cooking for a big group.

not super cheap, but a decent price for the quality.

I stop once a week for gas (it's right on my way to/from work). We have a chest freezer and a vacuum sealer, and are highly carnivorous, so we buy large quantities of various meats every few weeks as well as eggs, butter, cream, cheeses, and frozen broccoli. The only fresh produce we buy anymore from Costco is romaine hearts and campari tomatoes since we can get through them before they rot. An occasional case of wine (and now we can buy hard liquor there too! One giant bottle of Bombay Sapphire procured!) and numerous flats of diet Coke.

beer is sometimes good

our new discovery: wiper blades!

Alcohol never seems like it's a bargain there at all. At least compared to trader joes. And the kirkland brand beer is the same price and same thing (rebranded gordon biersch) as the trader joe's house brand beer, at least in CA. But then I guess according to CA law you can buy alcohol at Costco without needing a membership so maybe it's intentionally not discounted.

hard liquor prices are surprisingly lower on some items

yo, i seriously hate costco. but i love BJs.

well really, who doesn't?

right on TARGET.

Our Costco has 24-packs of Kirkland ales for $18.99, which is definitely cheaper than the equivalent TJ beers here ($6 per sixpack iirc), although both are reasonable and of similar quality.

We go once every two weeks - it really works out well as long as you develop a kind of routine and set of staples that you stick to. Costco we get meats, fish, a 24-pack of organic eggs, dried fruit/trail mix type stuff, fruits like apples, pears, bananas, almond butter, hummus, goat and feta cheese, any condiments, paper goods and cleaning products we're out of, etc. The weekends we don't do Costco we supplement with Trader Joe's and the farmer's market. This has kept our grocery bill pretty reasonable ($600-700/month for a couple and a baby in New York City) while keeping us well fed (good fish like flounder, prime steak, organic ground beef, organic chicken, etc.) -- and we barely eat any of our meals out and rarely get takeout.

ooh almond butter is a good call. and hummus too. I'll hve to check those out

Yeah they have a really good almond butter called Maranatha that comes in like a double-sized jar. It's a little hard to stir the tall jar, but once you get past that it's delicious.

weee that's the brand I use already! hmm. I might need to plan a sooner trip.

hummus they carry the sabra brand by us, which I find just ok. The pine nut one is good. The garden veggie one is kind of nasty.

they used to have really good burritos 3-packs years ago, which were good when you were shopping after work and wouldn't have time to cook much by the tiem you got home.

bummed they don't have them anymore

I sometimes get these frozen burritos there called Don something or other, and they're good in that they taste nothing like a real burrito but like the absolute ideal cheesy salty mess of a frozen burrito.

Same with their quesadillas, whose name I also forget.

I had been skeptical of the Costco coffees, especially since buying 2-3 lbs of coffee at once is kind of yuck in terms of freshness (especially if you're the only coffee drinker in your house), but I couldn't really not try the whole bean colombian at around $5.50 a pound -- it was so cheap that even if I wound up not using half I'd be saving money over my fancypants coffee (stumptown, grumpy, counter culture etc.). It's actually pretty damned good!

we may have to resort to that. we're going through a pound a week lately, which is getting hella expensive

Mr Veg scored a jar of Maranatha Almond butter last week - AND a 6 pack of 32oz Almond Milk for $8.89 :D

Is that almond butter super watery for you? Even after leaving it in the fridge it is almost too runny to use.

Not for me. I have been buying the small jars for a long time I've never found it watery? the only tiresome thing is stirring in the oil that first time.

I must have got a bad one. It is way too oily to be normal.

Their organic peanut butter is good too, but they never seem to have it.

There's a lot of oil, def. I have found that an immersion blender helps. It's kinda messy but it mixes in the oil way better than a knife.

Recent purchases included the eternal standbys -- toilet paper and paper towels.

the classics

I use the Maranatha almond butter. I p much go crazy with stirring it and getting all the harder, drier parts off the bottom and properly mixed in, which gets it into pretty good form. Still on the runnier side but not bad.

10-gallon drum of Maker's Mark, casket, socks...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XykpZgCO5bA

hahaha, Ann Romney barely able to conceal her disgust at the shirts (which, btw, don't come in "packs" at my Costco?)

I am BACK at Costco. My sister joined and let me be her +1. I am going regularly just for the meat, seafood, spinach and greek yogurt. Since that is like all I eat.

ooh good call on greek yogurt. I might have to investigate that too!

i didn't know about the costco thanksgiving dinner! has anyone tried this?

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/eating/2012/11/a_very_costco_thanksgiving_fee.php

Giant bags of baby kale!

I make a costco trip when I run out of kerrygold irish butter.

getting low on almond butter & bog rolls, about time for a trip

my gf works at costco. sometimes she'll bring home a gigantic container full of cashews. I can't be bothered to even look at a peanut these days. they're beneath me.

you think you're better than me?

at tecmo super bowl? yes fucking yes.

but there's no need for fisticuffs. let us post our top 5 nuts, seeds, legumes, what have you and let the people decide. Here's my list:
1. Cashews
2. - 5. Fuck the rest of this peasant fodder

Anyone see the Costco special on CNBC a couple weeks ago?

I fucking love Costco. I would live in a Kirkland house. I would drive a Kirkland car. I want Costco to run our government. Costco for president.

Ha. Hurting, my gf was basically required to watch it! It was cool. I can vouch that Costco is a pretty cool company in many ways.

She wa required in the sense that people would talk about it at work

Does she work at Costco?

Yes, she manages the food court thing

In our town obv. Not at national level

Nice. I wanted to work for costco after seeing the doc

I also had some roasted peanuts at cielito happy hour that were pretty delicious. had some lime juice on them and everything. cashews are still preferred, but I feel bad about the peanut bashing above

pretty surprised nobody has discussed costco return policy in this thread. you can just return anything at any time, no questions asked. weird. gf says people return engagement rings and such on the reg.

Electronics have a shorter return period now, thanks to assholes who'd return a perfectly good TV after two years to get a new model. Still way generous, 60-90 days or something.

I want Costco to run our government.

Paradise Costco style. Within a year or two we would all be working for minimum wage or doing migrant labor. And liquor would cost 10% more.

Costco pays way more than min wage

but their biz model doesnt require as much labor as most box stores

A co-worker's friend once "bought" a huge, top-of-the-line TV at Costco (pre-LCD) for a Superbowl party he threw, and returned it thereafter. I thought this kind of thing had become so common that they didn't allow it anymore. (NB: may have been another chain, Best Buy or something)

Apparently if you get bad veggies/fruit or something like that you can just call them and tell them and they'll refund your money. You don't even have to bring it back!

gf says old people are always returning stuff they let expire

Do they keep track of people in case of abuse of the policy?

Oh yeah. They have all purchases and returns associated w/ the membership

So anyone try the Kirkland Rwanda coffee? Similar bag to the Colombian, purports to be darker roast, which means I probably won't like it, but I have a lot of faith in the Kirkland brand.

I don't get why they still haven't paired with some premium coffee roaster and done a higher-end blend, all their coffees are at ridiculously low price points, like $5-7/lb, and most are not that good. I feel like they could probably have something really good for like $10-11 lb and their customers would love it.

I feel like this is Trader Joe's thread fodder but I got it at Costco:
http://mycostcoreviews.blogspot.com/2015/03/maya-kaimal-coconut-chicken-curry.html

not bad at all for prepackaged curry imo

We occasionally get the packed prepared foods from Costco -- for a while they carried a really tasty carnitas but that's gone. They have an angus beef thing that's ok, and their chicken skewers are surprisingly good. None of it beats home cooking, but it's all clutch with kids in the house.

btw

http://luckypeach.com/the-official-costco-food-court-power-rankings/

They have a cooked sliced roast beef from Cuisine Solutions that's kind of awesome when pressed for time or put on a salad for cold lunch.

they used to have pretty dope burritos but they are long gone now :/

Before reading that site, I would like to do my own power-ranking:

Plain pizza
Turkey Sandwich (the one with the provolone and pesto mayo and red onion on the torta roll
Sausage Sandwich
Combo Pizza
Hot Dog
Swirl Ice Cream
Chicken Caesar

not a fan of the berry frappe thing

have not tried the beef sandwich or the chicken bake

not too far off from the luckypeach ranking, although it sounds like maybe the writer just got a bad sandwich? I fucking love that sandwich and it's nothing like what was described.

I wish Costco had standalone food courts, I really want their pizza now.

foodcourt gives me bowel spasms just walking past, let alone eating there

not a fan imo

I wish we had that turkey sandwich, sounds chill

The chicken bake sounds awful when you consider the whole of its existence, but I want to try it

Yeah it's probably good but it's so disgusting in theory.

me irl

the chicken bake thing is foul

Sort of embarrassed to be excited that the new Costco visa has better rewards than the old Costco Amex. Costco visa plus exec membership means we get 4% back

our costco has huge tubs of jellybellys :D

have to love workplace convo that is just you and coworkers talking about Costco credit cards and benefits and what is best to buy at Costco

That's like my replacement for ( non nba) sports talk

Costco Travel is great too if you're looking at relatively standard destinations and non adventurous trips.

Man, Costco travel (and car rental) made us our membership money back in one purchase, essentially. We had booked a cruise to Alaska via the cruise line, and not only was it easy to just transfer the booking over to/through Costco instead, the move instantly earned each of us $500 in trip credit. Car rental, too, we've essentially saved more on a rental than our membership costs. The 4% back credit card is a great development, and Costco gas prices (really sympatico with the credit card) here are typically around $0.30 less a gallon than at the public pump. More awesome Costco: our vision insurance (like that of many) covers one check-up and pair of prescription glasses a year, but of course my kids' eyes are changing quickly, so we decided to go out of insurance to Costco, where they have an independent eye doctor who was awesome, and whose prices were more than fair. And they were fast, with new glasses in just a couple of days. And where us can you get a good quality birthday cake that feeds 48 for just $20? Plus Costco has the best return policy on basically anything, which is more or less worth the price of admission.

I love Costco. They're apparently good to their employees, too.

i love costco more than i should and i need help

i used to buy FAGE greek yogurt bc i liked the full fat stuff but costco greek yogurt is so much cheaper and has the same protein content that it persuaded me to switch to 0% fat yogurt. it's more watery though. also the huge bags of frozen blueberries or strawberries. every day i microwave some of them + plop on some greek yogurt it's like a dream breakfast

perhaps in a move to take some wind out of Citi, the Chase Freedom Visa is offering 5% rewards on Costco purchases, July thru September. It's one of those thingies you have to "activate" on the credit card website.

whoa i still have a chase freedom that i never closed, i think? would probably be shut down as suspicious activity if i tried to use it though ;)

tuscan pork tenderloins: a bit too salty but too economical to turn down. i cook about 8 at a time and freeze about 8 in each of two vacuum seal bags. takes 15 min to cook and great cold the next day at lunch!

just got "organic no-salt seasoning" and i'm putting it on everything, too

yo yeah that stuff is great

We also bought some kind of steak seasoning mix there and H made rack of lamb and roasted vegetables with it a couple weeks ago, and it tasted like food from a good steakhouse.

is it the montreal seasoning? my father in law swore by that, his tri-tip was from the gods

oh yeah, that's what it was!

It was off the chain, seriously

yeah it's dope

that and mustard powder: boom

http://www.kiro7.com/news/couple-got-married-in-a-costco-food-court-and-it-looked-surprisingly-beautiful-1/615981960

they have these cookies at the moment that are craaaazy good - mix pack of oatmeal raisin, white choc macadamia & chocolate chip
idk who makes them but they’re my favorite rn

and Einstein bagels! but have to freeze them asap, they go stale really fast :/

The one by me seems to be trying to up its coffee game a bit. For a while they had this stuff called Parisi, specifically a light-to-medium roasted Bolivian coffee that is the first Costco coffee I've found good enough to make in a french press. It tastes like a pretty good approximation of some of the fancier light roast single origin coffees and is only $7.50/lb. Then they suddenly stopped carrying that again, but they had this new organic mexican medium roast that I'm about to try.

Costco discontinued its Kirkland chocolate chips (best chocolate chips on earth) and now sells only nestles. Supposedly because of the increase in cocoa prices. Thanks Joe Biden.

I am in the Costco membership line renewing our membership for the first time since we let it lapse in like 2008

we got a new mattress from costco two weeks ago & my life is changed lol

Costco has been making a point of resisting anti-DEI pressure. Apparently they have been receptive to phone calls, logging them and making note of opinions.

was going to post about the strike but that was averted at last minute so instead, informal poll:
When you use it in a sentence out loud, do you enunciate the "t", or does it come out sounding more like "kosko"?

latter - kosko

There's a freight company here called Cosco - I don't fully enunciate the t in Costco, but definitely voice it.

ok we're gonna do this

hell yeah welcome to the hive