independent of Costco (not a member) - I love rotisserie chickens. for like $7 i can feed myself for 4 meals!
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Forgive them, Disco.bot, for they know not what they do!!!
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Rotisserie is great for things where I need cooked chicken, like buffalo chicken dip or soup or chicken salad. Cooking and chopping or shredding chicken is just the worst, and a rotisserie chicken makes it so much easier. Also it tastes way better.
I don’t even know - what would a raw whole chicken cost me and how long would it take me to make it? would it come out as consistently good? I doubt i would save much of anything.
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PSA on rotisserie chicken - they are often pumped full of added salt. Something to be aware of if you are sensitive to it.
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not sensitive to it. definitely appreciative of it!
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Pretty sure Costco loses money on each chicken sold but it attracts shoppers
Actually, if you read through the Costco financials, they make the majority of their profits off of membership fees. The stores themselves do not make a heck of a lot of profit, percentage-wise. There are loss leaders, like the roti-chicken and the food court hot dogs.
from the interwebs:
So we’ve got:
- Sales of $138 billion.
- Cost of goods sold of $123 billion.
- And selling, general, and administrative costs of $14 billion.
That leaves us with just $1 billion dollars… but the company reported over $3 billion in net income for the year. So where’s the extra money coming from?
Costco’s real source of income: its memberships.
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could that have been Sears? They started the card.
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How short from the upgrade fee would you (anyone) need to be before it’s not worth it to claim the refund?
$1? two bucks? Five? Ten?
Could have been. Sometimes I have trouble remembering what I had for breakfast so why I got a specific card in the 90s is sketchy at best.
I go there to get lunch from time to time.
I only buy stuff at Costco maybe two or three times a year. (I got a membership when I was living at home. The bill still goes there and my dad just pays it now.)
We are at the grocery store 4-6 times a week, so we just restock stuff as we need it–I don’t need a 4-pack of Guldens or a three gallon box of corn flakes.
Years ago, we had a freezer which was an upright, like a refrigerator, had shelves, etc. Never had to dig out stuff from under other stuff. Only down side is that it would have been difficult to hide a dead body in it, if that matters to you.
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This is exactly what I’m planning to buy. Easier to clean out, easier access. They’re a little pricier by volume but not prohibitively so.
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freezer room or gtfo
Are the upright freezers frost free or do you have to manually defrost them? The defrosting cycle of most kitchen fridges is what destroys the food in them in a few months if you don’t go through it.
We switched from a chest freezer to an upright two years ago. 10/10.
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I’m trying to reconcile my acceptance of a chest freezer with having a French door bottom freezer fridge where food goes to die in the freezer.
I think the difference is small impulse buys and things I plan to freeze for a few days (and forget about ) go in the bottom freezer vs stuff I buy from Costco that are in a regular rotation go in the chest freezer.
I know I “bad-mouthed” costco in another thread, but I will say this: the quality of their salmon and flowers is better than what you get at kroger.
We’ve had an upright freezer for 15+ years. I can’t imagine a world without it.