You must be a super fun travel partner 
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Wife and I were recently in Hawaii, so we made sure to visit the Costco there. They had Macadamia nuts (Mauna Loa, I believe) in their snack aisles, so we bought a bag.
On my next trip to a Costco in the mainland I saw them there, too, so as Michael Scott would say, “Fool me once - strike one, but fool me twice, strike three.”
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I know a guy that brings cases of it to GA
Does he drive a Trans Am? And his partner truck driver has a basset hound?
Just wondering.
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Great minds think alike, DTNF. I totally (& independently) thought up that idea that someone should remake that with New Glarus instead of Coors. That was 45 years ago. Who would you cast as the 4 leads?
I went to Ireland once and on the way out they had duty free whiskey bottles of a brand that I had liked and had not seen in the US so I lugged back 3 of them. Of course Costco had them for the same price when I got back home about a week later.
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Duty free is usually a bit of a scam. Prices are often decent like you experienced here, but you can often get the same stuff at about the same price at home and not have to lug that around. If there’s something special in duty free that you can’t find at home, that can be worthwhile.
I haven’t planned around it, but I’ve been to Costco in Maui twice.
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Sorry, I was wrong. There are 20 Costcos in Chicagoland, not counting Kenosha or Rockford. The website initially only showed me the closest 10.
I’m a veritable 1 man riot.
Damn it! That is literally the phrase I was trying to come up with and couldn’t.
I’ve been to the Costco in Maui a couple of times too! Love Costco.
OK, that’s a good question.
Toughish guy with an irreverent sense of humor…
Shia LaBeouf
Perky gal, but not too pretty (according to the history, Sally Field was deemed not pretty enough for the role), someone who needs a big movie part can be straight or comic…
Sarah Hyland
Fun-lovin’ trucker guy who loves dogs…
H Jon Benjamin (just for the Archer voice)
No-nonsense, but inept sheriff…
The Paul Blart guy (typecasting, I know)
Duty Free is the biggest sucker deal in retail.
Do you know how much duty is?
Duty is nothing. It’s like sales tax…
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Do the hot dogs live up to the hype
I have a hard time paying for hot dogs anywhere else that cost more than their dogs, plus unlimited drinks (though it is Pepsi products, for now).
The pizza is meh, and I’m not usually starving to death, which is the state I’d have to be in to buy it, and even then, I’d have to ponder.
We base our Costco trip timing on:
- Whenever we run short on eggs (the five dozen we buy, and recently it’s two packs of those). Wife has two a day, and hard-boils six at a time for a few days.
- During the flyer-discount period, and buy several of the items we regularly buy that irregularly are discounted.
Anyway, I don’t get overly concerned when Costco is out of stuff. They evidently don’t stock items if they can’t make a reasonable profit. And they stock a ton of it when they can.
We were sad when they stopped carrying their take-n-bake pizzas. They were really tasty (not the same as the food court) and only $8
I never actually go into the Costco so I was curious about the dogs. I get deliveries often though.
The hype is the price. A buck fifty to not be hungry. I don’t like soda much and the lemonade option was some crap lite stuff, so now I’d rather the pizza or a smoothie. They’re both more than $1.50 though.
The hot dogs are good. They’re all beef… taste similar to Nathan’s, but they’re 1/4 pound.
I think the pizza is nothing special, but it’s fine. Better than Dominos, which admittedly isn’t saying a ton. And it’s $2 for a gargantuan slice.