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I still don’t get people raving about a $1.50 hotdog at a grocery store chain that requires a subscription to get in. Their business model is making you think you’re saving money, not actually saving you money.
I mean, if you never go, sure. But it’s $65 a year. You can easily save that much in a couple of trips compared to if you bought the food somewhere else.
my membership is $120 and I get back, on average, $120 in the refund cheque every year
I told the lady asking me about my membership that I lost last year’s refund cheque, so they went out of their way to mail me all of those cheques. I didn’t ask for it - they just enough it up and then said “hey we see you didn’t spend the three years before that either, do you want those too?”
are some things more expensive? of course, just like anywhere. but the things I buy and some of the ‘exclusive’ products make it work it for me
fuck it’s worth it for dog food alone tbh, and my dogs are only 65lb combined. but my other favourites from there are bread, some of the meat & fish, frozen goods, and household disposables. far better pricing than Loblaws. and ofc I still aim for buying Canadian
If the sole reason you have a Costco membership is for the hotdogs, then I would agree, but for the vast majority of people the reason they shop at Costco is to buy items in bulk and save money compared to buying the same amount at the local chain grocery store.
It’s not even because the hotdog itself is particularly good. It’s your standard beef frankfurter and a fountain soda. There’s no magic with the item from a culinary standpoint. It’s the fact that they still haven’t raised the price on it when they almost certainly could have done so silently a long time ago and nobody would have noticed or cared. It’s the one act of upper management bothering to think about their customers for a change rather than just gouging every single cent they can get out of their members because some math formula told them that it was possible.
The sad thing is that they have like no condiments now. At least at mine they only offer ketchup and mustered. I remember loading up on onions, cheese, relish and all kinds of stuff. Its sad that I passed on it the other day.
Unfortunately it’s a fungible token.
Literally on my top 3 reasons to have a Costco membership. Anyone looking out for my dog prices is a friend of mine.
They’ve still managed to chip away at it a little. It used to be that you could pick a regular hot dog or a polish sausage for the same price, but the latter is gone now. They also used the pandemic as an excuse to get rid of the sauerkraut, and now I think even the onions are gone.
Also during the pandemic, the local Costco Business Center just demolished their cafe entirely.
weird, up here we still have $1.50 beef or polish sausage
At least at my Costco we never had sauerkraut. We had the onion dispenser thing before COVID. Now if you ask, they give you onions.
Sauerkraut is one of the reasons I enjoy Sam’s dogs more.
I bet it did, but you just didn’t know it. It was always a thing you had to ask for, and they’d give it to you from behind the counter.
You can still get a polish burpfest in Canada
I can’t prove it but I think the Kirkland paper towels quality has gone down too.
And they aren’t nearly as good as the sauerkraut and onions were.
And it’s $1.50 in both the US and Canada! I never really paid attention and figured it would have the exchange but nope. I actually looked last week when I was there and it was $1.50.
It seems they offer it for €1.50 in Europe, too!
Never knew we had Costco in Europe
That’s awesome, quite committed to a universal 1.50 hotdog. That’s the unity we’re gonna get these days I guess.
The real force holding these values together
Still good, but sad that it’s Coke now.
No no no I prefer slightly more evil corporations.
TIL there are people who prefer Pepsi. I literally avoid places that serve Pepsi, but I respect your right to live so perplexingly.
For me it’s Pepsi Max
perpepsingly
My dad prefers pepsi and is reasoning is sound.
It’s less sweet and pairs better with lemon, which he adds to his pepsi. It’s less carbonated.
I prefer coke. Extra fizzy. No lemon. Perhaps vanilla 😋
Flavor is an opinion, but Pepsi is objectively sweeter than coke. It was a whole debacle with the Pepsi challenge.
I have always found Pepsi sweeter than Coke
Two extra grams of sugar. Both have a ton of sugar for sure.
Pepsi is WAY sweeter than Coke.
Like, incomparably so… which is really saying something because coke tastes like a big spoon full of sugar with some corn syrup and a food coloring chaser.
The stuff made in Mexico with cane sugar is still good, and better for cooking. Pepsi is much sweeter and I enjoyed it when they had the throwback version made with sugar but no thanks on the HFCS
I like coke more as well but here in Europe it doesn’t have corn syrup so
I’m mad that there’s no sugar free option without caffeine. The new lemonade is full sugar sadly.
no sugar free option without caffeine.
That’s called “water”.
You can get a caffeine free coke zero and diet coke tho
Woosh
poor people’s coke
Blame Pepsi.
