Does this make any sense at all?
- Thread starter Jeff Grossman
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Steve Edmunds
Steve Edmunds
I'm waiting for the Costco brothel to open. Place to go after eating the Costco truffles, and drinking the Costco wine selections. Ooh! the Costco lifestyle!
Jay Miller
Jay Miller
Why wouldn't it make sense?
scottreiner
scott reiner
Not sure about the Costco Brothel. For me, brothels are like sushi restaurants: never look for bargains.
scottreiner
scott reiner
KY Mart
Ian Fitzsimmons
Ian Fitzsimmons
Ho, Ho, Ho.
Eden Mylunsch
Eden Mylunsch
Whaddya want for $6 anyway?
-Eden (but state laws probably preclude ordering them online)
I've found Costco, which is just down the road from us, to be a great place to go to buy, say, a year's worth of shaving cartridges and paper towels, and it certainly looks like a good place to buy food if you are feeding a family of 16, but our regular purchases there include Reggiano Parmigiano (I think we eat about a pound a week) and a case of Pellegrino. Back before certain kinds of fancy caviar disappeared from the market, we'd occasionally pick up some caviar there. But I've never seen truffles there.
Jay Miller
Jay Miller
while I won't be renewing my membership given the lack of any convenient locations the rack of lamb was always a nice buy there. And Tropicana Orange Juice.
Ian Fitzsimmons
Ian Fitzsimmons
Same here, also the parmesan and manchego (sp?). Also commodities (paper products, detergents). We bought a roll of tin foil at Costco in 2001 and have not purchased tin foil since (that's seven years). $13 Blue Jeans, too. The wine selection is pretty blah.
Eden Mylunsch
Eden Mylunsch
Costco's wine selection was much more adventurous when David Andrew ran the program. He's since moved on to other things, and while he's still a consultant, it's definitely not achieving its potential. It's my understanding that ordering is done on a regional basis, so if the regional beverage person isn't into wine, they're pretty much just going to stock whatever happens to be available in large quantities at great prices. This is fine if you want Crios de Susana Balbo Torronts but not so good if you're looking for Vieux-Telegraphe (although I've seen both in some of the more forward-thinking Costcos in Southern California).
As others have mentioned, the meat's pretty good for the $$, you can buy a lifetime supply of toilet paper (inadvertently or otherwise) and they've got Lucky jeans in stock for good prices. My membership fees are pretty much covered every year by the savings I avail myself of in printer ink. The closest store (a mere 35 miles) stocks the one I need and the price is so low that it justifies schlepping all the way over there.
-Eden (I once bought a gigantic box of Carr's Water Crackers there with a use-by date of May, 3009)
As others have mentioned, the meat's pretty good for the $$, you can buy a lifetime supply of toilet paper (inadvertently or otherwise) and they've got Lucky jeans in stock for good prices. My membership fees are pretty much covered every year by the savings I avail myself of in printer ink. The closest store (a mere 35 miles) stocks the one I need and the price is so low that it justifies schlepping all the way over there.
-Eden (I once bought a gigantic box of Carr's Water Crackers there with a use-by date of May, 3009)
Ian Fitzsimmons
Ian Fitzsimmons
All hail. Eden, is there anything you don't know?
Can you use their ink in a Canon printer?
I bet the crackers were made in China, and the translator just screwed up the date.
Can you use their ink in a Canon printer?
I bet the crackers were made in China, and the translator just screwed up the date.
Eden Mylunsch
Eden Mylunsch
When to shut up?
They sell the bona fide manufacturer's ink, so what they stock depends on whether the ink you need is made by a company that sells to Costco. I've got an Epson printer that uses the ink with the guitar on it. This is great marketing, BTW - it's like the menu at Denny's having a photo of every dish, because you can be illiterate or not fluent in English and still place an order by pointing. I can never remember the model of printer I own or the reorder number for the ink but Epson has a different theme for each style of ink cartridge so I just have to remember the guitar or the nature scene or whatever happens to be the meme for my printer and I'm home free (or for $75, instead of the $110 the same ink costs at Office Depot).Maybe that's why cute animals are so popular on wine labels. You don't need to remember difficult things like "Cabernet Sauvignon" or "Charbono", but just have to be able to point at the cute Koala Bear and you're outta there.
They were the legit Carr's, but someone screwed up the date. But the way we go through crackers around here we never got within a century of needing to worry about them being inedible. Unless you're not a cracker person, in which case they're all inedible.
-Eden (the Trader Joe's water crackers are a better deal than Costco's, being less expensive and available in smaller packages)