It is, literally, the most aggravating thing in my life right now.
Sympathies, seriously.
Cosctco:
Toilet paperPaper towelsDishwasher liquidpork roast (we cut it in half, freeze half as a roast and make chops out of the rest)chickenoccasionally salmon or roast beefduck confit as neededcheese (good English cheddar, manchego, mimolette - hard cheeses that can last since we're buying a lot plus a bag of Babybels)pastaItalian tuna in oilOlive oilSonicareRazor 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.
― Un peu d'Eire, ça fait toujours Dublin (Michael White), Thursday, 2 September 2010 14:49 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Jaq, Thursday, 2 September 2010 14:56 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― van smack, Friday, 3 September 2010 22:37 (thirteen years ago) link
I spit on people that buy bottled water at mine because we have fucking great tap water
― mh, Saturday, 4 September 2010 00:05 (thirteen years ago) link
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2235/2415527871_c7097d7449_o.jpg
― jaxon, Monday, 7 March 2011 01:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Thats how I feel when I have to go too. Always so fucking crowded with rude as hell people pushing and shoving.
― rendezvous then i'm through with HOOS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 7 March 2011 01:39 (thirteen years ago) link
i know i feel like a shirley manson/kate moss lookalike in black lingerie and a gun in my mouth.
― hauntological-hysteric theater (get bent), Monday, 7 March 2011 01:43 (thirteen years ago) link
http://s3.amazonaws.com/bzzagent-bzzscapes-prod/chicken-bake--lrg.png
Why can you find these nowhere else? They're better than pizza.
― Crouching Seward, Hidden Raggett (kelpolaris), Monday, 7 March 2011 01:45 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― mh, Monday, 7 March 2011 01:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Costco!
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Thursday, 22 March 2012 01:00 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Thursday, 22 March 2012 01:02 (eleven years ago) link
our Costco list is still pretty much the same as upthread
add to that list occasionally:batterieswiper bladesBrita water filtersGiant 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.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 March 2012 01:07 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― just1n3, Thursday, 22 March 2012 01:09 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Thursday, 22 March 2012 01:09 (eleven years ago) link
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."
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Thursday, 22 March 2012 01:11 (eleven years ago) link
old man otm
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 March 2012 01:17 (eleven years ago) link
their giant bags of green beans are p good come Thanksgiving time
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 March 2012 01:18 (eleven years ago) link
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!
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Thursday, 22 March 2012 01:21 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 March 2012 01:26 (eleven years ago) link
more like Jerkland
― buzza, Thursday, 22 March 2012 02:35 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― mh, Thursday, 22 March 2012 14:02 (eleven years ago) link
Last time I got a tub of goma wakame. It was pretty good.
― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Thursday, 22 March 2012 14:12 (eleven years ago) link
Wish I could snap my fingers and change the Sam's Club in Tupelo into a Costco.
― any major prude will tell you (WmC), Thursday, 22 March 2012 14:17 (eleven years ago) link
I wish you could snap your fingers and turn Tupelo into Kansas City
― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Thursday, 22 March 2012 14:19 (eleven years ago) link
That too! Although if I could have done it a few years ago, I'd be dead of Too Much Barbecue disease by now.
― any major prude will tell you (WmC), Thursday, 22 March 2012 14:24 (eleven years ago) link
I know of no such disease
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 March 2012 15:05 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 22 March 2012 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
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"
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Thursday, 22 March 2012 15:16 (eleven years ago) link
xp:
http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumblarge_439/1253540304rzws4h.jpg
― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Thursday, 22 March 2012 15:16 (eleven years ago) link
ws
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Thursday, 22 March 2012 15:20 (eleven years ago) link
can you stash the bulk pack somewhere and have a smaller, 'normal size' box you can refill?
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 March 2012 15:29 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 22 March 2012 15:31 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 March 2012 15:34 (eleven years ago) link
that room would inevitably smell horrible
― mh, Thursday, 22 March 2012 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
^^d3athdr0ne's apartment
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 22 March 2012 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
eek
forget I said anything
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 March 2012 16:22 (eleven years ago) link
costco hotdogs are good, so +1on 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 – 2their vanilla extract is surprisngly good +1
net 0 i'm going to BJs
― aka vanilla bean (remy bean), Thursday, 22 March 2012 16:26 (eleven years ago) link
otm vanilla extract!
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 March 2012 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
how to obtain costco lunch w/out being costco member:
1. approach costco front entrance2. take the "out" exit, as if either to talk to management/"go to work"/return something3. wait in line, decide whether you want polish or regular4. free drink
― kelpolaris, Thursday, 22 March 2012 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, March 22, 2012 11:34 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
a condo with nothing but condoms in it?
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Sunday, 25 March 2012 20:48 (eleven years ago) link
condo(m)
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 March 2012 21:33 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Sunday, 25 March 2012 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
:D
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 March 2012 21:45 (eleven years ago) link
should there also be a bottle of cheap vodka?
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Sunday, 25 March 2012 21:49 (eleven years ago) link
costco also apparently has a gel-foam-mattress-in-a-box as I learned today. It's probably like double king size though.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Sunday, 25 March 2012 22:00 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Sunday, 25 March 2012 22:01 (eleven years ago) link
Mine has those gel foam mattresses in all the standard sizes. I almost got one, but apparently they're miserably hot in Texas.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Sunday, 25 March 2012 22:13 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― kneel aurmstrong (harbl), Saturday, 18 August 2012 16:59 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Jaq, Saturday, 18 August 2012 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
me irl
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 19 February 2016 03:54 (eight years ago) link
the chicken bake thing is foul
― just1n3, Friday, 19 February 2016 05:06 (eight years ago) link
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
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Friday, 24 June 2016 02:22 (seven years ago) link
our costco has huge tubs of jellybellys :D
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 24 June 2016 02:31 (seven years ago) link
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
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 24 June 2016 02:33 (seven years ago) link
That's like my replacement for ( non nba) sports talk
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Friday, 24 June 2016 03:08 (seven years ago) link
Costco Travel is great too if you're looking at relatively standard destinations and non adventurous trips.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Friday, 24 June 2016 03:10 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 24 June 2016 11:55 (seven years ago) link
i love costco more than i should and i need help
― assawoman bay (harbl), Saturday, 25 June 2016 00:53 (seven years ago) link
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
― assawoman bay (harbl), Saturday, 25 June 2016 01:01 (seven years ago) link
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.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Thursday, 7 July 2016 16:11 (seven years ago) link
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 ;)
― assawoman bay (harbl), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 00:52 (seven years ago) link
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!
― assawoman bay (harbl), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 00:53 (seven years ago) link
just got "organic no-salt seasoning" and i'm putting it on everything, too
― assawoman bay (harbl), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 00:54 (seven years ago) link
yo yeah that stuff is great
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 02:34 (seven years ago) link
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.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 02:36 (seven years ago) link
is it the montreal seasoning? my father in law swore by that, his tri-tip was from the gods
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 03:21 (seven years ago) link
oh yeah, that's what it was!
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 03:25 (seven years ago) link
It was off the chain, seriously
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 03:26 (seven years ago) link
yeah it's dope
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 03:32 (seven years ago) link
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
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Thursday, 28 September 2017 15:19 (six years ago) link
they have these cookies at the moment that are craaaazy good - mix pack of oatmeal raisin, white choc macadamia & chocolate chipidk who makes them but they’re my favorite rn
and Einstein bagels! but have to freeze them asap, they go stale really fast :/
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 September 2017 18:54 (six years ago) link
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.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Thursday, 28 September 2017 19:09 (six years ago) link