all-purpose COSTCO thread (show your membership card and receipt at the door)

Mr Veg scored a jar of Maranatha Almond butter last week - AND a 6 pack of 32oz Almond Milk for $8.89 :D

Is that almond butter super watery for you? Even after leaving it in the fridge it is almost too runny to use.

Not for me. I have been buying the small jars for a long time I've never found it watery? the only tiresome thing is stirring in the oil that first time.

I must have got a bad one. It is way too oily to be normal.

Their organic peanut butter is good too, but they never seem to have it.

There's a lot of oil, def. I have found that an immersion blender helps. It's kinda messy but it mixes in the oil way better than a knife.

Recent purchases included the eternal standbys -- toilet paper and paper towels.

the classics

I use the Maranatha almond butter. I p much go crazy with stirring it and getting all the harder, drier parts off the bottom and properly mixed in, which gets it into pretty good form. Still on the runnier side but not bad.

10-gallon drum of Maker's Mark, casket, socks...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XykpZgCO5bA

hahaha, Ann Romney barely able to conceal her disgust at the shirts (which, btw, don't come in "packs" at my Costco?)

I am BACK at Costco. My sister joined and let me be her +1. I am going regularly just for the meat, seafood, spinach and greek yogurt. Since that is like all I eat.

ooh good call on greek yogurt. I might have to investigate that too!

i didn't know about the costco thanksgiving dinner! has anyone tried this?

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/eating/2012/11/a_very_costco_thanksgiving_fee.php

Giant bags of baby kale!

I make a costco trip when I run out of kerrygold irish butter.

getting low on almond butter & bog rolls, about time for a trip

my gf works at costco. sometimes she'll bring home a gigantic container full of cashews. I can't be bothered to even look at a peanut these days. they're beneath me.

you think you're better than me?

at tecmo super bowl? yes fucking yes.

but there's no need for fisticuffs. let us post our top 5 nuts, seeds, legumes, what have you and let the people decide. Here's my list:
1. Cashews
2. - 5. Fuck the rest of this peasant fodder

Anyone see the Costco special on CNBC a couple weeks ago?

I fucking love Costco. I would live in a Kirkland house. I would drive a Kirkland car. I want Costco to run our government. Costco for president.

Ha. Hurting, my gf was basically required to watch it! It was cool. I can vouch that Costco is a pretty cool company in many ways.

She wa required in the sense that people would talk about it at work

Does she work at Costco?

Yes, she manages the food court thing

In our town obv. Not at national level

Nice. I wanted to work for costco after seeing the doc

I also had some roasted peanuts at cielito happy hour that were pretty delicious. had some lime juice on them and everything. cashews are still preferred, but I feel bad about the peanut bashing above

pretty surprised nobody has discussed costco return policy in this thread. you can just return anything at any time, no questions asked. weird. gf says people return engagement rings and such on the reg.

Electronics have a shorter return period now, thanks to assholes who'd return a perfectly good TV after two years to get a new model. Still way generous, 60-90 days or something.

I want Costco to run our government.

Paradise Costco style. Within a year or two we would all be working for minimum wage or doing migrant labor. And liquor would cost 10% more.

Costco pays way more than min wage

but their biz model doesnt require as much labor as most box stores

A co-worker's friend once "bought" a huge, top-of-the-line TV at Costco (pre-LCD) for a Superbowl party he threw, and returned it thereafter. I thought this kind of thing had become so common that they didn't allow it anymore. (NB: may have been another chain, Best Buy or something)

Apparently if you get bad veggies/fruit or something like that you can just call them and tell them and they'll refund your money. You don't even have to bring it back!

gf says old people are always returning stuff they let expire

Do they keep track of people in case of abuse of the policy?

Oh yeah. They have all purchases and returns associated w/ the membership

So anyone try the Kirkland Rwanda coffee? Similar bag to the Colombian, purports to be darker roast, which means I probably won't like it, but I have a lot of faith in the Kirkland brand.

I don't get why they still haven't paired with some premium coffee roaster and done a higher-end blend, all their coffees are at ridiculously low price points, like $5-7/lb, and most are not that good. I feel like they could probably have something really good for like $10-11 lb and their customers would love it.

I feel like this is Trader Joe's thread fodder but I got it at Costco:
http://mycostcoreviews.blogspot.com/2015/03/maya-kaimal-coconut-chicken-curry.html

not bad at all for prepackaged curry imo

We occasionally get the packed prepared foods from Costco -- for a while they carried a really tasty carnitas but that's gone. They have an angus beef thing that's ok, and their chicken skewers are surprisingly good. None of it beats home cooking, but it's all clutch with kids in the house.

btw

http://luckypeach.com/the-official-costco-food-court-power-rankings/

They have a cooked sliced roast beef from Cuisine Solutions that's kind of awesome when pressed for time or put on a salad for cold lunch.

they used to have pretty dope burritos but they are long gone now :/

Before reading that site, I would like to do my own power-ranking:

Plain pizza
Turkey Sandwich (the one with the provolone and pesto mayo and red onion on the torta roll
Sausage Sandwich
Combo Pizza
Hot Dog
Swirl Ice Cream
Chicken Caesar

not a fan of the berry frappe thing

have not tried the beef sandwich or the chicken bake

not too far off from the luckypeach ranking, although it sounds like maybe the writer just got a bad sandwich? I fucking love that sandwich and it's nothing like what was described.

I wish Costco had standalone food courts, I really want their pizza now.