Posted on 10/15/2019 3:40:52 PM PDT by rintintin
At the back of Costco's stores, past the televisions, jewelry, jumbo-sized ketchup jugs and tubs of mixed nuts, is one of the retailer's most prized items: The rotisserie chicken that costs just $4.99.
Cheap Kirkland Signature rotisserie chickens aren't only a quick way for families to get dinner on the table. For Costco, the chickens are a lure, pulling customers into stores and getting them to browse the aisles, adding sometimes hundreds of dollars worth of items to their shopping carts before they pick up that bird. The chickens have become almost a cult item. 91 million were sold last year, double the number from a decade earlier. They have their own Facebook page with nearly 13,000 followers. So Costco is willing to go to extreme lengths to keep its chickens at $4.99. For the past few years, it's been recruiting farmers for this moment: The official opening of a sprawling, $450 million poultry complex of its very own in Nebraska.
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The range I shoot at is behind a king soopers and sometimes the fried chicken smell infiltrates. Like shooting black powder revolvers and packing the cylinder with bacon grease.
HEB chicken rocks.
I go either way. Coke is better than Pepsi but I’m a Mountain Dew drinker
The skin from Costco rotisserie chickens was about the only thing our 18-year-old kitty would eat for the year before she died. (We ate a LOT of chicken for a year. Won’t be doing that for a long time.)
I prefer Pepsi. And I love their pizza and their Polish sausage.
The Jewel stores in my neighborhood have terrible meat, high priced too. I was burned one too many times buying steaks there that were crap. I get all my beef from Costco now, they have excellent quality meats, the ribeyes and NY strips I buy there are way above Jewel meats. Jewel needs to up their game or the Chicago icon will lose customers and end up like Dominick’s.
We used to go “half-sies” on many Costco items, splitting with our good friend. Dual packages of things like catsup, and huge packs of TP, etc. We stock up on their coffee k-cups.
Their steaks are delicious but too thick for us.
Mmm, I can almost smell it now.
I’m with you on that. Jewel meat sucks. In Costco yesterday I saw a 58 oz pumpkin pie for $5,99. 20 oz. pumpkin pie at Jewel costs $7.29. Thieves. Albertson’s owns it this week but who knows about next week.
I tried those Costco chickens once and there was so much fat, globs and globs of fat on the chicken, I thought about taking it back, it was disgusting. Never again!
“There are two Chevron stations near me with prices similar to Costco or Sam’s Club, and they are closer.”
Costco: 2.26. Chevron: 2.44
Besides, Costco pumps are right next to the warehouse. Couldn’t be closer!
We raised chickens one time and I overfed them, not knowing what I was doing. They had a half inch layer of fat on them.
i think costco is #3 in usa for selling pizzas..
I checked mine - two Chevrons near me which are consistently low - $2.29. The Costco closest to me is currently $2.35.
I get 3 meals out of the rotisserie chicken. Sliced from the bird for dinner. Dark meat for a chicken salad. and the rest goes in the pot with some carrots, celery garlic and onion for a nice chicken noodle soup.
“I checked mine - two Chevrons near me which are consistently low - $2.29. The Costco closest to me is currently $2.35.”
I would have to see that to believe it.
yes we clean it really well before we cook it...we take off the tiny pieces of meat between the bones and set it aside to add back into the chicken soup when we make it. Then we cook the carcass on low all night long and then strain it in the morning...makes FABULOUS chicken noodle soup!
They’ve held that price for over 20 years. Amazing.
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