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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Yes, the $1.50 hot dog is always good!
As for the chicken, we get one every time we're there. Day 1: Wife eats the legs and I get a generous breast serving. Day 2: Wife picks the bones clean and makes chicken taco. Day 3: Wife throws the bones in a pot and makes vegetable soup.
That's a lot of mileage out of a $5 ready-to-eat chicken.
I don’t like Costco. Father in law paid for our membership for many years until I told him....stop! I don’t use it. I have always gone to Smart & Final though. And then they built a brand new one about a mile away from me. Then they added online shopping through Instacart. Kind of sealed the deal for me. lol
Buying your gas at Costco more than saves the annual fee.
“I have traveled on 4 continents, and food is cheaper here in good ole USA than all civilized countries I have visited. And so long as Obesity is a huge problem, I have to laugh at “high food prices” here.”
Yeah, I donno man. You ever tried the shawarmas at Second Circle in Amman? The two guys work out of a 20’ conex off the sidewalk under shade. $5 gets you a bag of them with tzatziki sauce. They’re delicious. Also the Babylonian restaurant north of the Baghdad embassy has $4 rotisserie chickens in a rotating case on the sidewalk. Then there’s the Veranda restaurant in Manama, Bahrain. A four course meal for $12 with the freshest and best tasting vegetables ever. All these meals are cheaper, fresher and better tasting than what’s available in the US. Probably cuz they don’t have all the artificial stuff like American food.
Honey, are you being forced at gunpoint to sign one?
What I need is crispy chicken skin and breast meat that is edible, meaning not all dried out, though I go for the dark meat first.
Amman, Mumbai, Jakarta, Manilla,....Yeah I have been over the map visiting countries, and restaurants have 2 classes there. Very expensive and very cheap.
By civilized counties I was talking about the G10 countries, including Western Europe, USA, Canada, Japan, Australia. There you have a hi-courts to hand out fair justice and you don’t get arrested for religious reasons.
I am sorry to say this, and I speak bluntly, but I have not so many Obese people in any country like I see in USA.
And that includes Asian countries such as Bahrain.
I am the same, I go for the legs and thighs, my wife gets the breast meat (which is too dry and bland for me).
Alas....so many want today's wages, but with yesterday's prices
I prefer to cook it myself. Doesn’t take much work, cost less and always tasty.
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