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It's only $4.99. But Costco's rotisserie chicken comes at a huge price
CNN ^ | Oct 112019 | Nathaniel Meyersohn

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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To: Captain Compassion

Yes, the $1.50 hot dog is always good!


141 posted on 10/16/2019 6:46:54 AM PDT by entropy12 (You are either for free enterprise or for government price fixing. Can't be for both as convenient.)
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To: entropy12
I love that hot dog deal. I get it every time. I think it's the onions I grind on top. I want one of those onion grinders for home.

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.

142 posted on 10/16/2019 6:57:38 AM PDT by TontoKowalski (You can call me "Dick.")
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

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


143 posted on 10/16/2019 7:23:42 AM PDT by sheana
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To: Destroyer Sailor

Buying your gas at Costco more than saves the annual fee.


144 posted on 10/16/2019 10:35:58 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: entropy12

“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.


145 posted on 10/16/2019 1:53:59 PM PDT by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
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To: Vendome
But the contracts are a “letdown,” she said. “It’s still far from good enough to justify the kind of investments that farmers have to put into it” because their barns can’t be repurposed for other uses if their operations disappoint.

Honey, are you being forced at gunpoint to sign one?

146 posted on 10/16/2019 2:53:34 PM PDT by gogeo (The left prides themselves on being tolerant, but they can't even be civil.)
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To: BigpapaBo
We buy 4 at a time. One for me, one for the Mrs and one each for my two teens. We call it costco crack chicken...

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.

147 posted on 10/16/2019 2:59:24 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: Justa

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.


148 posted on 10/16/2019 6:39:24 PM PDT by entropy12 (You are either for free enterprise or for government price fixing. Can't be for both as convenient.)
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To: dennisw

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).


149 posted on 10/16/2019 6:41:47 PM PDT by entropy12 (You are either for free enterprise or for government price fixing. Can't be for both as convenient.)
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To: Balding_Eagle
That’s a 30% reduction in only 40 years.
A lot of Freepers complain about food with a full mouth AND pocketbook.
Alas....so many want today's wages, but with yesterday's prices

150 posted on 10/16/2019 8:36:42 PM PDT by Stand Watch Listen
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To: Bonemaker

I prefer to cook it myself. Doesn’t take much work, cost less and always tasty.


151 posted on 11/06/2019 5:02:09 AM PST by NorseViking
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