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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Nice read.
Never been impressed by “local activists”, some are good - this guy seems a troublemaking loser.
BTW: what do producers do with that skin and fat they take out”
I want skin and fat in my chicken.
Cost of Costco membership two adults is not practical considering the quantities you have to by. Walmart is more reasonable.
I’ve NOT had the rotisserie chicken from COSTCO but the chicken salad is ADDICTIVE.
Yours, TMN78247
That’s pretty impressive considering they’ve got four dollars worth of salt in each one.
The gasoline discount is generally only about a nickel and sometimes less compared to non top tier stations here.
But before I buy the chicken someone says ‘WELCOME TO COSTCO, I LOVE YOU”..
“The rotisserie chicken that costs just $4.99.”
Naturally, it’s $5.99 in schitcago area, We are eating one tonight....it is underdone with a lot of red, juicy areas.
$9.95 for a honking big pizza with everything.
Back in college, I borrow someone’s Costco card to avoid the hassle the membership thingy, but the catch is I have to buy their cheap pizza..
Saw the headline then CNN and figured, before even reading a word, I’d have to go buy one or two.
GTH, ATT. And keep your filthy hands off my chicken.
CNN is ATT
Excess nitrogen from all that chicken poop, no doubt.
Chicken cost more because of fuel prices and taxes and corn subsidies.
Sam’s Club still has a Polish Dog and a choice of Coke or Pepsi in their fountain.. Plus they accept all credit cards
Read the ingredients. Rotiserie chickens are full of preservatives- like a hot dog.
The Costco chickens are easily two pounds heavier than the Walmart chickens and a great overall deal. There is a strong point made well down the article about the environmental impact of the immense factory farming operation needed to sell the chicken at the desired price. It’s a world of difference between living downwind from a grain farm and living downwind from a big chicken facility. Big chicken raising operations smell awful for a mile or more past their walls and create a lot of waste product that has to be disposed of safely.
Sams sells them too. These are perhaps the best food deal in America.
The person opposing them needs to be shot. Such a person needs not call themselves Americans
At Sam’s they cook 64 on two rotissaries at once and sometimes can’t keep up
Our experience has been that WM's chicken is about one pound lighter. I have seen some that almost look like quail.
” The horror, the horror ...”
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