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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: Still Thinking

You’re correct, it’s not a statement. It was a comment and a personal preference.

I thoroughly dislike Pepsi products. Oddly enough, I find that I also don’t particularly care for the food in establishments where Pepsi products are the only choice in the fountain.


61 posted on 10/15/2019 4:30:08 PM PDT by DallasGal (Don't worry, I've fantasized your demise in ways that cause me to pray for myself)
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To: rintintin

I admit it’s difficult to pass up a rotisserie chicken. My local supermarket offers two different sizes, and the larger one is around $8. Being single and petite I get four dinners out of that.
Beats McD’s, and also beats turning my kitchen into a war zone.


62 posted on 10/15/2019 4:30:23 PM PDT by Buttons12
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To: entropy12

“Speaking of gadgets like TV & Laptops & kitchen gadgets, they seem to last for ever these days. Walmart, eBay are places to snap up bargains for those.”

Bought a Surface 6 bundle on sale. Saved almost $200.

Wife just bought an Ipad pro at $150 off the Apple price.


63 posted on 10/15/2019 4:32:00 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: entropy12

Bought at Costco


64 posted on 10/15/2019 4:34:31 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: Destroyer Sailor

Okay that is just stupid. Buy the executive membership and get a rebate percentage on what you spend. Buy your tires there and your car battery. Get your meat and butter and Keurig coffee. Toilet paper and dog food. Laundry detergent. You might not get a rebate big enough to cover the membership but it will be pretty close.


65 posted on 10/15/2019 4:34:50 PM PDT by webheart
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Anti capitalist anti meat etc.
Silly people that believe in starving masses.
You know the type.

So, Why did I click on CNN?

I dunno.

I gotta solve the puzzle of fixing stupid, no luck.


66 posted on 10/15/2019 4:37:28 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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To: entropy12

” the sizes of food items in Costco was too big for us.”

We freeze a lot. Lots of stuff is packaged into smaller sizes inside the big package.

Just the two of us. Walmart, Aldi’s for some veggies and Publix for their BOGO.


67 posted on 10/15/2019 4:40:48 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: entropy12

Costco gift cards for restaurants. $100 card for $89.


68 posted on 10/15/2019 4:42:49 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: entropy12
I can get the same type of Chicken at Walmart for not much more price.

Yabbut, you have to go into the walmart and have your senses assaulted by the walmartians...........

Our Costco is definitely a cut above the wm denizens.

69 posted on 10/15/2019 4:44:40 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: TexasGator

I hear them reindeer dogs are about 7 bucks. That true?


70 posted on 10/15/2019 4:45:32 PM PDT by waterhill (I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
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To: minnesota_bound

Which subsidies are those?


71 posted on 10/15/2019 4:50:33 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: TexasGator

Costco gift cards for restaurants. $100 card for $80.


72 posted on 10/15/2019 4:50:37 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: waterhill

“I hear them reindeer dogs are about 7 bucks. That true?”


73 posted on 10/15/2019 4:52:15 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: TexasGator

I have some fried chicken you can have for free. You pluck and you cook.


74 posted on 10/15/2019 4:52:22 PM PDT by oldasrocks (Heavily Medicated for your Protection.)
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To: rintintin

Oh brother


75 posted on 10/15/2019 4:54:26 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Democrats are worse than Communists)
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To: rintintin

ragging against Costco chickens is gonna lose CNN more viewers than even its ragging against PDJT!

There’s almost NOTHING more popular in America than Costco chickens!!!!!!!


76 posted on 10/15/2019 4:55:37 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not , born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: entropy12; minnesota_bound

Old data, but between 1969 to 2009 food costs dropped from 13.5% of disposable income to 9.5% of disposable income.

That’s a 30% reduction in only 40 years.

A lot of Freepers complain about food with a full mouth AND pocketbook.


77 posted on 10/15/2019 4:56:00 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: rintintin

Refuse to travel to Fake News, CNN; but will contribute the fact WalMart’s rotisserie chicken is an economical meal in itself and the chicken can be de-boned and the meat used in cooked chicken dishes: hot chicken salad, chicken sandwiches or tortillas, Mexican chicken, etc. WalMart now sells Popcorn Chicken which is delicious when eaten with Ranch Style Salad Dressing. A ‘big salad’ add Popcorn Chicken and Ranch Dressing to a bowl of salad makings and top with freshly prepared croutons: Ooh la la a fast and great meal.


78 posted on 10/15/2019 4:57:41 PM PDT by V K Lee ("VICTORY FOR THE RIGHTEOUS IS JUDGMENT FOR THE WICKED")
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To: rintintin
I'll have to try a Costco chicken sometime. My experience is with Publix in Palm Beach on my monthly visits to help my my mother. I never look at the weight or what they charge. Publix has a variety of seasonings and they are all pretty good.

ML/NJ

79 posted on 10/15/2019 4:58:59 PM PDT by ml/nj (eeter hope ther are no statue)
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To: SparkyBass

Scoldilocks!!!! Whaaaaaaas Uuuuuuuup!!!


80 posted on 10/15/2019 5:00:24 PM PDT by Batman11 ( The USA is not an ATM!)
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