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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Well, I was trying to be funny at Pepsi’s expense.
Those chickens double as a car air freshener.
Waiting......
Suppression of chicken eating to force people to farting cows.
funny you say that. I was in Walmart last week (Sam’s Club right next door) ...I asked the girl at the rotisserie chicken counter in walmart if Walmarts chicken was the same as Sam’s (I assumed it was because owed by same group). She said Sam’s Clubs chicken is larger and better tasting. I had always kind of thought that but thought it was just in my head but she said it to me.
More Communism will solve this.
Sam’s and Wal-Market sell rotisserie chicken for $5.
We love’m. Together, the wife and I eat a half chicken two nights in a row....comes out to a buck-twenty-five per meal per person. Darn good chicken too.
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.
Sounds like it’s a fail already. .../s
Same goes for the Sam’s rotisserie chicken — all of the Meijer stores, Walmarts, and Family Fare (and some indie groceries) have rotisserie chicken, but by size they look like cornish hens next to the warehouse club versions.
after we eat it, we take the carcass and boil it down so we get an awesome broth for home made chicken noodle soup the next day :)
The Surprising Reason Costco’s Rotisserie Chicken Will Never Cost More Than $4.99
September 10, 2018
By Daisy Nichols
https://www.thedailymeal.com/cook/reason-costco-rotisserie-chicken-price-never-change
My guess though is that Costco’s getting pilloried because of what happened a few years ago:
Costco execs turn tables on state Senate Democrats
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/gop/3203969/posts
Why Costco is going Republican — at least at home
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3204347/posts
Even the cleanup is painless. Toss the bones back into the foil-lined bag with the dirty napkins, roll it up tight, and toss it into the kitchen trash.
My first rotisserie chicken was back in the mid 1980s at a place called Boston Chicken. This would eventually become Boston Market in the late 1990s and grew into a giant national chain. But when they were just Boston Chickens, in the Boston area, they were quite good. Then they got McDonaldized.
This article reminds I haven’t bought Costco rotisserie chicken in a while, I think I’ll pick one up tomorrow.....mmmmm.
Usually its 48 vs. 30 ounces.
Usually its 48 vs. 30 ounces.
In Chris Farley voice...
“And they got me to click on CNN. I’m so STUPID”
If you check gasbuddy.com, you can often find comparable low gas prices in your area. There are two Chevron stations near me with prices similar to Costco or Sam’s Club, and they are closer.
I’ve considered that. Generally though, I get “down and greasy” and go thru the carcass to get the little morsels of meat to feed the dogs and cat. They love some chicken too! I may just boil the carcass next time. There IS a lot of “flavor” left in them bones.
I buy the $5 chicken at our local Wegmans. Get about 6 meals out of it....and it’s delicious.
My wife makes chicken salad sandwiches with the left over chicken.Very tasty.
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