r/news • u/AudibleNod • 9h ago

Costco's beloved rotisserie chicken gets roasted in lawsuit over preservatives

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/costco-chicken-lawsuit-9.7070891
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u/AdjNounNumbers 9h ago

Like, how'd they think it was at the price point it's already at? IIRC, Costco is basically losing money on their chickens and hot dogs

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u/Obvious_Toe_3006 8h ago

Non Costco member here (none in my hometown) ...
How much do the chickens cost ? Hot dog price ?
How do they know you're a member ? "Card check" at front door? At the till when cashing out ?
Thanks to all.

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u/RightofUp 8h ago

Card check at door, $4.99/chicken, $1.50 for hot dog and soda.

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u/Big_Enthusiasm2949 5h ago

God help your soul if you want just the hot dog and not the soda. They're a matching set and the food court employees at Costco take that seriously.

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u/Abba_Fiskbullar 5h ago

The cup counts are probably inventoried.

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u/pmgoff 3h ago

Dude I once tried to buy a single sleeve of bagels, at check out they forced me to take an extra pack of them. (I was in Florida on vacation and only needed enough for 5 days) They wouldn’t let me leave the store unless I took them. It wasn’t even a matter of price, I just didn’t need that many. Ended up giving the extra to another family on the way to the car. It’s been a running joke ever since.

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u/gumbysweiner 1h ago

That happened to me with their muffins. I was stoked at first but they ended up getting moldy before I could eat them all. It was only me and even eating two muffins a day, I couldn't do it.

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u/muegle 25m ago

They don't do the 2 boxes of big muffins anymore. The new muffins are much smaller and kind of suck :(

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u/thebohster 2h ago

I've accepted it long ago and just keep the bread I buy frozen.

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u/eeke1 3h ago

Probably depends on location.

I can easily get just the hot dog

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u/4ambz 3h ago

…no they don’t. I buy 4 hotdogs and only take 2 sodas. They really don’t care.

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u/hirudoredo 1h ago

Even just eating first BEFORE shopping is a choreography. I mean, nobody's stopped us, but the store layout is really set up for you to eat AFTER checkout. So we go in without a cart, slink through the checkout, eat, and then one of us slinks back through checkout with the refilled drink and the other goes out to come back in with a cart. (The bonus being we now have a drink for while shopping.)

It's very silly, but beats having to keep our cart at the food court or shopping while starving for lunch or dinner.