That's the genius of the CostCo concept. You come for the toilet paper and go home with the $1200 flat screen TV!
I buy Xmas and birthday presents for my grandchildren year round, often months ahead of time, at CostCo. Unlike Miles, what I see in the check-out lines around me is a huge amount of liquor, good cuts of beef and other edible luxuries -- definitely not diet for a small planet stuff. I'm kinda shocked at the amount of alcohol. BobW
> > Miles --- Carl Remick <carlremick at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Mirabile dictu, now we've gone from Wal-Mart's
> downscale dreariness to
> > > a nascent new business model: Costco's upscale
> meretriciousness. I
> > > see consumers going still further into hock to
> buy pretentious crap
> > > they don't need. Ah, bliss is it in this dawn
> to be alive!
> > >
> > > Carl
> > >
> > My wife's had a Costco membership for some time,
> and I can report from
> > trudging up and down the aisles there that the
> above is a
> > misrepresentation of the typical stuff people buy
> at the store. At the
> > Costco in Portland, I've never seen a $500 bottle
> of wine. On the other
> > hand, I have seen 36 roll packages of toilet
> paper, 12 lb blocks of
> > cheese, and 2 gallon bottles of ketchup. Buy in
> quantity, baby!
> >
> > Miles
>
> Hmm, then maybe that $500 wine price is for a
> 10-gallon bottle -- a real deal :)
>
> Carl
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