/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Is this hotdog as good as I've heard?

Also, its gona be hard to beat that, they sell it at a loss. Same with their pre-made chicken.

>>10857221
How about eating a meal in front of the computer without seeing this thread reposted every day? That sounds like a pretty good deal.

>>10857221
You still have to pay the 50 or whatever the minimum membership is to even get in so it's really $51.50

>>10857298
That's like saying you need HBO go in order to watch GoT.

>>10857298
but thats for an entire year. After comparing their prices to similar chains though, the only reason to get a membership is because of the hot dog deal.

>>10857298
The costco by me doesn’t card to get in, only out

>>10857221

>>10857311
Wait, so I can go and get the hotdog deal without a membership?

>>10857327
Some people have said they will stop you, but in my experience with indoor costco foodcourts they won't. In fact when I moved I had never seen an indoor one and the card checker told me to go in the exit.

>>10857327
Yes, they specifically don't card you if you tell them you're going to food court. Food court takes cash/card (some only cash) but they never card you. You can eat at a Costco without a membership.

>>10857265

>>10857327
No they only card at checkout, you need the card to shop not for their wieners or chicken/carne asada bakes or pizza.

>>10857221
Look at that smug little hot dog sitting snarkily in between those onions and relish. Sitting there knowing, KNOWING it's not just ANY hot dog. It's a Kirkland Signature brand sausage. 1/4 pound all beef or polish hot dog for a buck fifty? Of course it knows it's the best deal around. It sees you there looking over the menu as if you had any other choice in the matter. Even without the 20 oz. soda (with refill) it knows it's still just plain irresistible.

>>10857322
>using a clickbait "you won't believe X about Y" YouTube video as a source

>>10857895
>posting jack
>criticizing anyone else for anything whatsoever

Also you're an idiot if you don't think they're a loss-leader.

>>10857932
If you use your brain power and the skills you've hopefully learned in school to use this so called "search engine" you can find they dont lose money on them. It's okay, I understand the age of brainlet retards thinking click bait is a viable information source.

>“By having the discipline to say, ‘You are not going to be able to raise your price. You have to figure it out,’ we took it over and started manufacturing our hot dogs. We keep it at $1.50 and make enough money to get a fair return.”

https://425business.com/costco-ceo-craig-jelinek/

>tfw my costco just removed the polish dog and put the acai bowl in its place

>>10857951
>reading comprehension

The article all but calls it a loss-leader.

>>10857327
It doesn't seem the same across all locations. Sometimes you'll get stopped, sometimes you won't. Someone said it varies by state but I'm not sure.

>>10857251
Their hotdogs aren't great its just cheap. Better than an Ikea dog that's for sure. It taste like a decent hot dog you can make at home on the grill or by boiling.

>>10857327
I remember when I was younger the food court was considered completely separate from the store itself, so you could go in and get a hotdog or whatever and you wouldn't need a membership. No idea if that's how stores still do it but that always seemed fair

>>10857951
this picture makes me uncomfortable

>>10858016
>No-child-left-behind cleetus can't read and digest a simple article

Its almost like it explained the steps they took to make the $1.50 hotdog not a loss leader any more

>>10857462
You can also use the pharmacy without a membership and in a lot of states, you can also buy alcohol.

>>10858058
They explained how it was a loss leader but they made it cheaper for them to keep it a loss leader. What the fuck do you think, "we keep it at $1.50 and make enough money to get a fair return" means?

>>10857265
>having a meal in front of the computer
Your life sounds sad.

>>10858067
not if you live in a retarded leftist nigger state that bans chains form selling alcohol in order to prop up shitty overpriced, crime-breeding liquor stores everywhere

>>10857951
Imagine getting this worked up over a useless piece of trivia about a hot dog. Yikes, bro.

>>10858075
Not only do you post click bait videos as a source, but you are a ESL faggot

>>10858102
I feel for you anon. God I hate the ABC stores in Virginia, it's hard to find one I feel safe going to, any time of the day.

>>10858111
>you are a ESL faggot

Speak for yourself.

>>10858131
Click HERE to see the Top Ten Surprising Facts You Won't Believe About this Retard that Keeps Posting

>>10858151
>gets rekt
>resorts to ad hominem

Every. Single. Time.

>>10858174
>click bait video that using quora as a source vs what the ceo said in a conference
>the former is more legitimate

Ok, now this is epic

>>10858198
You either legitimately don't speak English or are just trolling.

>>10858208
>still can't understand the article
>thinks Costco will invest hundreds of millions of dollars to build their own factories for hotdogs to still lose money
>thinks Costco would increase the size of their in-house hotdogs if they would lose money selling it
>doesn't understand they are doing the same thing with their rotisserie chickens
>is actually this fucking stupid

>>10858249
>to still lose money

They aren't losing money. Do you even know what a loss-leader is?

>>10858249
>making all those "points" and thinking CostCo spend hundreds of million on hotdog manufacturing facilities
.

>>10858270
???
You seriously think multiple hot dog factories wouldn't be that much when one chicken factory is 300 mill? This board is unrecognizable from just a few years ago

>>10857221

>>10857221
I do not eat hot dogs.

>>10859828
Thanks so much for the worthless contribution.

>>10859854
When roasties get pms

>>10857895
(food court employee)

The Food Court is THE biggest loss leader. The food court normally loses money just on the food cost itself. That does not count the labor of employees and other overhead. In fact, if the food court were to make money then that puts up a red flag at corporate. We are told that the money charged to customers for the membership fees, all of it, is what is used to compensated for the losses. So the membership fees are ONLY used for the food court.

Americans sure eat shitty food

>>10859854
Processed "meats" combine the cruelty of meat with the chemical poisons of "fa(s)t food"

It seems dependents can't handle this awkward truth

>>10857327
Probably depends on the employee at the time.

Just get a cosco membership one time, keep the card and use it after it expires for free deals on food.

Or better yet just make a fake cosco card, not like they'll check it

>>10857251
They are well sized. It may sound bad but: it gives a beef aftertaste almost hours after eating it.

>>10860365
And? It brings in customers so that loss is bullshit. It's just a way to cheat on taxes.

>>10860679
anon I literally don't even know how to begin explain to you why that's retarded, just end your life now, it'll be easier for all of us

>>10860702
>cites a random user's post on quora as a source
>calls other people retarded and that they should kys

>>10857221
Too bad they changed the buns to supplement rising prices. They are way too gummy now but whatever I'll still fucking eat it.

>>10858286
If your trying to argue it isn't a loss leader, you're retarded.

>mfw somebody got this baited into debating with an idiotic troll for this long

>>10858286
It is a loss-leader. A loss-leader is a product that a company keeps around despite not making profit on it directly because it allows them to make a larger profit in other areas.

Unlimited Soup, Salad, and Breadsticks at Olive Garden for $8.99!

>>10860679
When their deal with Coca-Cola was set to increase the price, Costco opted to sign with Pepsi in 2013, ensuring that their trademark $1.50 price sticker would be kept intact.

>>10860843
When California recently enacted a soft drink tax that would have raised the consumer's cost, Costco locations in the state switched the combo to include Diet Pepsi. (Diet drinks are exempt from the law.)

>>10857265
/thread

>>10857221
I can't
I had their cheeseburger for lunch today. It's bretty tasty

>>10857251
Don't they just use ingredients/food that are going to go bad or past their expiration date anyway?

>>10861149
I disagree. I want to stop eating after a hot dog and water, but to pay $9 to sit, wait, ask for more, and tip them at the end. It's jut excruciating cringe.

>>10860938
>>10860888

Holy shit just stop. You clearly don't understand what the fuck loss leader means.

>>10861500
>A loss leader is a pricing strategy where a product is sold at a price below its market cost to stimulate other sales of more profitable goods or services.

>CostCo makes a loss on their food sales but the profit is more than made up for it on other areas.

>>10861500

>>10861513
Could a Competitor sue?
Unfair+Sales+Acts+Laws

>>10857251
The dog is okay, the bun is shit

>>10861536
No, because it would have to show that it's doing so on purpose to deliberately push people out of business rather than just trying to remain competetive.

Ie, a company prices everything i has at 5% of market value for a year and drives all busieness in a town out. Then puts prices back up. Nearly all businesses, to some extent, have loss-leaders. Milk in supermarkets is a major one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzMmcA1-J-E

>>10858100
Not him but if Im living alone why would I sit at the table or counter by myself in silence when I could watch something at my computer or TV?

>>10861586
TIL

>>10857221
That looks absolutely vile. I'd rather eat whatever the garbage is at whereever.

>>10861617
Dear god why would you eat a hot dog like that

>>10861703
*holds up spork*

>>10857221
2 white SIPS for $5

Oh look, it's another "retards debate about loss leaders" thread!

>>10857957
wtf they have acai bowls?? are they actually pure acai or are they smoothie bowl bull shit?

>>10857327

Go in through the exit door instead of the entrance, the food is after the registers anyway.

>>10860679
>And? It brings in customers so that loss is bullshit. It's just a way to cheat on taxes.
Take a business class you mong

dollar pizza here in ny

>>10857327
Walmart tried this shit with me. I can almost understand Sams/Costco, but don't let them do anything. I've NEVER returned a damn thing I've bought from there, so there's no reason I need a receipt with a silly highlighter streak on them.
They don't count how many items you have, they don't know the prices you have of each item, it's just a do-nothing job they give to useless fucks. If you were stealing, the cashier or self-checkout fucks would catch you first, they're the ones who might know a single thing about what you're buying or hiding.
Then, even if you do return an item, it's not like they have a little note that tells them "this fuck bought something on a wednesday but he has an ORANGE highlighter streak on his coupon, he obviously didn't buy this 58 case of hotdogs from us!"

The Cookout Tray with a milkshake.

>>10861985
>$5
Where do you live brah, I can get two for $3 here.

>>10862638
the huge ones brah 24oz 2 for $5