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Top Ten reasons to boycott Costco:

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Blah!

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Apr 4, 2006, 9:12:44 AM4/4/06
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Top Ten reasons to boycott Costco:
 
10) Do you really need a 180-oz can of tuna?
9) It's the only place you pay for the privilege of buying groceries.
8) Their express lane is for 75 items or less.
7) No other grocery store goes through your cart on the way to the parking lot.
6) The Dominion across the street has a liquor store attached.
5) There's no checkout in the back to let you discreetly purchase condoms.
4) Their propane smells.
3) The food samples they give out don't fill you up at all.
2) They don't carry everyday items like hard tack, jam jams and salt riblets.
1) Because they listened to Paul Watson, damn it, and took a Newfoundland and Labrador product off their shelves.

Bill

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Apr 4, 2006, 9:26:40 AM4/4/06
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Not only It's the only place you pay for the privilege of buying groceries,
you also get to bring their garbage home with you. (empty boxes)


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Brad P

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Apr 4, 2006, 9:29:44 AM4/4/06
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Diss Costco all you want, but they do have some great deals there.

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Apr 4, 2006, 9:40:56 AM4/4/06
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"10) Do you really need a 180-oz can of tuna?"

Or, "Do you really need a six-pack of hockey sticks?"

With the exception of some big ticket items that you might stumble
upon, I think you have to be a retail outlet or a family of 25 in order
to make most of their "deals" worthwhile. However, every time I go in
there (I'm not a member but I sneak in with others) I am totally taken
by the whole consumer spectacle of it. It is impossible for me to get
out of there without spending $100, even if I went in there for one
$5.95 item only.

Brenda

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Apr 4, 2006, 9:57:31 AM4/4/06
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I love it!

Devils Advocate

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Apr 4, 2006, 11:43:04 AM4/4/06
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"Brad P" <brad...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Diss Costco all you want, but they do have some great deals there.
>
Most often you only think your getting a deal. So research on a item, then
decide if it's really a deal. ie:electronics,appliances,etc


Devils Advocate

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Apr 4, 2006, 11:44:00 AM4/4/06
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"Brad P" <brad...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Diss Costco all you want, but they do have some great deals there.
>
It really ain't the deals, it's the fact that Costco often times sell
products are not available anywhere else.


newfiegal©

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Apr 4, 2006, 11:51:22 AM4/4/06
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True that you might not always be getting the best deals on the food
but for stuff like CDs and books there are not many places that you can
get them any cheaper than Costco.

As for products that are not available anywhere else it is true that
Costco has some products that others don't as well. For instance take
the soft drinks. I can't drink anything with aspartame in it but can
drink Splenda. Costco's brand of cola soft drinks is the only one that
has splenda in it so that's where I go to buy them.

Devils Advocate

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Apr 4, 2006, 12:00:34 PM4/4/06
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"newfiegalŠ" <loveho...@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
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> True that you might not always be getting the best deals on the food
> but for stuff like CDs and books there are not many places that you can
> get them any cheaper than Costco.

I agree, a NF soft cover book that sells for 10.95 to Costco, sells for
16.95 elsewhere. Definitely shop there for books, however, electronics are
often time ancient.


drumh...@hotmail.com

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Apr 4, 2006, 1:53:46 PM4/4/06
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Why would anyone shop where you have
to pay an admission fee? I cant see their prices
being that much lower than sale prices at
other stores.

Carter

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Apr 4, 2006, 2:29:16 PM4/4/06
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drumh...@hotmail.com wrote:
> Why would anyone shop where you have
> to pay an admission fee?

Nobody would. Costco does not charge an admission fee. You have
to buy a membership to shop there.

I cant see their prices
> being that much lower than sale prices at
> other stores.
>

I can. I see it every time I go there. Their regular prices are
about the same as sale prices in other stores. I bought an
executive membership and, on the same day, purchased two 19 inch
LCD computer monitors. I saved more than the price of the
membership (compared to what other stores were asking for the
same monitors) on that purchase alone and got a percentage of my
purchase back in the mail several weeks later in the form of a
gift certificate.

Now, if you are only going to Costco to buy the family groceries
you are probably not saving much.

Carter

Greg

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Apr 4, 2006, 3:16:22 PM4/4/06
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The food at Costco is easily some of, if not THE best food you are going to
find in this place. I don't mind paying a few bucks a year for the
privilege of gettin a better quality of food. As for taking their garbage
home with you... I guess it's better to let them throw out the boxes, and
giving you a few plastic bags to take home with you?

Greg


newfiegal©

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Apr 4, 2006, 3:22:06 PM4/4/06
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Agree with you for the most part on the groceries. The electronics,
books, and CDs are much cheaper down there than they are anywhere else.
Even with my Chapters discount card (which has now gone up to $25.00
per year over the $20.00 that I paid last year for it and now they
don't even give you a $5.00 discount for every $100.00 spent there like
they used to). I'd still get the book that I wanted for about $5.00
less at Costco than I would at Chapters or Coles. And if anyone were
to say that I'd save that in gas most of the time I go to Costco with
someone else anyway so it's no loss to me.

Thomas Clancy

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Apr 4, 2006, 3:50:03 PM4/4/06
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On 4 Apr 2006 10:53:46 -0700, drumh...@hotmail.com did etch in
stone:

>Why would anyone shop where you have
>to pay an admission fee?

It's a membership (semantics, I know). However, they have awesome
fresh food, baked goods etc.. and unique items for great prices that
you don't find anywhere else. They also have one of the best
no-hassle/ return policies around. I've been a member just over 10
years, and my savings have always paid for my membership. I also love
the wide aisles, large carts etc... makes for a more enjoyable
shopping experience. My only complaint is the waiting period in the
line-ups. Not really that long, when you think about it, but does
look nasty visually when you see all the people :)

>I cant see their prices
>being that much lower than sale prices at
>other stores.

That's because, clearly, you don't shop there.

Regards,
Thomas

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darryl

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Apr 4, 2006, 4:09:11 PM4/4/06
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Brad P wrote:
> Diss Costco all you want, but they do have some great deals there.
>


diss??????

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i love it

hahahahaha

thanks
Darryl

David

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Apr 4, 2006, 7:51:16 PM4/4/06
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I was told today by a VERY reliable source, the reason the seal oil was removed was not a boycott of the seal product, but simply that it does not sell well.  This was the 4th time they had attempted to carry seal-oil, and it never sold well.
 
Due to public requests they are returning the seal oil to the shelves this week.  If it still does not sell, it will again be removed, just like every other product they sell.
 
And I believe it to be true that Seal oil was not sold at other Costco stores, just the local one.
 
All of the "brew-ha-ha" about this was simply an attempt by the anti-sealing lobby to politicise a normal business decision to stop carrying a non-selling product.
 
 
 
David
 

Brenda

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Apr 4, 2006, 8:23:42 PM4/4/06
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"All of the "brew-ha-ha"..."
 
Which they could have avoided if they had simply denounced The Sea Shepherd Society's announcement as false and exposed Paul Watson for the liar that he is.
 

Chris

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Apr 4, 2006, 11:07:14 PM4/4/06
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0) The wide carts/hoards of people.

I hate going in there when it's busy. Its extremely difficult to get
around. Saturdays are the worst, and don't even mention christmas time.

newfiegal©

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Apr 4, 2006, 11:17:23 PM4/4/06
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Most stores are like that at those times that you mentioned

Chris

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Apr 5, 2006, 6:19:27 AM4/5/06
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Yea, but the cart arnt as big at other stores. Those things at costco
should require a lisence.

Carter

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Apr 5, 2006, 9:26:43 AM4/5/06
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LOL! All of that is true, maybe even more true, for all other
stores.

Carter

Carter

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Apr 5, 2006, 9:28:03 AM4/5/06
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Chris wrote:
> Yea, but the cart arnt as big at other stores.

Neither are the aisles.

Carter

newfiegal©

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Apr 5, 2006, 10:41:37 AM4/5/06
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True. I wish they'd have the smaller carts for people who are buying
big things.
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