costco is a wonderful place. But fir nire managable amounts trader joe's is
excellent too.
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> That sounds like stupid greed and selfishness. If people shop rationally,
> there should be no shortages. When I go to the supermarket, things are almost
> normal. Yesterday they had no Brussels sprouts which I happened to want for
> dinner, but that was the extent of my deprivation.
I think the concept of "Costco" is probably a little foreign to some
people. Also, the culture is a bit different too. There is no picking
up just one or two of something for tonight's meal. Everything you get
will get divided out for multiple meals. It's a bulk purchase thing.
You can't go into Costco without spending $200, but you only need to
do that once in a while. Unlike the local grocer, you can't just pick
up one of something, it all comes in bulk.
When I say that we can survive for the next month, it's because we've
got two large containers of Peanut Butter, two large boxes of
Cheerios, an entire pork loin divided up into meal-sized portions, 20
cans of Campbells soup, a brick of cheese, 10 bowls of Pho, a box of
shrimp, and enough soup veggies to choke a horse. And a case of V8
juice, a box of 10 tubes of Ritz crackers and five pounds of butter.
Oh, and Almond Milk, Bisquick, tins of mini hotdogs, and five pounds
of rice.
Basically, every time we buy an item at Costco, we are actually buying
months' or even a year's worth of that item. It's not greed and
selfishness, it's just how the system works. For most things. But we
have the space too.
AK Schnozz
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