Costco

I usually make dip with a packet of soup mix powder, but I was out so I did the following and it turned out well -- and since it was mostly with Coscto items, I thought I'd post here.

All measurements were eyeballed, so change as you desire:

• 10oz frozen chopped spinach (cut spinach is too stringy, but if you want to use a food processor, you could use either, or substitute fresh spinach, kale, Yu Choy, Dau Miu, or anything else -- or skip completely)
• 1 cup mayonnaise (from the giant jug taking up all that refrigerator space)
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1-2 tsp "Better Than Bullion" "Seasoned Vegetable Base" ("Organic Reduced Sodium") soup starter -- this is in the spice aisle and any variety will do
• 1 tsp Kirkland "Organic No-Salt Seasoning" -- also in the spice aisle
• a chunk of a pepper, minced (Italian long hot) -- can sub red bell pepper, another hot pepper, or omit
• 2-3 fresh garlic cloves, minced (or skip if you don't love garlic)

Optional stuff you might like: chives/scallions/red onion, goat cheese, artichoke hearts, chopped mushrooms, sun-dried tomatoes, or go traditional and fry up a good sized onion until it is brown and caramelized to make more of a traditional 'french onion' dip.

Directions:

1. In a small mixing bowl, microwave frozen spinach until warm, then lightly squeeze out excess water. It should be damp (to absorb the no-salt spice mix), but not so wet that the dip becomes soupy. If using a fresh veg, cook as desired.

2. Add No-Salt Seasoning and Better Than Bullion to vegetable and mix together. Taste to ensure a bold flavor (the flavor will be softened by the dip base, but also bloom a bit as the dehydrated bits absorb moisture).

3. Add garlic and fresh bell/chili/long-hot pepper, and any optional items you desire. Mix. If you are using a food processor, this is a good time to pulse everything together ... but you can also wait until the end if you need more bulk to mix properly.

4. Add the sour cream and mayonnaise. Stir together. Add optional ingredients as desired. Refrigerate for an hour. Note: You can it serve immediately, but it is weird to have warm dip for potato chips.

Cascade Platinum is my favourite dishwasher detergent. I've been using it for years (https://cascadeclean.com/en-us/products/cascade-platinum-actionpacs-dishwasher-detergent-fresh-scent/)

In the last week, my local costco warehouse and costco.ca stopped providing Cascade Platinum. Instead, they're still selling Cascade Power Clean in green box (https://www.costco.ca/cascade-power-clean-dishwasher-detergent-actionpacs%2c-115-count.product.100483144.html) and they added a new product to the shelf Cascade Platinum Plus (https://www.costco.ca/cascade-platinum-plus-actionpacs%2c-81-count.product.4000230558.html)

I've tried the power green one, and I'm not satisfy with its quality: the smell of the food may remain in my dishwasher. The Platinum Plus is much more expensive than Platinum.

Does Costco changed the product line at your warehouse?

How @costco #Employees Came Together To #Rescue A #Colleague

https://www.sunnyskyz.com/good-news/5283/How-Costco-Employees-Came-Together-To-Rescue-A-Colleague

The dedicated #employees at a #Costco store near #Cleveland, #Ohio, are being hailed as #heroes for their #quickthinking and #compassion, which ultimately saved the life of a fellow #coworker.

Has anyone had any luck requesting items?

I normally shop at a Costco near my home but my family resides in another part of our state and they go to a different one. I've noticed that their Costco gets way cooler items (jagarico, black thunder candy, like air puffcorn, etc) and I'm tempted to try and request some of them. How do I get these at my store?

Does anyone know when Costco will be getting the boxes of Chex for making Chex mix? (Has the three varieties needed in one box.)

The main allegation is that Costco lets Meta collect communications related to health care from its website, violating HIPAA and effectively acting as a wiretap of the customer.

The first lawsuit was news earlier in October, and the new one from the 25th appears to be similar. Links to first suit:

• https://www.classaction.org/news/costco-uses-tracking-tech-to-disclose-online-pharmacy-customers-health-info-to-third-parties-class-action-alleges
• https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/costco-lawsuit-customer-health-information-meta-18420718.php

I got the "Spooky Chocolate Bundt" cake from my local Costco and absolutely hated it. To me, it wasn't chocolatey and the over-sweet icing tasted off. My better half thought it was delightful, so it'll get eaten but not by me. If you've tried it, please let us know which of us is right.

P.S. the only link I could find with an image was the linked yahoo piece.

Just got my renewal rate for my car insurance and it’s a massive increase from $450/6month to $750/6month. Anyone else get this kind of increase? I’ve got a clean driving record and can’t see what this would be coming from. They list vague market factors but seriously?

When posting in this community (costco at lemmy.world), if I post with Language=English, when I clicked “Reply”, the little circle on the button had been spinning and never finished.

If I left the Language unselected, or manually set to Undetermined, then my post could went through.

Is there any mod settings at this community?

I was very surprised after waiting all year to see them drastically cut the price a day after our summer tourist season ended. From $69 to $39 for a 2019, 2020, and 2021 cask strength releases 375ml. It has had the asterisk on the full price tag for awhile now and I was hoping this day would come. About a full pallet left when I got mine.

OK, yesterday at Costco, pallets of Christmas. Not just Christmas stuff but horrible looking decorations. Also, anyone else think Costco is becoming Sam’s Club with pallet after pallet of food products that are all sweets and carbs? More and more I have to beeline to products I need, close my eyes and get tf out. Anyone else feeling this?

Some of these numbers are shocking. Who knew that Taiwan has 14 Costcos, whereas France only has 2 and New Zealand only 1?

Quite naive of me, but I assumed Costco prices were Costco prices. I needed gas, and was going to hit my local Costco--but realized there was one just a couple of miles away on my way home.

Filled up and then checked Gas Buddy. My "home" Costco was $4.99/gal and I had just paid $5.13/gal just 8 miles away.

Not a huge amount of money wasted, but sometimes it's the principle of the thing, you know? 😏

Can't buy anything stronger than beer and wine at Costco where I come from. Can't even get it delivered. It's un-American, I tell you!

I do not understand why people aren't satisfied with the uppermost (open) case of whatever when there's a large stack (and, let's face it--everything is stacked at Costco). I watch them struggle to lift 4 or 5 cases so they can pick one box of raisins from the 5th level down. I get if there was one left on top that was crushed or some other moron opened...but, really?

The other one is the family of 5 that walk next to each other (think front line of an NFL team) while pushing the cart as slowly as possible down the 'wrong' side of the aisle.

Tragically, I moved and went from living 2 blocks from a Costco to 50 miles. Mainly I miss inexpensive cases of seltzer water… I went to a local grocery store and they were offering 8 cans of seltzer for $4.99, while normally I purchased a case of 24 for $5.70 at Costco. Back in the balmy halcyon days of May, I would walk to my local Costco with a dolly and return with a case of V8, some weird sparkly water from Washington, spinach, mushrooms, Diet Pepsi, Kettle chips, and much more…. and now, the memories are fading into the margins of history.

I am also missing the Kirkland hummus. I could use a vehicle and drive 52.3 miles (or so) to Costco, but it seems slightly unreasonable.

Just wondering how severe my Costco addiction is

Anyone seeing this in their warehouse too?

What days do the warehouses run samples? I've seen it on Friday sometimes but not on Sunday.

Has anyone else noticed that Costco changed the size of the rice bags? They used to be 50lb, but it appears that they're all 25lb now. Also, the cost per lb seems to have gone up.

I upgraded to Executive a couple of years ago and got this very classy black card. Do they look the same everywhere? I assume the URL printed on the card varies, but what about everything else?

New exec member here; anyone have any particularly good or bad experiences with Costco's car insurance? I'll be getting a quote soon, but any comments on the service/coverage? General Costco protips welcome as well :)

Hi all. My partner saw online about Costco having big packs of Morningstar Farms Chik Patties/Grillers/etc. but we haven't been able to find it at our local Costco in Pittsburgh. Wondering if this a regional thing or if it might be an equivalent to Aldi's "Special Finds"? Any input would be appreciated!

I got a box last year for like $20, haven't seen them in-store for a while now.

I know some of you are interested in what Costco is like outside of the USA. Here's the UK food court menu as of my visit today.

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Menu items with their approx. US dollar equivalents:

• Double Chicken Fillet Sandwich: £4.29 ($5.49)
• Chicken Bake with Bacon: £3.79 ($4.85)
• Korean BBQ Beef Bake: £4.49 ($5.74)
• Aberdeen Angus Cottage Pie: £3.49 ($4.47)
• Jacket Potato with Baked Beans, Cheese, Beef Chilli, and/or Tuna: £2.49 ($3.19)
• 1/4lb+ all beef hot dog with bottomless 22oz soda: £1.50 ($1.92)
• Pizza Slice (BBQ Chicken, Five Cheese, or Pepperoni): £1.99 ($2.55)
• 18" Whole Pizza: £9.99 ($12.78)
• Pizza Family Bundle (18" Pizza, 18" Garlic Bread, 2x Garlic & Herb Dip, 2l Pepsi Max): £13.99 ($17.90)
• Gelato (3 scoops served in a waffle cone, can't quite make out the flavours, sorry): £2.79 ($3.57)
• Strawberry & White Chocolate Sundae: £2.29 ($2.93)
• Vanilla Soft Serve Ice Cream: £1.99 ($2.55)
• Mango Smoothie: £2.50 ($3.20)

What's your favorite easy/lazy meal prep with mainly Costco ingredients? Mine is a creamy chicken pesto pasta:

• Cook chicken breast in a pan while boiling short pasta
• Simmer together heavy cream and Kirkland pesto
• Combine cooked pasta, chicken, sauce, sun dried tomatoes (that huge jar in the sauce aisle), and mix in gorgonzola/blue cheese if you have it. Serve with parmesan and pepper.

I was very interested in the differences between Business Centre and Warehouses, and I had a chance to visit a nearby Business Centre a few weeks ago. I'd like to share some of my impressions about it.

1. Bigger than warehouse, more SKUs. There is no Coca Cola Zero in all the Costco Warehouses I've visited, but I could find them in Business Centre. There are also more electronics to choose, like fan at various size.

2. Choosing meat is so cool (literally) The meat is put on open shelves in a room with low temperature (like diary room). After making my selection, I had to rush out of it

3. No gas station, No food court But their is still rotisserie chicken at 7.99! Sadly that my family doesn't like that.

4. The location is okay for me. Luckily, this Business Centre is not that far away from my home. Depending on the traffic, it cost me about 40 minute for one-way driving.

TLDR There is not significant difference between Business Centre and Warehouse, as I had expected before

HOW DO THEY EVEN DO IT, ITS INCREDIBLE

Asking about this community's rule: Is this for costco US? Posts about Costco in other countires are welcome or not?

Thank you.

Anyone else disappointed recently with the quality of this fish?

It has fine texture, but the flavor just isn't great. Maybe frozen too long?

Seems like an obligatory post! What's on your shopping list every time you go?

Personally, I'm a huge fan of:

Kirkland Irish cream

Avocados - nowhere else ever has them as good!

Shepherd's pie

Ravioli lasagna

Sanders chocolate caramels

... And like a million other things.