On 8/19/2018 7:22 AM, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
>
> I guess that Costco is aiming to place itself with the ranks of Whole
> Foods/Amazon. Almost everything in my store has become organic or
> trendy. Most of the meat is not yet organic however. Yesterday I
> wanted to get some frozen corn -- their frozen corn is very good and
> sweet and I had waited from all other shopping venues to get the
> Costco good stuff. Next to the frozen peas where the frozen corn
> should be was -- riced cauliflower! Swallowing my disappointment I
> trundled on through the frozen section and my eye was caught by two
> kinds of cauliflower crust pizza and a bag of organic burritos. There
> are many other examples around my store of regular items being dropped
> in favor of new diet trends. Apparently the store is going low
> gluten in addition to organic. I really don't care what other people
> eat but I am disappointed that in order to capture that market my
> store at least is dropping shelf space for items that I have always
> bought there.
> The Costco men's T-shirts were always an outstanding value. I was
> looking for them yesterday. The store carried 4 different brands of
> T-shirts all in the same sizes. The Costco brand was 6 shirts for
> approximately $12. The other brands ranged from 3 or 4 for $14-19.
> The Costco brand came in medium and large. The boxes clearly stated
> that additional sizes were available at Costco.com. I checked
> Costco.com. The sizes carried there were small and XXXL. It was
> stated there that additional sizes were available at the warehouse
> stores. It looks to me as though Costco is planning to discontinue
> their T-shirt brand. I suppose the excellent value men's jeans will
> be next. BTW, although packaged to look exactly like the Johnsonville
> bratwurst, the new Kirkland bratwurst is not a good substitute, it
> lacks flavor.
> Also, Costco has discontinued the Kirkland brand 325 mg aspirin. Only
> Bayer is now available.
> I've begun comparison pricing goods, brands, etc. at other stores and
> looking at what my Costco has dropped I find that aside from gasoline,
> the spring garden shop and the rotisserie chicken, there really is no
> reason for me to shop there any longer.
> Janet US
>


I noticed the undesirable trend re food fads at Costco, starting with
all things organic (i.e. more expensive). Look on the bright side - if
this keeps up, there will soon be Costco knockoff chain, emulating the
good, old Costco. I hope.