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