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Sure but that's a valid trade. Same with their rotisserie chicken it's a genuinely good deal. It's there to make sure you have a membership, and they put it in the back of the store because you will inevitably Buy other things you see on the way there.
But as long as you are able to have a little bit of self-control and purchase things that you will actually use you can genuinely Save A Lot in bulk at Costco compared to other places. They make money because you shop mostly with them you save some money over constantly buying individual things that you use all the time.
Even if you didn't save money it's still more convenient to only need to go shopping like once every 3 weeks for bulk items once at Costco. So there's some time savings to be had which God damn do you need as much of that as possible these days
My only issue with Costco was I always had to go to another store also. Like yeah I can get a bunch of my groceries for a good price but the don't have these other things I also need...
Costco isn't really a place you go to every day, or even every week. Most people I know only go once a month at the most. You go to buy the big bulk items, and those last a while, weeks at a time usually.
Then you have the local grocery stores for daily and weekly things. Rotisserie chickens are at nearly every store, and from my experience they're all about the same size and price. Discounted ready to eat chickens aren't unique to Costco.
Yeah when I had a membership I just didn't like needing 2 stores. Like the paper towels be 50 cents cheaper but I need to drive 5 minutes each way and go to a whole other store just for 50 cents...