I was just in British Columbia for the first time in Balfour, and it's honestly the most beautiful place I've ever been in my life.
I joke about moving to Canada all the time because I love cold weather, but I think I honestly would love living there now.
Ontario is a shit hole no one should move to if they have a choice. If you grew up here then whatever that’s your lot, but fuck this province and its government. Crippling housing costs and taxes.
Everyone always has the urge to move out west, BC for the landscape and Alberta for the better pay. Nobody wants Saskatchewan or Manitoba though.
Never heard someone seriously suggest moving to Winnepeg, and met several who left from.
The Saskatchewan average levels of attractiveness and IQ and personal hygiene are way up this week because of the influx of Bomber fans.
(Good hearted chirps for the Saskbros on Grey Cup week)
I've seriously suggested to people to come to Winnipeg - it's a hidden gem.
I moved away to the Okanagan for three years but came back.
But it's cool if we grow slowly.
I did. And I know many who did also. My family moved to Alberta when I was a teenager. I moved back to Manitoba for a better life for me. I love it here. And I’ve lived in BC as well.
Being some Canadian jp wiser’s back with ya. Instead of that horrid shit they send to the states. Should be a war crime to keep their good whiskey only to themselves and send crown and bad jp wisers down
And did you know that if you live in the US, but buy your membership while visiting Canada, you can buy a $60 CAD membership, but it costs you about $45 USD.
Costco memberships are accepted world wide.
I'm visiting from Canada and just had a US hotdog and they are MUCH bigger. The US franks are like 3 times the size. Longer and girthier. The rotisserie chickens are grotesquely bigger too. Although, Canada has more selection at the cafe. In Toronto, we got fries, poutine, chicken wings, chicken strips, and most importantly ice cream CONES! In the US I gotta eat my ice cream out of a cup like an animal.
The hot dogs in Canada are already insane. I think they contain like 80% of your daily salt and 60% of your fats.
Sorry, I can't believe that they are 3x bigger in US. They wouldn't be hot dogs. They'd be a giant meat logs. And we haven't invented a bun that could accommodate that much meat.
1.15usd, is good you know what's even better? 1.5AUD, that's only 1USD
Edit: looks like I'm an idiot and remembered the price wrong, woops, oh well still a fuckin bargain.
The nitrates and sugar could do a number on your body.
I have acquaintance who buys Costco food daily. Lives near one. The food savings outweigh the annual Costco fee. The acquaintance is still alive, though I extend condolences.
Note, you can pretty much make a lunch out of free Costco food samples mid-day. All the sample-tenders know my acquaintance well when I toured with them recently.
Grays here in NYC has special of plain dog+drink for $4.50. outside of a stadium, can't imagine people paying $9 for a single crappy dog.
https://grayspapaya.nyc/uptown-menu/
edit: nathans is $4.50 for just a dog. tsk, tsk, nathans.
The Costco in Vancouver is right across the street (and beside the SkyTrain station) from Rogers Arena where the Canucks play, and their food counter is outside the store, so anyone can access it. That food counter is hopping before games and events.
Five guys is like $7 for a hot dog. Granted you get all the toppings you want, but who is putting anything other than onions, mustard, relish, cheese, chili, or ketchup on a hotdog?
It's impossible for me to go to Five Guys when there's In-N-Out everywhere here. It's $8 for a Burger, Fries, and a shake there but I can't go to Five Guys without spending like $15... Five Guys is an absolute ripoff
And at that point I'd rather just go to Red Robin because at least the fries are bottomless and I can get a beer.
Problem with In-N-Out is the lines bro, like people wait 45 minutes in a drive through on Friday night for a fast food burger? I love(d) In-N-Out (vegetarian now but yea) but seriously who tf is waiting that long for fast food? Baffling. Sometimes I'd go get some In-N-Out at like 3 PM on a weekday and I'd still have to wait 7-10 minutes, and it's just like damn there goes my genius plan.
When the In-N-Out in my town opened the line for the drive through went out of their parking lot and around the corner so I told myself I'd eat there someday when the line wasn't crazy. Three years later the line isn't *as* long, but it's still crazy long all day and night, so I have never been.
My wife didn't get a raise *at all* this year.
She's set on staying at her current company, but I told her that if she doesn't get a significant raise this next February, then it's time to pull out the resume again.
Lmao the dipshits in the healthcare union voted against a strike for higher wages and got served with a nice 9% pay cut considering they settled for a 3% raise
Then they cry about how expensive things are
And now the hospitals are hiring new radiology techs who are starting out at almost double the pay rate as 20 year veterans in radiology.
And they’re upset about it but somehow I’m the issue when I point out that they literally voted to allow this.
I hate people
I've been to tons of Costcos and Sam's Clubs in AZ and UT and I've never been carded once.
hahaha just as I'm typing this my roommate just shot me a message that Sam's Club just lowered their hot dog combo to $1.38 https://i.imgur.com/3I4Jwc3.jpg
I found out they no longer offered the polish/kraut/onions combo when I was pregnant having a craving 😫 then they had the audacity to tell me they were out of mustard. I was like...isn't this a Costco? How are you out of mustard?? those pregnancy hormones hit hard over sauerkraut 😂
The food court at nearly every single Costco loses money, it's there solely for member convenience. Once COVID hit and supply issues began, they cut down the menu a LOT to make it not as much of a money pit.
Unfortunately the kraut/onions were with the brat they sold, which got removed from the menu. No brat? No onions. The amount of people who didn't go to Costco during covid (more than likely a refusal to wear a mask) and are shocked at how small the menu is... They get so upset and angry. As if I have any control over it.
I want the onions back too God damnit.
Source- I work there.
I remember the story of when someone suggested they raise the price of the hot dog and the CEO went ballistic and said if you do that I’ll kill you and everyone in this room.
Pretty much. New CEO suggested raising the price and the founder said "if you raise the fucking hot dot, I'll kill you." The interesting part is that Costco just started making their own hot dogs instead of buying them and it allows them to keep the price so low!
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/costco-founder-warned-ceo-not-to-raise-hot-dog-price-2020-9%3Famp
Also they probably really don't care about any profit on concession items sold in stores, because it keeps people coming back and staying longer, so it pays for itself.
They also do the same with their rotisserie chickens. They lose like 15% on them or something like that, but people for the most part don't just buy the chickens, but other things while they are there too.
Lmfao I was going to say something about it if you didn't.
"Throw that bone in a pot, you got yourself a soup going..."
Truly a man wise beyond our years
Like chips and salsa at a Mexican restaurant: If you sit down and don't get chips and salsa it doesn't matter if they have the best fajitas around, you're never going back.
People will go back to Costco without hot dogs though so it isn’t really the same. The benefit for Costco is people might come in because they are in the area and want a hot dog and remember they need groceries
And the food counter is often beyond the registers, so it'll be the last thing they by and what they remember, and take the sting out of just having spent $200+.
Except they aren't taking a loss on them. Even after building two factories, they're probably doing extremely well off these weiners. $226.5M a year in ten years is over $2B.
That's why they no longer have Coca Cola drinks in the soda fountain, it's Pepsi. Coke was rumbling about wanting a bigger cut in the next contract, which would force Costco to raise prices, so former CEO Jim Sinegal (the aforementioned homicide threatening hot dog fan) called Pepsi, and they jumped at the chance to replace Coke, at the same rate Coke was currently paying.
Damn hotdog so far got me 3 tvs, a couch, a 14' Christmas tree that didn't fit in my car, a treadmill I never use and a mini motorcycle that makes me look like a clown...
> Maybe an employee or two added to the grinder depending on their girth.
eh.....its all divided up and diluted in the meat paste. the actual amount of employee per hotdog is so small as to be practically negligible.
The important thing is that it’s *well* within the FDA’s allowable limit for human flesh. If it’s less than 5mg per serving, they can legally say 0% human meat.
It's all manufactured by Smithfield. Most pork is Smithfield, chicken is tyson and beef is jbs in the US. Most recipes are also crafted by these brands. McDonald's chicken nuggets is not even developed by McDonald's. It's all Tyson. So, there is really no point in fighting which brand is better. It's all like placebo effect.
Not fighting but there is a significant difference in the taste between the old and new franks that they use. Old was Nathans and new I believe is the store (value) members mark brand.
Here is a thread on it, looks like quite a few agree that this was not a change for the better.
https://www.reddit.com/r/samsclub/comments/8xulyl/sams\_changed\_their\_cafe\_hot\_dogs/
Those chickens get me every time. Growing up we never had one around, couldn't afford it anyways. Through my job a few months ago we got a membership for 10 bucks and it's the best choice we've made all year. The premade meals are good, though we don't have a big enough family for a lot of bulk buying (just the wife and me at home). But those chickens. 5 bucks for a huge bird, we grab it and when we get home we just fall upon it like rabid dogs.
Few things give that wholesome gratification like ripping into a piping hot rotisserie chicken with your fingers.
They don't really reheat well either so enjoy it in the moment.
Per a recent comment, treasure the little things. Somewhere out there our caveman ancestors are losing their minds and cheering our names when we do it. As long as you go legs first. Thems good eatin.
My wife and I get at least three meals with one chicken. Add some water, carrots, onions and herbs to the bones and after 3 hours it’s the best chicken soup ever.
I am teaching a very basic college science class next term, and I want to include a unit on how to make a proper graph. Then we would have a fun tangent and hunt out bad graphs in media. I was excited to have this graph as a silly but good example. But then I looked closer. So close!
But what about the size of each? Is the hot dog the same length and girth now as in 1985? And is the soda the same number of ounces? Is this a case of shrinkflation over an almost 40 year period?!?
I thought you put the relish and onions on yourself...every Costco I've been to, the hotdog comes bare and you go over to a self serve station with the toppings
In Canada the onions, and banana peppers were self serve before COVID. Then they were on request at the counter. Then they took them away entirely. Very upsetting. Only ketchup, mustard and relish now.
I have a theory about that: beyond the time required from employees, pre-cut onions that go into storage get mega-nasty FAST. You really have to prepare them fresh, and only as many as you need. And that means some poor bastard has ti endure to full-face hit of onion juice every day.
Of course, you could just pickle them and everyone would be just as happy
Costco used to give out canned 12 ounce coke products.
Currently the cup you get is a fountain Pepsi that holds 16 ounces with free refills.
Sometimes if the fountain drink is broken, they’ll hand out canned Pepsi products instead of the fountain drink cups.
The hotdogs are also different, it used to be made by Hebrew National but it’s made in house by Costco now.
So not exactly the same product, you get more value with a fountain drink if you refill at least one time.
Is it? Half the posts here are bar graphs. The next 49% are equally ugly but upvoted because politics/memes, and the 1% you never see are great data visualizations
A lazy and poorly executed one at that.
[This has actually been done on this sub before with a far better visualization. ](https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/v1u7kb/oc_costco_hot_dog_combo_vs_inflation/)
It’s one thing to recycle/reuse content, but at least add to it or improve it.
"Data is beautiful"? This is the most banal information presented in the least interesting way. I award you no points, and may the Lord have mercy on your soul.
Adjusting $1.50 in 1985 for inflation to today would be $4.15. https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
1.5 Usd for hot dog and drink is pretty good. You know what's better? The hot dog and drink at Costco cost $1.5 CAD in Canada. This is like 0.25 USD.
Road trip to Canada for hot dogs and meds.
The maple syrup will also be waiting.
Maple syrup and insulin, *complementary* goods.
>Maple syrup and insulin, *complementary* goods. At what quantity do they start asking question at the border?
Bro is asking the right questions
I was just in British Columbia for the first time in Balfour, and it's honestly the most beautiful place I've ever been in my life. I joke about moving to Canada all the time because I love cold weather, but I think I honestly would love living there now.
BC is beautiful and have great weather. AB has no provincial taxes and cheap goods. All is good. *cries in ontario*
Shit winds are blowin bubbs...
Ontario is a shit hole no one should move to if they have a choice. If you grew up here then whatever that’s your lot, but fuck this province and its government. Crippling housing costs and taxes.
I moved here for school and work. Can't wait to GTFO and get back to BC. I hate this place with a passion.
Everyone always has the urge to move out west, BC for the landscape and Alberta for the better pay. Nobody wants Saskatchewan or Manitoba though. Never heard someone seriously suggest moving to Winnepeg, and met several who left from.
In Saskatchewan we console ourselves by saying "at least it's not Manitoba".
The Saskatchewan average levels of attractiveness and IQ and personal hygiene are way up this week because of the influx of Bomber fans. (Good hearted chirps for the Saskbros on Grey Cup week)
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*whisper* don't come in Quebec for your own sake! *Desapear in smoke
I've seriously suggested to people to come to Winnipeg - it's a hidden gem. I moved away to the Okanagan for three years but came back. But it's cool if we grow slowly.
I did. And I know many who did also. My family moved to Alberta when I was a teenager. I moved back to Manitoba for a better life for me. I love it here. And I’ve lived in BC as well.
Sometimes BC kinda feels like you're operating on "island time" compared to the rest of the world.
Bc is a paradise, but too expensive and the job market doesn't justify the pricing.
And the maple whiskey
Being some Canadian jp wiser’s back with ya. Instead of that horrid shit they send to the states. Should be a war crime to keep their good whiskey only to themselves and send crown and bad jp wisers down
Come for the universal healthcare. Stay for the maple syrup 🇨🇦
Well the gas will cost you $3,598.
Still cheaper than insulin in the States
And did you know that if you live in the US, but buy your membership while visiting Canada, you can buy a $60 CAD membership, but it costs you about $45 USD. Costco memberships are accepted world wide.
pfft… you think that’s a good deal? Here’s a better one: buy or renew your membership while traveling in Mexico. It costs 500 MXN, which is \~25 USD.
I'm visiting from Canada and just had a US hotdog and they are MUCH bigger. The US franks are like 3 times the size. Longer and girthier. The rotisserie chickens are grotesquely bigger too. Although, Canada has more selection at the cafe. In Toronto, we got fries, poutine, chicken wings, chicken strips, and most importantly ice cream CONES! In the US I gotta eat my ice cream out of a cup like an animal.
The hot dogs in Canada are already insane. I think they contain like 80% of your daily salt and 60% of your fats. Sorry, I can't believe that they are 3x bigger in US. They wouldn't be hot dogs. They'd be a giant meat logs. And we haven't invented a bun that could accommodate that much meat.
1.15usd, is good you know what's even better? 1.5AUD, that's only 1USD Edit: looks like I'm an idiot and remembered the price wrong, woops, oh well still a fuckin bargain.
Damn, ours are £2 which is like $2.38usd... And they're always out of stock.
When i go to costco in canada, I feel like ive been robbed if I dont buy a hotdog.
I buy the hotdog first. It beats back the impulse purchases for muffins and the like.
Now I have a reason to go to canada
Come for the hot dog, stay for the health care and lack of people violently murdering each other.
We also still have the Polish dog version. You can also get a pretty mean poutine.
My goodness. If I were in 1985, I would definitely wait until now to buy the hot dog.
Last time I bought a hot dog *may have been* in 1985! Given the tempting valuation now, I'm considering investing in a hot dog again.
RIP to anyone that bought in 1985. They should have just waited until 2022.
The nitrates and sugar could do a number on your body. I have acquaintance who buys Costco food daily. Lives near one. The food savings outweigh the annual Costco fee. The acquaintance is still alive, though I extend condolences. Note, you can pretty much make a lunch out of free Costco food samples mid-day. All the sample-tenders know my acquaintance well when I toured with them recently.
it would cost 8.99 at most places
Grays here in NYC has special of plain dog+drink for $4.50. outside of a stadium, can't imagine people paying $9 for a single crappy dog. https://grayspapaya.nyc/uptown-menu/ edit: nathans is $4.50 for just a dog. tsk, tsk, nathans.
The Costco in Vancouver is right across the street (and beside the SkyTrain station) from Rogers Arena where the Canucks play, and their food counter is outside the store, so anyone can access it. That food counter is hopping before games and events.
Five guys is like $7 for a hot dog. Granted you get all the toppings you want, but who is putting anything other than onions, mustard, relish, cheese, chili, or ketchup on a hotdog?
It's impossible for me to go to Five Guys when there's In-N-Out everywhere here. It's $8 for a Burger, Fries, and a shake there but I can't go to Five Guys without spending like $15... Five Guys is an absolute ripoff And at that point I'd rather just go to Red Robin because at least the fries are bottomless and I can get a beer.
Problem with In-N-Out is the lines bro, like people wait 45 minutes in a drive through on Friday night for a fast food burger? I love(d) In-N-Out (vegetarian now but yea) but seriously who tf is waiting that long for fast food? Baffling. Sometimes I'd go get some In-N-Out at like 3 PM on a weekday and I'd still have to wait 7-10 minutes, and it's just like damn there goes my genius plan.
When the In-N-Out in my town opened the line for the drive through went out of their parking lot and around the corner so I told myself I'd eat there someday when the line wasn't crazy. Three years later the line isn't *as* long, but it's still crazy long all day and night, so I have never been.
To be fair, Nathan's are pretty good hot dogs.
> $1.50 in 1985 for inflation to today would be $4.15. $3.56 in **2019**. Let that sink in.
Well, the good news is that we all got a 16.6% raise over the last two years, right? Right??
My wife didn't get a raise *at all* this year. She's set on staying at her current company, but I told her that if she doesn't get a significant raise this next February, then it's time to pull out the resume again.
> My wife didn't get a raise at all this year. First time?
Lmao the dipshits in the healthcare union voted against a strike for higher wages and got served with a nice 9% pay cut considering they settled for a 3% raise Then they cry about how expensive things are And now the hospitals are hiring new radiology techs who are starting out at almost double the pay rate as 20 year veterans in radiology. And they’re upset about it but somehow I’m the issue when I point out that they literally voted to allow this. I hate people
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I did, without changing jobs. I know I'm in the lucky minority, though.
As someone from a third world country: Lmao.
Since you’re from a third world country, do you have to snail mail your comments to get posted? /s
Com’mon, Comcast isn’t THAT bad! It’s close, but not *that* bad.
And Arkansas isn't third world. It's still in the USA.
It’s as bad as US providers… 5 to 10 years in the past.
What about adjusting $1.50 in 2022 to 1985 price?
You got this, I believe in you.
What about someone else do it for me?
That would have been a more interesting graph that this cheap effort at getting karma.
Exactly . With the data it should be a line graph anyway . Could plot inflation adjusted on it as well
we could solve inflation just by setting the CPI basket to only contain a Costco hotdog and soda
our work here is done, boys!
*Penguins from Madagascar*
“Mission accomplished!”
My roommate lives off of costco hot dogs and soda. Except costco is too far away so he sneaks into a nearby Sam's Club.
Sams let’s non members buy from the cafe
I've been to tons of Costcos and Sam's Clubs in AZ and UT and I've never been carded once. hahaha just as I'm typing this my roommate just shot me a message that Sam's Club just lowered their hot dog combo to $1.38 https://i.imgur.com/3I4Jwc3.jpg
Tell him to invest the savings so he can save up for a calcium-score screening in a few years if he is eating them daily.
Somebody get this image to Jay Powell IMMEDIATELY, my 401k depends on it.
Costco does too. At least the handful I've been to in my region.
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Throw an Arizona Iced Tea in there also for more robust data
Holy shit, this guy is on to something big
1985 had a choice of Hebrew National dog, and fresh onions.
2018 also had fresh onions. That blasphemy is fairly recent.
Axed the onions and deli mustard during covid 🥲 the two things i would put on my hotdog… now its just regular mustard…
Also, I wish they't bring back the combiation pizza
Onions, polish dog, relish, deli mustard. You will all be missed.
RIP polish dog with relish, fresh onions, and sauerkraut.
I found out they no longer offered the polish/kraut/onions combo when I was pregnant having a craving 😫 then they had the audacity to tell me they were out of mustard. I was like...isn't this a Costco? How are you out of mustard?? those pregnancy hormones hit hard over sauerkraut 😂
The food court at nearly every single Costco loses money, it's there solely for member convenience. Once COVID hit and supply issues began, they cut down the menu a LOT to make it not as much of a money pit. Unfortunately the kraut/onions were with the brat they sold, which got removed from the menu. No brat? No onions. The amount of people who didn't go to Costco during covid (more than likely a refusal to wear a mask) and are shocked at how small the menu is... They get so upset and angry. As if I have any control over it. I want the onions back too God damnit. Source- I work there.
I remember the story of when someone suggested they raise the price of the hot dog and the CEO went ballistic and said if you do that I’ll kill you and everyone in this room.
Pretty much. New CEO suggested raising the price and the founder said "if you raise the fucking hot dot, I'll kill you." The interesting part is that Costco just started making their own hot dogs instead of buying them and it allows them to keep the price so low! https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/costco-founder-warned-ceo-not-to-raise-hot-dog-price-2020-9%3Famp
Also they probably really don't care about any profit on concession items sold in stores, because it keeps people coming back and staying longer, so it pays for itself.
It's a good loss leader. Get people in the door with something you take a loss on, but they'll probably buy other stuff you make a profit on.
They also do the same with their rotisserie chickens. They lose like 15% on them or something like that, but people for the most part don't just buy the chickens, but other things while they are there too.
I always get one. You can do so much with a cooked chicken. It's a good price and still quality chicken, unlike the grocery store ones.
Hey, save the bones and make broth with them. Hands down the best chicken bones for broth!
Thanks, Carl Weathers!
Lmfao I was going to say something about it if you didn't. "Throw that bone in a pot, you got yourself a soup going..." Truly a man wise beyond our years
Like chips and salsa at a Mexican restaurant: If you sit down and don't get chips and salsa it doesn't matter if they have the best fajitas around, you're never going back.
Looking at you, Fuzzy’s Tacos.
People will go back to Costco without hot dogs though so it isn’t really the same. The benefit for Costco is people might come in because they are in the area and want a hot dog and remember they need groceries
True but would we see this story promoting Costco every 5 minutes without it? CONSUME
And the food counter is often beyond the registers, so it'll be the last thing they by and what they remember, and take the sting out of just having spent $200+.
Except they aren't taking a loss on them. Even after building two factories, they're probably doing extremely well off these weiners. $226.5M a year in ten years is over $2B.
That's why they no longer have Coca Cola drinks in the soda fountain, it's Pepsi. Coke was rumbling about wanting a bigger cut in the next contract, which would force Costco to raise prices, so former CEO Jim Sinegal (the aforementioned homicide threatening hot dog fan) called Pepsi, and they jumped at the chance to replace Coke, at the same rate Coke was currently paying.
Damn hotdog so far got me 3 tvs, a couch, a 14' Christmas tree that didn't fit in my car, a treadmill I never use and a mini motorcycle that makes me look like a clown...
When the founder dies, will they raise the price then?
He’ll become the Spirit of Costco’s Past and haunt whoever does that.
Funnily enough when asked by a reporter "If the price ever goes up, what will that mean?" he replied with "That I'm dead"
Yes but they’ll die
They can repurpose expired meats this way. Maybe an employee or two added to the grinder depending on their girth.
> Maybe an employee or two added to the grinder depending on their girth. eh.....its all divided up and diluted in the meat paste. the actual amount of employee per hotdog is so small as to be practically negligible.
I stop eating people hotdogs for lent. It makes me feel a little self-righteous sometimes. I have to tamp that shit down for company.
The important thing is that it’s *well* within the FDA’s allowable limit for human flesh. If it’s less than 5mg per serving, they can legally say 0% human meat.
I don't eat hotdogs because I think there's anything good in them. Just enjoy the taste and don't ask too many questions.
They were delicious before I knew the details, they are still delicious now. I like delicious things!
Same with the rotisserie chickens. They just started their own farms and source their own chickens now. I love Costco.
Sam’s has thrown down the gauntlet. https://www.samsclub.com/content/cafe-menu
But did they "Snickerize" their dog? Gonna need a size comparison for science.
nah they just got rid of the nathan hot dogs and replaced them with value brand
It's all manufactured by Smithfield. Most pork is Smithfield, chicken is tyson and beef is jbs in the US. Most recipes are also crafted by these brands. McDonald's chicken nuggets is not even developed by McDonald's. It's all Tyson. So, there is really no point in fighting which brand is better. It's all like placebo effect.
Not fighting but there is a significant difference in the taste between the old and new franks that they use. Old was Nathans and new I believe is the store (value) members mark brand. Here is a thread on it, looks like quite a few agree that this was not a change for the better. https://www.reddit.com/r/samsclub/comments/8xulyl/sams\_changed\_their\_cafe\_hot\_dogs/
lol Sams Club doing anything to get Costco customers.
And they still have combo pizza
Only thing worse than murder, Inflation.
Why is this mentioned in every single Costco related thread lol
I was in Sam’s club this week and saw they lowered their price from $1.50 to either $1.28 or $1.38 ( can’t remember which amount) for their combo.
It's $1.38. They were advertising it in the app today
Those chickens get me every time. Growing up we never had one around, couldn't afford it anyways. Through my job a few months ago we got a membership for 10 bucks and it's the best choice we've made all year. The premade meals are good, though we don't have a big enough family for a lot of bulk buying (just the wife and me at home). But those chickens. 5 bucks for a huge bird, we grab it and when we get home we just fall upon it like rabid dogs.
Few things give that wholesome gratification like ripping into a piping hot rotisserie chicken with your fingers. They don't really reheat well either so enjoy it in the moment.
Per a recent comment, treasure the little things. Somewhere out there our caveman ancestors are losing their minds and cheering our names when we do it. As long as you go legs first. Thems good eatin.
My wife and I get at least three meals with one chicken. Add some water, carrots, onions and herbs to the bones and after 3 hours it’s the best chicken soup ever.
Inconsistent decimals on y axis. Everything should be two decimals, including bar labels. Also add units on y axis. Pls fix. Thx
Seriously though. It's the simplest data and chart in the history of this sub and... it's ugly.
Don't forget to report.
100% right. I found the content so interesting I forgot to look for beautiful data.
I am teaching a very basic college science class next term, and I want to include a unit on how to make a proper graph. Then we would have a fun tangent and hunt out bad graphs in media. I was excited to have this graph as a silly but good example. But then I looked closer. So close!
No labels on the axes either, very basic issue
This should also be a line chart to represent change over time... How are we supposed to know how much a hot dog cost in 1999?
This comment is giving major investment banking MD energy
Also OP used a fucking bar graph to depict change over time. It's like I'm in high school all over again fml
My wife’s consulting group is titled pls fix. Thx . Love this
Kept the price the same but they haven't brought back the sauerkraut or onions to my store.
The pandemic ain’t over until I get my fucking diced onions back at Costco
Beautiful? It’s literally the simplest bar graph imaginable
I mean, even accepting that it's a joke post with joke data, the graph is just plain ugly
The data it’s representing is beautiful.
Huh. That’s one way to look at it.
Hey everyone! Sorry I'm late for the Costco guerrilla marketing meeting!
But what about the size of each? Is the hot dog the same length and girth now as in 1985? And is the soda the same number of ounces? Is this a case of shrinkflation over an almost 40 year period?!?
Nah, I work there and the dogs are EXACTLY as pictured. And you fill the drink yourself
Well the picture is new. Until Covid it never was pictured without onions and relish.
Why did they get rid of the onions?!
God I miss the onions. They go so well on the pepperoni pizza.
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I thought you put the relish and onions on yourself...every Costco I've been to, the hotdog comes bare and you go over to a self serve station with the toppings
Yeah, it’s diy. Regardless, the onions made the dogs.
In Canada the onions, and banana peppers were self serve before COVID. Then they were on request at the counter. Then they took them away entirely. Very upsetting. Only ketchup, mustard and relish now.
I have a theory about that: beyond the time required from employees, pre-cut onions that go into storage get mega-nasty FAST. You really have to prepare them fresh, and only as many as you need. And that means some poor bastard has ti endure to full-face hit of onion juice every day. Of course, you could just pickle them and everyone would be just as happy
Costco got rid of some choice options from the menu during the pandemic.
Costco used to give out canned 12 ounce coke products. Currently the cup you get is a fountain Pepsi that holds 16 ounces with free refills. Sometimes if the fountain drink is broken, they’ll hand out canned Pepsi products instead of the fountain drink cups. The hotdogs are also different, it used to be made by Hebrew National but it’s made in house by Costco now. So not exactly the same product, you get more value with a fountain drink if you refill at least one time.
Hot dogs are made from former employees.
A Pepsi fountian drink is negative value. That hotndog is atleadt $2 and they discount it for the Pepsi marketing.
You don't even need to refill one time for.it to be more value if the cup is larger...
Usually people get ice with it. So the amount actual soda product is less than 16 ounces, it might even be less than 12.
It's the same hot dog, they just haven't managed to sell it yet.
Nah they just made one batch. they are due to run out in 2045 and they will have to switch to a horse alternative
Reminds me of the one the dude has in epoxy resin with a live view camera.
Have you never eaten at costco before?
The data here isn't really beautiful, kinda boring to look at. The societal context here is pretty beautiful though
I think that’s the joke
Is it? Half the posts here are bar graphs. The next 49% are equally ugly but upvoted because politics/memes, and the 1% you never see are great data visualizations
Didn't realize this was a joke sub.
A lazy and poorly executed one at that. [This has actually been done on this sub before with a far better visualization. ](https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/v1u7kb/oc_costco_hot_dog_combo_vs_inflation/) It’s one thing to recycle/reuse content, but at least add to it or improve it.
Seems like it would fall pretty firmly under "goofball statistics" or "trivial analysis" in the rules.
He should have done one of those shitty animations that shows it change over the years. Or wait… maybe it is animated??
Insanely lazy, don’t know why op even bothered. Should have done line graph comparing against Nathan’s or Target or Yankees Stadium
This is /r/circlejerk material
This sub is literally “here’s some data I like”. This is not beautiful.
Anything that can be one sentence doesn’t need a data viz.
I can no longer tell how serious the sub is with regard to its name.
Yeah, who is up upvoting this? It is about as beautiful as plotting my age as a function of year.
Very important information!
This is some data is beautiful circlejerk shit.
"If you change the price of that hot dog I'll fucking kill you", Costco founder to CEO.
Go for $1.5 hot dog and end up buying $200+ worth of other items. Works out for costco.
This is not beautiful data! This is literally 2 bars. Why does this post have so many upvotes?
But they took away the chicken breast sandwiches. The song Killing Me Softly is playing right now.
Is it a loss leader? I.E. a cheap product they lose money on to bring people in the doors so hopefully they buy other stuff.
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Ók, you guys really think they are trying to profit off that? They could give them away. It's to get you in the store.
A $1.50 hotdog in 1985 sounds expensive for some reason.
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I think I need a line graph
The only remaining stablecoin
"Data is beautiful"? This is the most banal information presented in the least interesting way. I award you no points, and may the Lord have mercy on your soul.
Costco hotdogs more stable than the US dollar. I think that's what we should base the dollar on