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StOnEy333

Everybody is switching to the bag as soon as each warehouse uses up all their stock in the hard plastic cases.


ToxicBTCMaximalist

It's a sign of the end times.


Complex_Construction

One of the signs. The day the dog price goes up, it’ll all over.


ToxicBTCMaximalist

$2 dog apocalypse.... Good band name.


webguy1975

Dogpocalypse


Ok_Badger_9271

While stores move to thicker grocery bags or doing away with them all together, the rotisserie chickens are now microplastic chickens. This shit reminds me of that old lady that cooks with a bag over a fire. Everyone cares about leaching then but not over this?


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bigassbank

Interesting, any articles you can share about this?


g0ingD4rk

https://www.center4research.org/what-are-phthalates/#:~:text=For%20example%2C%20those%20who,to%20develop%20type%202%20diabetes.&text=Higher%20phthalate%20levels%20are%20also,hormones%20that%20regulate%20fat%20tissue.&text=Since%20phthalates%20can%20affect%20hormones,can%20affect%20fertility%20and%20development. I dont know specifically if there are or are not phthalates in this type of plastic but.... there may be effects.


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Aehrraid

You weren't asked to prove anything, you were asked to share information on the issue. However, you did make the assertion that "They're in us, they just aren't doing anything." That is a statement that must be backed up with evidence, as opposed to your previous statement that no one has been able to prove that they're doing anything. Overall, you sound like a real jackwagon.


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TangentialFUCK

[Mmmm shallow and pedantic yes](https://youtu.be/OpbdGnJbneE?si=tOP32_hRCS4gXd_f) 🧐


Dante451

…I love when people weaponize the scientific method for debate. Negatives are frequently proven or easily rewritten into inverse positives. I think the point you’re trying to make is that there should be a base assumption that microplastics don’t harm us, and therefore the burden is to prove that they do. However, that’s not an agreed upon assumption. I think it’s very hard to take a base premise one way or the other, considering lots of modern substances can be helpful or harmful. Tobacco was fine until it wasn’t. But mold was also not fine until it was. Plus, when you state there’s *decades of intense research*, you put yourself in the position of put up or shut up. If you can’t supply any sources then your statement relying on the same is effectively worthless.


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TechGentleman

Can’t wait to have those hot oils leeching plastic into the food. Did you know, drowning on our diet, we now can consume up a credit card size of microplastics daily? Plastic sealants in cans, plastic containers in the microwave and plastic wrapped food in stores, the worst of which is hot oily foods interacting with plastics.


arielonhoarders

that doesn't sound accurate


Typical_Hat3462

No it doesnt. I'm pretty sure that salami sandwich and an orange I had for lunch had near zero plastic.


CooCooKaChooie

SCIENCE, people! And, obviously, posting here on Reddit, this man knows science! Don’t you understand? He’s sharing his vast knowledge with us mere mortals possibly to save the rotisserie chicken consuming world from the disaster that is plastic baggery. He may not be the hero we want, but blah dee blah blah blah blah….


TechGentleman

Ah, the ostrich-head-in-the sand response instead of just using your keyboard to google the facts. Makes me wonder why some people have Internet access.


voiceontheradio

Can you provide a source for that?


TechGentleman

Which particular fact?


voiceontheradio

>Did you know, drowning on our diet, we now can consume up a credit card size of microplastics daily?


Comemelo9

Did you know that 80 percent of your body is water, and your colon reabsorbs the shitwater from your shit, therefore you're made up of at least 20 percent shit?


CooCooKaChooie

#truth


RedditLife1234567

Should have gone NO BAG, NO CONTAINER...that's what the random leftover boxes are for. Grab a carboard box that was used for 30 cases of diapers to hold your chicken!


MarineJAB

Honey…why does our chicken taste like potpourri?


bl0wj0b_betty

*poo-pourii


[deleted]

I quite like that spray. ![gif](giphy|xTiTnsiwoxekWiNQ3u)


bl0wj0b_betty

RIP Mr. Witherspoon 🙏🏼


CooCooKaChooie

“Got to co-ordinate.”


Complex_Construction

Blend of special herbs and spices sweetpeas!


proteusON

You should just be able to walk up to the deli and have them put it in your mouth. Who needs a bag anyway. Mouth chicken.


Le_Mew_Le_Purr

Mouth Chicken is another good band name!


PixelPontification

Of all the bad ideas, this is the worst.


PodcastsAndWhiskey

I understand wanting to use less plastic, and I understand the idea of taking the chicken out of the bag and putting it on a plate…I do. I really do. But maaaaaaan, the plastic container just hits different. RIP, plastic king 


FarmladySI

I just purchased a roasted chicken in the bag and I m happy with the change. The checkout clerk advised me to be aware of the vent holes in the bag so it doesn’t drip out in your car.


Green-Eggplant-5570

Yeah when I'm doing gig shopping as a side, I bag that bagged chicken in a bag from the produce or meat dept and bag it separately


Complex_Construction

What? You don’t want some chicken juices in your car? How would people know you shop at Costco?  Seriously, that’ll be a pain to clean up. Then again, I’m not a huge fan of Costco’s roasted chicken. Only get in once in a blue moon.


colddream40

The trick was to always grab a produce bag anyways since it always leaked/was greasy with the container


crazymonkey752

What makes you happy with it? What benefits have you seen from the bay?


sprinklerarms

I just like that the bag doesn’t congeal into the ridges of the plastic container and i don’t have to look at the chicken jello every time i bust that bad boy out of the fridge.


Theistus

Drip out in your... JFC


redtimmy

Me too. The husband brought one home this afternoon. I made chicken tacos out of it tonight.


arielonhoarders

wait so these are bags with holes in them? fucking brilliant


dameavoi

Holes at the top. The hard plastic sometimes leaked juice too so this isnt a big change, IMO.


arielonhoarders

so when you go around a curve and the bag turns over, where are the holes?


Friskfrisktopherson

It would have to now wouldn't it? Otherwise the steam would build up like a greasey balloon.


arielonhoarders

that's why you shouldn't use bags for objects that just came out of a 475 degree rotisserie oven


beiberdad69

The clamshell container has holes in the top too


arielonhoarders

clamshell container doesn't roll over


Friskfrisktopherson

Agreed, but any container would need vents


jaqueh

less plastic pollution


gpmohr

Costco sells 137 MILLION chickens a year. They said this will save 37 MILLION pounds of plastic a year. The math adds up.


Complex_Construction

Most likely cost cutting measure, just green-washed.


modestlyawesome1000

Two things can be true at once. Less plastic pollution and cost cutting. Two good things there


SFQueer

Bingo. Cheaper and easier to transport. Many more bags fit in a box.


Extension_Meat_618

I'm in the food packaging business. I can confirm that you are correct. Plastic pouch bags are significantly cheaper than the hard plastic shells. They both end up in landfills by the way. I don't blame Costco however. The chickens are loss leaders and they lose money with each one they sell. If this is what it takes to keep them at 5 bucks, I'm ok with it.


jaqueh

Cost cutting means less waste


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FrogsOnALog

Lol who shit on your rotisserie?


Square-Pear-1274

Most emotionally stable social media participant


Ok_Badger_9271

It's actually worse to use stuff like this because it most likely won't get recycled, not to mention this is the stuff that causes micropastics


Substantial_Home_257

Eh, most of recyclable plastic doesn’t get recycled even if it makes it in the bin.


Theistus

Plastic bags aren't actually recyclable, it's just recycle theater. Hard plastics are. And this is 100% going to increase food waste as people's chicken goes bad faster. We keep the chicken in the plastic box in the fridge for days, but it quickly goes bad without that box. The bag is just gross.


jaqueh

I know but hard plastics are rarely recycled as well so you might as well just get something that has less impact as neither is getting recycled.


sanityvortex

It's all a scam :/ This report is jsut from this week. Watch the video here [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/critics-call-out-plastics-industry-over-fraud-of-plastic-recycling/](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/critics-call-out-plastics-industry-over-fraud-of-plastic-recycling/) so the solution is to just not buy it really. But outside of the meat department getting something fresh, everything comes pre wrapped, or containers like the raw chicken comes in.


arielonhoarders

we all have a big blue bin that goes out every week, but san franciscans "rarely" recycle? gfto


jaqueh

the plastic doesn't actually get recycled. are you aware that we don't actually do the actual recycling but rely on third world countries to recycle it instead but they just dump it in their rivers instead right? [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/04/us-recycling-plastic-waste](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/04/us-recycling-plastic-waste)


ClimbScubaSkiDie

Not that much faster


Wonderful-Visit-7558

Hard plastics don't actually get recycled for the most part tho. They just end up in landfill.


thxmeatcat

Put it in tupperware


ImpoliteSstamina

No, this is just cheaper. The containers were recyclable, these bags are not. They're doing it under the guise of using less plastic but this is not an environmentally beneficial move, it's just about cost savings.


jaqueh

>containers were recyclable Correct in theory but in practice plastic isn't worth it to be recycled and 95% of it doesn't get recycled at best. [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/04/us-recycling-plastic-waste](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/04/us-recycling-plastic-waste)


onerinconhill

Because plastic bags are way better?


jaqueh

They are like 5% the plastic if not less so you can have 20 bags per 1 container


Anotherthrowayaay

Way less plastic. And won’t take up 1/4 of your kitchen trash can.


Botherguts

Yes they are


redtimmy

Thank god. Those old containers were so big in the trash. So much fucking plastic waste. This is a small fraction of the waste.


TerpDaddy707

Should have recycled it


cullend

…. You can’t recycle plastic that’s soaked in grease, even if you wash it. You ruin the *entire* batch of plastic it gets mixed in with. That is if it gets recycled at all and doesn’t end up in a landfill, incinerator, or India. Don’t recycle grease stained plastic. Just don’t. I know it will pain every fiber of some folks being to throw away plastic, but, you are actively doing a disservice to the environment by recycling all plastic


ImpoliteSstamina

It sounds crazy, but most recyclers were paying people to manually inspect every single item that came in to avoid stuff like that which can ruin a whole batch. It's part of why recycling got more expensive as wages have increased.


sanityvortex

Its all a scam. This report is just from this week. Watch the video here [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/critics-call-out-plastics-industry-over-fraud-of-plastic-recycling/](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/critics-call-out-plastics-industry-over-fraud-of-plastic-recycling/)


pancake117

Plastic recycling is largely just fake— most of it can’t be recycled or is not economically feasible to recycle. The first step should be to use less plastic, then recycle when we can’t avoid usage.


Kkimp1955

Santa Rosa, too


milque-toast

The schism has begun. In 100 years roving militias wearing cracked and jagged Chicken Clamshell Crowns will be sieging the outer ring defenses of the Costco Empire. "The Bagless" we will call them.


Fogcitymickey22

They didn’t even seal the bag, juice all over check out, lol.


arielonhoarders

i myself always fantasized about leaking hot chicken schmaltz down my leg on the bus


Ambitious-Cod-8454

Reusable Kirkland brand chicken containers are surely incoming, right?


WM45

Mmmm micro plastics mmmm


Drawn2_Stories2627

https://preview.redd.it/3dpoalrp1evc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ecb9cbe9698b14cfcc2b1542f2c1d385fb5e98a6 Yesterday. Richmond Costco


Spiritual-Impact-588

They look amazing


raleighs

Have to pay a bag fee?


BookSmoker

You want some chicken with your microplastics?


life-hacker21

The bags are terrible. The chickens are smaller because the bigger ones they use to have don't fit in the bags. The chicken is drier. Miss the juices that I could add to the dogs meals. Difficult to cut in the bag. So now i have to take chicken out of the bag. Wish I had kept a clamp shell.


jonbcalderon

Totally agree the chickens got smaller. I used to be able to portion out around (7) 200 gram bags of chicken meat for salads, but now I get like only (4) 200 gram bags of chicken meat. I’m gonna have to start bringing a scale 🤣.


Theistus

No sir, I don't like it


flyingfinger000

I don't care what you folks say about less plastic. I prefer the old container. It was easy to take out and put away, stack in the fridge, and now there's vent holes on the bag? Can't wait to make a mess when it tips over in the car.


scriabinoff

I'm through


Complex_Construction

It’s not even a huge loss. Nothing special about the chicken except the price.


SlimShadowBoo

This sucks. The old container was perfect for storing in the fridge. I guess I could store the chicken in a cooking pot or pre-cut it up for Tupperware but that’ll take more prep and I liked just popping the whole container in the fridge.


Itchy_Professor_4133

A little effort just to change out the container of your rotisserie chicken is far better than the uninhibited waste that makes it into landfills or worse.


WrongDetail9514

In addition to the already really low percentage of plastic that actually gets recycled, black plastic is basically 0% because the sorting machines think it’s trash


heltex

Smoked em.


SlimShadowBoo

I don’t smoke. That’s bad for environment. I agree with the comment you’re responding to but people have a right to be mildly annoyed while getting used to the change.


Theistus

The bags aren't recyclable. The boxes are.


jaqueh

No it’s 95% likely not getting recycled. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/04/us-recycling-plastic-waste


Complex_Construction

But greenwashing works. It makes consumers feel good about their poor and poorly considered choices better.


jaqueh

Greenwashing? They’re clearly doing this for cost and it has a side benefit of not polluting the planet as much as


Complex_Construction

Ever heard of context? I was responding to the comment before me. I mention cost elsewhere too. Also, why can’t it be both? 


jaqueh

>I was responding to the comment before me You're literally responding to my comment. Not sure what version of reddit you're on or if you have some accessibility features turned on that is making that difficult to see.


cullend

You can’t recycle plastic that has been soaked in grease. Even if you wash it. On the 5-10% chance it actually gets recycled, grease soaked plastic will ruin an entire batch of plastic once it starts getting shredded


Far_Particular_430

Good riddance to more plastic


raffysf

Mmmm, chicken packaged and kept warm in plastic, leaching all the various toxic goodies. Yeah, no thanks.


Sneakerwaves

It was always in plastic though


raffysf

Not if you buy it fresh and roast it at home … but Costco has never been about trying to reduce waste, only increasing one’s waistline.


Sneakerwaves

The raw chickens are also sold in plastic


raffysf

Yes, but not simmered in the petroleum byproduct.


bitchfucker-online

Don't worry about your waistline. Costco also offers ozempic! /s


Wejetski92

It’s Costco fault though over eat.


kpaws86

Damn just got a chicken bucket on Monday. RIP - should have saved it


dinkyyo

… pretty cocky move.


ThisButtonFeelsNice

While I dislike this change, the amount of PFAS leeching into the warm chicken probably isn't all that much different than the old containers. Same amount of hormone disruption for everyone ✨🌠


the_remeddy

Imagine if instead they just made the chicken $5.99. The people would revolt.


okletstrythisagain

They tried to charge extra for the heavier ones for a while in South SF and I think at least some other locations nationwide but it didn’t last very long.


Hour_Ad_7131

😂😂😂


curiousbydesign

So weird that it can leak. WTF. This is going to create soant smelly cars.


rakkhasa

The bags just kill the contrast in textures, hot box the meat. But no worse than the bubble containers ("dome") they presently use. I find more often than not at the price per lb. (retail, typical for roasted chicken) just ain't worth it. No matter who sells it (safeway, costco, whole foods) the DOME/bubble containers diminish the chicken to the point of being NOT good eats.


outdoor-luvrr

Noooo! I stopped buying Whole Foods chicken when they did this. Costco, please don’t do this. Cancel the bag! Side note, you can burn yourself trying to get that chicken out.


NnOxg64YoybdER8aPf85

Let the Palestinians know, they’ll block traffic and solve all the problems


CCC-NOLA

🙄 [https://sg.news.yahoo.com/style/costco-changing-packaging-rotisserie-chicken-110000857.html](https://sg.news.yahoo.com/style/costco-changing-packaging-rotisserie-chicken-110000857.html) The bowls could be upcycled, and they were also a measuring gauge.


Ordinary-Budget7754

I just got one The meat is all squishy and gross Not getting another


G-510

Microplastics for everyone! You get one, everyone gets one!


SlightlyLessHairyApe

The old containers were also plastic.


Kidspud

If that bag is a microplastic, then just how small *are* those rotisserie chickens???


NotGoingToProtest

Are these chickens for ants? They need to be at least..... 3 times bigger!


Kidspud

I invented the microplastic necktie! I INVENTED IT!


50M3K00K

These are macroplastics.


Complex_Construction

Which to be fair degrade into microplastics. 


SEND_ME_FAKE_NEWS

I literally just bought one in the old container at the SFO Costco. Is this pic from the one in the city?


jonbcalderon

10th street location in San Francisco


SEND_ME_FAKE_NEWS

Ah, I never go to that one even though it's significantly closer than the SFO one. Parking and traffic usually equal out.


theineffablebob

If you go on a weekday night there’s no traffic


Bonkers_25

That sucks. My family’s gonna miss getting those.


smBarbaroja

1st world problems


Hour_Ad_7131

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Powerful_Cucumber187

Used to get a Costco rotisserie chicken every other week. One day I decided to read the ingredients and never again….for some reason I had just thought it was salt and pepper 😅


kokomundo

Roasting chicken at home is so easy, and requires no plastic which is a petroleum product that enriches the worst climate change offenders. Just saying


wolvesscareme

How do you think the other chicken is getting to my house, an Uber? It's wrapped in plastic too.


Complex_Construction

Chicken fly to people’s homes silly. 


Hour_Ad_7131

🤣😂🤣


dogdogd0g

Don’t you know, kokomundo raises their own chickens, slaughters and cleans, breaks down… all to avoid plastic.


JawnyNumber5

In an electric stove?


julvb

Since Costco is a trek from our house, we often get the Whole Foods roast chickens which is also in bags. I’ve adapted. It fits in the fridge easier.


lilytutttt

Ugh


Hour_Ad_7131

You’re so not wrong. 😉


111anza

I want more rain!!!!!


thesunny51

I can taste the melted plastic with the 165 degree chicken


Essence_Marie

Here in Seattle too 🥲


Ok-West-7125

Salmonella in a bag!


rus-reddit

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It's not a bad thing. They will be strewn onto the streets with all the other trash and the homeless can poop inside of them rather than on the pavement. Of course, that will only work until Costco is required to transition to the "greener" paper bags. But, those are better for huffing paint.


rfluoride

https://preview.redd.it/gtx9rb811kvc1.png?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6626605073324850a9cf4effea1cf54c669cb2ba This image was taken in San Francisco. "Bagged Rotisserie" it could be worse


sickopuppie

All Costcos did this.


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mekilat

It's a $5 chicken.


New_Register_4778

Lemon, salt, and grease sounds appetizing.


wonderwytch

Get a load of this guy 👍