who is Bob Lefsetz?

Sunday night an hour before close is usually decent

during the pandemic my schedule was pretty open and I’d work weird hours and just go to costco at 2pm on a tuesday

I've been to Costco many times, but not once on my own - I've only gone when I was living in a house or with someone who needed to stock up on shit, and honestly even then I hated it. Granted, prices are good, but the people I go with have this mentality like we're stocking up a bunker. Was much happier when I could stop by the Key Food on the way home and grab a few things. Never wasted anything because I only bought what I could use or consume in a reasonable amount of time. Now, our fridge has stuff like a giant container of salsa that was opened a year ago and still 90% full.

You guys ever order a pizza from the special pizza phone?

> but the people I go with have this mentality like we're stocking up a bunker

I like when they send me a flyer of online specials, and there's usually a whole leg jamón serrano with a basswood display stand, and next to it there's a special price on 800 meals of freeze dried vegetable protein taco filling sealed in plastic tubs. And they both cost $400. Blue state / red state bunker stocking; they know how to walk the line!

when i had storage space and ate gluten costco was fine, now neither their enormous quantities of stuff nor their ridiculously cheap pizza are things which attract me

also, "inner city costco"? those are a thing?

the inner city, where all classes meet

The pizza's good! We've gone there just to pick up pizza...

I *love* Costco, and while I don't know what an "inner city Costco" may be (as opposed to a "Costco, in a city"), they do differ between locations and often tweak what they stock to suit the location. For example, one of our closer Costco's has a larger Muslim clientele, so they often stock frozen halal half lambs. Or a Costco in the PNW might have more Asian cooking supplies, like frozen sea cucumber. I also learned that the bakery has some degree of discretion, and not all Costco bakeries offer the same stuff. They also have a relatively good reputation for how they treat their employees.

Plus gas is much cheaper, they've got a pretty good selection of bourbon and they have a great team of eye doctors/pharmacists on site here.

I have no idea what specific "inner city" one he's talking about, but for a large portion of the country, they're typically in suburbs or the kind of fringe areas where big box stores exist. I don't know that I've been to one in a more densely-packed area.

Granted, the only time I ever fill up with gas at a Costco is when I do it for my mother-in-law's car when we visit her, usually on the weekends, but waiting 20-30 minutes to get to a pump isn't worth the savings ime.

Yeah, I stopped doing that once we had kids and just don't have the time (ironically, as gas is more $$ now)

Weird, it's fast at the locations near me, not least because Costco seems like the only place that has pumps designed to easily stretch to either side of the car.

Forgot about those pumps, they're cool. Yeah I mean just driving to Costco for gas means going significantly out of my way

found this image, so not mine or my location, but this is what the gas lines look like 90% of the time i drive by our closest Costco (granted it's always early evening or weekends when I do, but still)

https://images.barrons.com/im-338770?width=1280&size=1.77777778

(fwiw, I initially felt bad about the thread derail, but remembered which thread this was and well, fuck him, Costco is more worthy of attention lol)

I find that even when the lines look like that they still move pretty fast.

Lots of local stuff at our stores, too, like Michigan honey or Manny's corned beef. We bought our TV at Costco, too (right before the pandemic hit, thank goodness), and they were so easy to deal with, and basically included all sorts of default warranties on top of the regular warranty. Tires, house plants, toilet paper, frozen seafood ... plus a more or less no questions asked return policy.

Anyway, fuck Bob Lefsetz, what a dork.

I always think it's funny when you (invariably) see someone checking out with, like – a crate of oranges, a bag of frozen chicken, a big box of crackers, and a giant-screen TV on a pallet.

A ten-gallon jar of mayonnaise

i don't know if they have these everywhere, but near me there's a Costco Business Center - it's kind of a different layout, lots more huge lots of stuff like mayo, ketchup, way more limited on consumer electronics, clothing, etc...the whole thing is for businesses buying stuff wholesale i think, anyway mine still has gas pumps and it's not nearly as crazy busy with regular folks

speaking as someone who used to sell products online through Costco, their hardcore fans/customers are the absolute worst entitled people I have ever dealt with in retail

no you cannot return your $15K solar system that you bought 8 years ago and let sit in your garage until it became obsolete, fuck off

(this being said, it does seem like a decent place to work?)

You can buy a Solar System at Costco? Someone tell Galactus.

A ten-gallon jar of mayonnaise

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux)

gotta duck when the shit hits the fan

I always think it's funny when you (invariably) see someone checking out with, like – a crate of oranges, a bag of frozen chicken, a big box of crackers, and a giant-screen TV on a pallet.

― stylized in all lowercase (morrisp)

i mean, i did a big shopping order this weekend... a bunch of clothes, 400 heartburn pills, and a "Fun Patriotic Honest Abe with Cotton Candy Brooch", with "a fun color palette of cotton candy pink and baby blue". (that color palette almost reminds me of something...) so that's probably me you're seeing at the costco.

You can buy a Solar System at Costco? Someone tell Galactus.

― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes)

if costco had life on it, i might find my wife on it

To clarify, it's the TV that I find funny... as if it's an "impulse buy" (I know it's not). Heck, if I was picking up a TV at Costco, I'd probably also grab whatever else we need.

sometimes you kind of have considered getting a new tv and it's walking through the front door of costco directly into that display of beautiful 77" lg oleds that triggers the purchase

a crate of oranges, a bag of frozen chicken, a big box of crackers, and a solar system on a pallet

Galactus sometimes likes a healthy snack between planetary meals... they never show that in the comics.

Does every Palestinian in Gaza support Hamas? OF COURSE NOT! But did we poll every Iraqi to find out whether they supported Saddam before we went into that country?

i...um...

And standing up for human life… Whoo-hoo! Aren’t you admirable, aren’t you taking a risk, saying you don’t want people to die. I never thought of that, how insightful, how innovative. No!

no!

Let me see… Someone keeps breaching your property line, do you just take it?

Wait, which side are on you, Bob?

isn't this dunce supposed to be a music writer?

Oh he’s so much more

And when it comes to ticketing... I heard a lot of inside information from the source, one on one, but you weren't there and I can't repeat it. The code of the road, the music business is a club and if you're not in it, you don't know. And most of what's worth knowing never hits the news. But you could get so much in conversation in Aspen.

I always forget this guy exists, were it not for this thread occasionally activating. Is he an AI? Does he just live in an underground bunker somewhere?

I get his emails but don’t always read more than the subject line. Peter Frampton emailed him I see

Queen Latifah? I've got nothing against the woman, but she's definitely a B-level artist.

She's literally been nominated for more Oscars than Billy Crystal

I respect Rénee Fleming, but it’s not really my bag.

just the dumbest man alive

A variety show with dancing and singing? They’re already gone from regular network TV, the idea of appealing to everybody went by the wayside

- literally some of the biggest shows in the world are dancing and singing performance shows

I do not remember this time 10 years ago when the young people of the world got together en masse to live tweet the Kennedy Center Honors

It must be a terrible thing, to have lived too long.

terrible for us at least

Dreadful

I'm stunned how much feedback I got about "Killers of the Flower Moon." If I'd written about a record I would have gotten a fraction of the responses. It seems more people are familiar with Scorsese's movie than the music of Taylor Swift.

sir you are 70 years old and your readers are even older

https://Twitter.com/carlzoilus/status/1749625426559877310?s=46&t=m63acfIIT8JsOyy5v_2nJw