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A pack of 8 hotdogs is what, like $3 at the most and the buns are another $3. So selling 8 hotdogs you spend $6 to make $12 and that’s doesn’t even account for the insanely cheap bulk prices they must be able to get for hotdogs and buns. Even if you factor in labor costs and condiments I can’t see how they lose money. This is why we shop there. Not for the electronics or the clothes, books or shampoos. It's for the best hotdogs and pizza around. My dad goes to Costco for the hot dog, then comes home with $500 worth of man sized stuffed bears... Sigh... Buy it:  Mickey I Am Not Feeling Very Worky Today Shirt

The meat from this $1.50 hot dog comes from a CAFO. The real cost is the workers who work in unsafe working conditions, the animals who live in deplorable conditions and the environmental devastation of huge CAFO sewage ponds, so large you can see them from space you, and off gassing tons of methane into the atmosphere ... Maybe it's time to rethink 'cheap' meat? The amount of times I’ve gone to Costco and spent $200 on shit I didn’t need because my wife and I wanted a $1.50 hot dog for dinner is proof this man knew what he was talking about Buy it:  I Act Like I'm Ok But Deep Down I Just Need To Go To Philadelphia Shirt

My 80 year old father and I drive 5 miles to Costco, just for a hot dog and a soda. The line is always 30+ people deep too. Everyone I know loves Costco's hot dogs, they are pretty good. A buck fifty to get that kind of foot traffic inside your store for a hot dog is just damn good business. The ONLY way anyone is "losing money" on a $1.50 hot dog/soda combo is because the customer might have otherwise bought something more profitable. No one is actually selling a hot dog and soda at a loss when charging $1.50, they simply are profiting less than they could. Buy it:  Fear Not For I Am With You Isaiah 41 10 Shirt

My 80 year old father and I drive 5 miles to Costco, just for a hot dog and a soda. The line is always 30+ people deep too. Everyone I know loves Costco's hot dogs, they are pretty good. A buck fifty to get that kind of foot traffic inside your store for a hot dog is just damn good business. The real deal with Costco is buying gasoline from them. Its so damn cheap. Fill up your car, park it, shop, grab a bite, its what keeps me going back. But for once I'd like to leave that place with a receipt that's actually less than 100 bucks.. Buy it:  Jesus Love You But I Don'T Go Fuck Yourself Shirt

I worked in the Costco food court, the hotdog/polish dogs were insanely popular - AND it includes a 24oz beverage. The dogs are an area I don’t see Costco cutting costs on any time soon; however they have ditched many other less cost effective items and sent them to the food court graveyard. Including, but not limited to Chocolate Yogurt Many, many more... More sad news to report: Last time we went to Costco, my partner ordered a chicken bake... IT WAS THE FROZEN KIND! Not the kind originally made from scratch every morning. You haven’t seen disappointment until you’ve seen a grown man fooled by a second rate chicken bake . Buy it:  Good Wainwright Molina 2020 Shirt

There was a documentary a few years ago about costco and it was revealed that the fee you pay to be able to use costco pays for ALL of there overhead which means every thing that goes out the door is more profit than most other companies. In marketing course I took many years ago (around 50) it was said that a 25% markup usually covered your over head for the average company. So the hot dogs are probably mostly profit. Buy it:  11.3.2020 The Day Nasty Women Save America Shirt

I dont even believe they are "losing money on it". You think a fucking hotdogs costs costco more than a dollar fifty? You're fucking trippin. Every single employee is already there and making orders for customers and making an hourly wage. Even if you factor in the cost of wages vs time spent on making hotdog and the cost of materials, its a fucking hotdog. We're talking 1 minute to warm up something they took out of the package that costco already sells. Buy it:  Don't Judge Me I Was Born To Be Awesome Not Perfect Shirt

I know many people who have gone for the hotdog, and "just browsed around" at the deal and leave with a huge purchase. It is not a money loser through the right optics and should be considered a perk of a paid membership, much like 2 day delivery with amazon prime. Costco is a pretty legit company that takes care of its customers and employees but it just goes to show you that even Costco is a few bad apples away from everything changing. If they were that close to raising the prices on a hot dog, what would’ve been next? Buy it:  Mess With Me I Will Fight Back Mess With My Texas Wife They Will Never Find You Body Shirt

It's not altruistic though. The hot dogs bring foot traffic and they only need a tiny fraction of them to decide to go shopping to make it worth it. The real problem is that so many decision makers these days don't give a damn about things like that because it's not easily measurable and doesn't give immediate benefits. I mean it's like a loss leader but in reverse. I always get it at the end of my shopping trip. A $1.50 hot dog after somehow managing to spend $650 on groceries and other shit sounds like a fair tradeoff. Buy it:  My Mind Still Talks To You And My Heart Still Looks For You But My Soul Knows You're At Peace Shirt

I'm surprised at how many places pay their workers above minimum wage. The Sheetz (a regional gas station chain based in PA) near my house starts people at $1 per hour (according to the sign on their door). Friends' daughter, with literally NO experience just got a job waiting tables where she makes $20/hr after tips. Even Walmart is starting people at $12. I'm sure that there are places which pay minimum, but I don't know why anybody takes those jobs when there are better alternatives out there, even for people with no experience at all. Buy it:  Me Normal How Dare You Insult Me Like That Shirt

I'm here to tell you, those things also create some of the most god awful disgusting bowls of hell burps. I had a kid that used to work for me, college age, so technically not a kid, but I guess to me. We were in my car to go pick up some supplies, when this putrid smell just slapped me in the face. I mean tear inducing vomitous, fumes. I asked what the hell is that fucking smell? And from the back seat I hear this guy say, "I had a Costco hotdog for lunch, sorry I burped!" Buy it:  Hippotenuse Adjacite The Math Hippo Shirt

There is a reason behind this, the cheap concession stand food, as well as the $5 rotisserie chickens, have stayed largely the same price since Costco's inception, for the expess reason that people can count on those low prices, thus getting them to go in and buy lots of other stuff that Costco does make a marhinal profit on, though the big money comes from the memberships. And something I should do more often and have done more when I was younger I have gone for a hotdog and left with nothing. Because all I had was 1.50$ Buy it:  Physiquemant Je Suis La Dans Mis A La Montagne Shirt

There is a reason behind this, the cheap concession stand food, as well as the $5 rotisserie chickens, have stayed largely the same price since Costco's inception, for the expess reason that people can count on those low prices, thus getting them to go in and buy lots of other stuff that Costco does make a marhinal profit on, though the big money comes from the memberships. That hot dog is a great way to get people into the door. You spend a little money to make more money. It’s a minimal loss, but the rewards are far greater. And it’s a conversation piece too.  Buy it:  I Know I'm Just A Rotmile If You Cry Shirt

Back when I was in college, we had the $10 Costco food court challenge which was to purchase and eat a minimum $10 worth of food from the food court. It should be more manageable now with inflation and the bigger menu, but I'm still unsure if I could do it. The CEO was playing the long game, while the President was focused on short term gains. You use the food court as a loss leader. Get as many bodies in the building to stay in the building and buy more product. Buy it:  Yes Hes Hunting No I Dol Married No Hes Not Imaginary Shirt

The ceo of costco also goes into disguise and walks around random stores and listens to the customers and employees. Met him once but didn't realize it. He asked me acting like a customer if I enjoyed my jo at the time I was seriously just a box runner. I told him I did and I'm working to be in the seafood department because I love to sell the food and help pick out stuff for people. Next day the store manager told me about him and said I start the department that afternoon. Will never forget to that. Buy it:  I Love How Coffee Fixes Evere Headache Drink Coffee Shirt

I could believe that a standard chicken and pork frankfurter might be 20 cents at wholesale. But Costco serves 4oz all beef franks in their hot dogs. Based on some Google Fu, I'm finding 75 cents to be a more reasonable cost per serving for those. That alone puts your numbers in the red. I work at Costco. They will never change the price. It brings in so much business. People freak out about them. Plus after you spend $300 on groceries, it doesn’t feel that bad paying for lunch that’s only $1.50. Buy it:  I Like Wine And My Greynd Maybe 3 People Vintage Shirt

The texture is a bit mushy, but I don't judge it harshly for that. It's a cheap hot dog and cheap hot dogs generally don't have a casing to give it a snap. The relative lack of salt and complete absence of paprika on the other hand are harder to forgive since without those, hot dogs just taste like what they actually are: blended, emulsified meat cast offs pressed into a tube shape for easy insertion directly into one's face. Ikea's food is shockingly cheap, and some of it is actually pretty tasty. Not the hot dogs, though. Those taste like, I dunno, sadness? Buy it:  Pumpkin Breast Cancer In Octo Wear Pink Shirt

That's a lot of dogs. Random googling would say that wholesale costs for a hot dog would be $0.20, the bun $0.10, condiments $0.10. $0.40 for the dog. Even with soda tax figure cost for the dog and soda including labour might be $1.10. Thats $0.40 revenue prophet profit times 100 million, that's $40M from hot dogs which require almost zero brain power AND offer all of the intangible benefits and customer satisfaction from the article. Today, Costco sells over 100 million hot dogs annually, which is more than every MLB stadium combined. Buy it:  March Girls 2020 The Onere The Quarantined Shirt

In canada the hotdog was $2.50 CAD. Then a visiting American tourist noticed and wrote a letter to complain. Now our hotdog is $1.50 CAD which is about 90 cents USD. So we get it even cheaper. Its the best thing America has ever done for us . I worked international import for a major retail chain that branched out into grocery/produce. They forecast losses on these shipments even if they sold 100% (not factoring in spoilage or damaged goods). They did this knowing the consumer would come in for food but also ended up leaving with merchandise. Buy it:  I Know I'm Just A Pitbull But If You Fele If You Cry Shirt

This is exactly my wife and I experience every time and she has always called it that. Everything's 10 dollars! No truer words spoken from a random on the internet. I'm sure she bribes me to go with her knowing I get a hotdogs and drink at the end. Jim Senegal is (was?) awesome. I met him back in 2002 when I was working there. Was leaving the warehouse as he was walking in and he stopped me, asked me my name, and if there was anything I thought we could be doing better. I was too dumbfounded to offer a useful critique. Buy it:  Cats Happy Hallosmas Shirt

But whenever I walk by the produce/bakery/dairy section I'm like, "Is everyone shopping here from a seven-person household? How can anyone eat that many grapes before they spoil? Who drinks 3 gallons of milk before it goes bad? Who are these people? What are these people?" Love getting a hot dog, poutine and a coke for $6 after you drop $400 shopping on an empty stomach. Then you can drive home with a stomachache and question your purchase of a 5L jar of pickles that probably won't fit in the fridge. Buy it:  Pitbull Assuming I'm Just Ar First Mistake Shirt

My mom will go to Costco once a week. Probably spends about $200-$300 per trip. We have a family of 6 (1 being our dog), but I would say my brother eats 40% of our groceries himself. We do live right next to a Costco (in Alberta) which might explain why we frequent it so much, but she also goes to Superstore at least once a week and my dad will go to Safeway for air miles. No idea why we spend so much on groceries I love Costco. My wife and I just had our first kid and the savings on diapers and wipes alone pays for the membership. Buy it:  Teacher Music Put On A Happy Halloween Shirt

My mom will go to Costco once a week. Probably spends about $200-$300 per trip. We have a family of 6 (1 being our dog), but I would say my brother eats 40% of our groceries himself. We do live right next to a Costco (in Alberta) which might explain why we frequent it so much, but she also goes to Superstore at least once a week and my dad will go to Safeway for air miles. No idea why we spend so much on groceries I haven't worked there in over 5 years so numbers could be totally different, but that's what I recall. Buy it:  Cat Any Man Can Be A Faial To Be A Black Cat Dad Shirt

In my area, it lasted a couple of years. I fondly remember riding that .39 cheeseburger train from senior year of high school right into the end of my freshmen year at college. When that deal stopped, it was a dark time indeed. Lots of canned meat and Raman. Toilet paper, paper towels, napkins, deodorant, toothpaste, tin foil, spices, canned food, frozen foods, etc. All those non perishables. It feels great when my house is stocked up with all that stuff and I'm not caught in and endless cycle where I find myself without toothpaste or TP or whatever. Buy it:  Awesome Drew Brees 149 T-Shirt

It’s a good burn remedy. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve burned the top of my hands on the top heating element of the oven. Every time I do, I’ll slap some mustard on the burn and it helps reduce the inflammation. In the mid-1990s, McDonalds had their hamburgers priced at 29 cents and their cheeseburgers at 39 cents. I don't remember how long that lasted but I do remember the Jack in the Box commercials making fun of them for it. Buy it:  Cross Eye Walk By Faith Not By Sight 2 Corans Shirt

God that sounds disgusting. I love Sonic but no one should be stopping twice a day. My uncle still gets that massive cup of Powerade from sonic everyday, and refills a few times. He says it’s healthier than water! And yes, he is now diabetic! And fried chicken. Part of the reason I go to the grocery stores I do, is that they always have fresh fried chicken, or rotisserie, and they have enough cut deli stuff that I can grab it and not visit the deli counter. Buy it:  Yes I Do Have A Retirement Plan I Will Be Beekeeping Vintage Shirt

This is a salient point that can be expanded to also include the fact that getting food delivered is waaay more expensive than going and picking it up yourself. Everyone takes a cut of the delivery and passes that onto the customer. The number of deliveries is up, but money that would likely be used for repeat trips are being eaten up by delivery fees. And again, all of it is being spent on low-margin food items instead of money-making drinks. It also doesn't work well with people catching onto how many calories are really in drinks now and hydro homies starting to take over. Buy it:  Cat The Phantom Of The Opra Shirt

You can make an extra buck marking up food but if you don't sell all of it the waste and spoilage catches up. Better to have double the amount of opportunities to sell a bottle of wine at a 400% markup than making an extra 10% on the few people that come to buy your overpriced food. Yup, and this is also why the lockdowns are hitting restaurants so hard. 'But more people are getting food delivered!' - people eating at home are far less likely to order beverages, let alone higher margin items like alcohol (assuming it is a state/region that even allows alcoholic beverages to be delivered). Buy it:  Jesus Love You But I Don'T Go Fuck Yourself Shirt

I used to be a restaurant consultant and the key to any food establishment is to break even or take a loss on food to gain more beverage sales. If you sell a fountain soft drink per every two customers that order a hotdog youre not losing money. The goal is to sell your food for cheap so you can stay ahead of spoilage and waste but also to drive up the amount of customers so you have more swings at selling profitable items like fountain soda and things like cookies and chips. Restaurants aiming to turn a profit on EVERY item are essentially doomed to fail. Buy it:  Good Wainwright Molina 2020 Shirt

At this point the unchanging price is practically a marketing expense. This fact is a fun popular thing to share that seemingly showcases Costco's goodwill. Just good brand management that definitely worth the small loss on each hotdog. Right? And just think of how a small increase in the hot dog price would cause ripples throughout the Costco customer base. EVERYONE would be talking about it and how it’s a shame they couldn’t keep the price the same. Buy it:  11.3.2020 The Day Nasty Women Save America Shirt

"We're a store that specializes in selling bulk items. You know, stuff that people stock up on, then don't need for a while. We should absolutely get rid of an item that encourages people to come in more regularly, what could go wrong?" Due to its popularity, you could probably adjust to inflation and slightly increase the price of the staple goods that attracts customers, such as selling hot dogs, without losing customers and purchases. I assume the president made that suggestion, but the CEO/founder didn't wanna take the risk. Costco's success story verifies that he picked the right approach rather than the greedy/risky route. Buy it:  Changing Lives One Session At A Time Shirt

I remember back in the day McDonald's did this in Canada with their toonie Tuesday promotion. 2 dollars for a big mac. But of course you'd wanna buy a drink and some fries and that's how the get ya Toonie Tuesday died such a slow undignified death at KFC as inflation took its course. First it was $2 after tax, then it was $2 before tax, then it was $2.22 before tax before they finally put it down. 2 Big macs for $2 was the deal we had here in Chicago for a long time in the 90's and early 2000's. Got me through my high school and college days. Buy it:  Education Is Important But Welding Is Importanter Vintage Shirt

She scanned my bottle and then lightly took my hand and just said, "Oh honey, you know it doesn't have to be like this?" and we both looked at each other and cried for a moment and she gave me a hug and I left to go back to my sad apartment across the street. I don't remember a lot from those years but I remember that clear as day. I didn't go back to that store again. I started tapering down my drinking and within a month I had my first sober days in years and 7 years later I have not gone back. Buy it:  Los Angeles Dodgers Vs Los Angeles Lakers Hearts Shirt

Back when I was drinking I used to go to the same liquor store every single day and get the same bottle of cheap whiskey. I would always go to the same checker because she was nice and would smile at me despite how awful I felt stuck in that loop. One day I came in on a particularly rough day, disheveled and with a black eye. I put my bottle on her checkstand and tried to muster a smile while she did the same until her eyes suddenly started to well up. Buy it:  Hockey Dallas Love We Are Not Going Home Vintage Shirt

Granted, a couple hundred came from splurging, like getting some chimichurri marinated tri-tip, 4 incredible NY strip steaks, some nice deli meat, massive packs of chicken for all our dinners this week, one to freeze for next week, etc. Yeah the one on Tallahassee, FL definitely does. I'm always embarrassed cause I buy handles of jameson for my SIL quite frequently and it's always the same Costco team member at the register, who is always professional, but in my mind he must think I'm such an alcoholic. Buy it:  Philadelphia Eagles Vs Philadelphia Phillies Hearts Shirt

Just got back from spending almost 800eur at Costco Paris today. Most of the stuff was products for our home (paper towels, T.P., laundry/dishwashing detergent, etc.). In the city, we would get 1/2 the amount of what we get at Costco for 2-3x the price. Seriously. We save some good money because we only make a trip like once a year, but everything we buy lasts us for the year too, and we never have to worry about buying soap, toothpaste, shower gel, shampoo, etc. Buy it:  Black Cat Witch Never Underestimate An Old Lady Who Has Magic Halloween Shirt

I saw an outdoor food court when I was in the San Diego area last summer. Thought it was a good idea, then remembered I live in Arizona and it would be a terrible idea for large parts of the year. Maybe they could cut costs and bake the pizzas on the sidewalk. Could be state or local laws that force that. I can go into Sam's Club and buy alcohol, tobacco, pharmaceuticals or have an eye doctor appointment without a membership because state law prohibits it. Buy it:  LGBT Fight For The Things You Care About Ruth Bader Ginsburg Shirt

The Italian sausage with the peppers and onions was where it was at, but sadly it’s gone too. I just hope they’re working through a menu revitalization and kept the staples until they figure it out. When compared to other countries, the American food court is lacking. They got rid of the Nachos Supreme too. Which makes no sense to me because you know they have all of the ingredients. They can still make the chips and cheese and the Nachos Bell Grande. Buy it:  Black Cat I'm Not Lazy I Just Rolled A Low Initiative Shirt

I think it would create issues amoung the lines of "Wait God can directly talk to us? What about Metatron and the Pope and the entire God being a being we humans can not comprehend thing? Was that a lie? Does that mean God has a form now? Or at the very least a voice?" It would collapse a large portion of Theology, both modern and old as all of a sudden there's answers to questions and more questions that we had never even considered. Buy it:  Notorious RBG 1933 2020 Woman Belong In All Places Where Decisions Are Being Made Shirt

My favorite is still Ilan Ramon asking for advice on when to celebrate the Sabbath while in Low Earth Orbit given that there's a new sunset every 90 minutes. They still had an answer. Apparently, the question had come up before during 19th century polar expeditions (where there are months of continuous sunlight) and at the time they had argued that a person should defer to a clock synched from the last possible accurate time source, which in turn was a counterargument to a centuries older discussion on when to observe the shabbat if trapped in a cave. Buy it:  New York Giants Vs San Francisco 49ers Hearts Shirt

He had an answer for that. Apparently, destruction of God's name only applies to non-temporal surfaces, so tracing the name in sand on the beach or holding the name written backwards up to a mirror and then taking it away don't count, and therefore neither does the name on an electronic display. Ancient explanations for modern problems, it's pretty crazy. I once asked my Rabbi, "If Judaism forbids the destruction of media containing God's name, does it permit minimizing windows on a computer?" Buy it:  Official Meowdy Cat Cowboy Hat Shirt

So the applying the story seems to say God wouldn't have jurisdiction on how to pronounce English over the written guidance in the Torah, but in recent America, we seem to allow people to have their names pronounced any way they feel like, so precedent would be to allow God to set the pronunciation. If the only thing it did was to correct a pronunciation and left, no one would care and things would quickly go back to normal. If it tried to come back as a human, the evangelicals would quickly try to crucify it. Buy it:  Good Son Of Fishes Catch Fish Or Die Shirt

It also took them 40 years to walk through an area that can be crossed on foot in a matter of weeks, if you’re taking your time. At some point I’d be wondering how strong this connection with the one true god really was too. Scientists have extended our lifespans by decades, allowed for us to travel faster than the speed of sound, be able to leave our planet entirely and still come back alive in what is essentially a comet made of metal, and created foods that go unspoiled for decades. All of this, and still, nobody listens to them when they try to help us. I can see why God got so fed up he finally just told Noah to get the ark. Buy it:  Jesus Love You But I Don'T Go Fuck Yourself Shirt

Judiasm does have an agreed upon pronunciation. The answer is "it's none of your business". The true answer has been lost to time, when the romans killed the two people (the high priest and his apprentice) who knew how to pronounce the tetragrammon. I feel like if I was God, and I had made a tree walk and reversed a river to prove a point, and people still weren't listening to me, I'd start smiting them with lightning in the next step and see if they're still being smartasses after that. Buy it:  Awesome Wainwright Molina 2020 Shirt

Yeah that's the problem. Obvious if there was a Jod they would know how to convince me they existed, but I can't think of a single way for a Jod to reveal themselves to me and I don't simply think my brain fucked up or some other phenomenon happened that was not Jod-based. This ask reddit is kind of how real Jewish/Christians religions couldnt agree For a long time on how Gods real name YHWH should be pronounced. Buy it:  11-3-2020 The Day Nasty Women Save America Shirt

Anybody who's played a city builder game knows that once things reach a certain point, you turn to messing things up for everyone. Make some ridiculous celebrity type person in charge of the nukes. Poison the water. Set a bunch of fires. Initiate some riots. Or maybe I'd think "well, looks like the simulation theory was right, and now they're bored and just messing with us", which given the past couple of years isn't such a crazy theory! Buy it:  Nice Always Give A 100 At Work Shirt

It really depends, did we all SEE Jod for ourselves, or are we taking someone's word for it? Cuz if the pope came out and announced that he alone had this vision my opinion probably wouldn't change much since i already have my doubts about the pope. But if a massive group of people said it, maybe that would be different. Was it a group of people in one place? Cuz in that case it could be a massive group hallucination, but if people all over the world started saying the same thing on the same day that would definitely cast more doubt over the situation...  Buy it:  Perfect Meowcrobiology Shirt

The whole "real name of God" thing is silly, just human beings wanting to believe that they're much more powerful and important than they are. Wondering what happens to that sort of thinking when we finally meet our first aliens, and discover that we're not the pinnacle of creation? Or of existence, as the case might be?  Multiple people replying saying that it would confirm "Jod" exists. No it wouldn't. It would still be spelled God, just pronounced differently than we thought. Buy it:  Beer Deer Make Me Happy You Not So Much Shirt

As for what God's name really is - if He exists, how could He possibly have one? We're talking about somebody has been present in the Universe from its beginning, and exists outside of it, beyond the bounds of space and time. Why would some collection of sounds that just happen to be easy to pronounce by a collection of barely jumped up apes on an insignificant planet be His name, billions of years before the planet said apes live on even existed? Buy it:  Original Pr Coqui American Flag Shirt

No, it isn't. Yhwh just means "I am." This was the answer given to Moses after he tried to get God to tell him His name. The Egyptians, I understand, had a belief that if one learned the true name of a deity, one gained power over the deity. One finds this belief showing up in the story of Ra and Isis. In this cultural context, Moses' actions can be seen to be quite dishonorable, by our standards - he's trying to trick God into putting Himself at Moses' mercy. The answer God gives is not his real name, it is stern correction being given to a human who has far out-stepped his bounds. Buy it:  Black Cat Paw Reading Revealing All 9 Lives Since 1692 T-shirt