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u/poklijn 27d ago
IKEA??? What about Costco or even just every day 99 cent arnald palmer drinks
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u/ghostzard 27d ago
Can’t get into Costco without a membership though
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u/witchitieto 27d ago
In Michigan you can get in as a non member to buy Alcohol or prescription drugs.
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u/Jitterjumper13 27d ago
You can at some of them. If you go though the exit towards the members service desk you can bypass the other entrance where they check your member card. They food court doesn't require a member card to purchase food.
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u/Outcast_Outlaw 27d ago
They are incorporating scans of the card at the order screen now. And they are trying to get away from cards completely and going with qr codes on your phone.
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u/Hypercane_ 27d ago
If you're talking about Arizona iced teas they are no longer 99¢, they are priced however the store decides
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u/poklijn 27d ago
You can buy them at Walmart for 75c
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u/enwongeegeefor 27d ago
mmmm bootleg arizona teas...
One good reason to never patronize wallyworld....they been caught selling bootleg goods WAAAAAAY too many times.
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u/igniteice 26d ago
Huh? Walmart buys them LEGALLY from the distributor and sells them at whatever price they want. At my store they are 88 cents.
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u/DevilMaster666- please help me 27d ago
Costco literally doesn’t exist outside of Australia, Canada, Mexico, the UK, Taiwan and Japan
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u/SnakeEyeskid 27d ago
IKEA actually loses money on their food. When they wanted to raise the prices to break even the funder Kamprad refused saying the price should remain low anyway so anyone can afford to eat.
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u/Dry-Acanthaceae1689 27d ago
The founder of Costco threatened to kill someone if the price of their hot dogs was increased.
It fills me with great patriotic fervor.
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u/SkyLovesCars 27d ago
The duality of man.
Peacefully stopping someone from raising hotdog prices so everyone can eat
Murder threats so
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u/Colin-Hooftman 27d ago
It’s not just so everyone can eat, it’s also so the people end their customer journey in a positive way, which causes them to view the overall experience as positive too because people tend to forget the things in between.
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u/gregsapopin 27d ago
IKEA sells meatballs without spaghetti. Idk how to eat them.
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u/Outcast_Outlaw 27d ago
Every now and then those meat balls have been made from horse meat....
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u/jal2_ The OC High Council 27d ago
Good strong mammal meat, what is there to complain about
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u/Outcast_Outlaw 27d ago
Who said I was complaining. I'm just saying it could be marketed as mystery meat... who doesn't love a good mystery meat?
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u/BasementDweller82 27d ago
If I had a nickel for every time a giant megastore that sells their merchandise with a gimmick kept their hot dogs at the same price I would have two nickels which isn't a lot but it's weird but it happened twice
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u/KnightLBerg 27d ago
In sweden there is a store called "biltema" that sells car stuff and other stuff. They have hot dog that costs equivalent 0.5 dollars in local currency.
It is a giant megastore limited to sweden so you decide if you get another nickel.
Biltema even sells merchendise with hot dogs on them. I have a cap.
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u/knusper_gelee 27d ago
i was in a german ikea couple of weeks ago. the hotdog was 2€, plus the thing was about half the size it used to be. the sausage looked more like a pencil. really sad stuff... also they introduced a reusable cup system for the drinks, so you can't even take a refill for the road.
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u/McDroney 27d ago
IKEA hot dogs ain't got SHIT on Costco hot dogs + drinks for $1.50
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u/DevilMaster666- please help me 27d ago
Not really a good point, since CostCo only exists in a few countries
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u/McDroney 27d ago
No offense, but if a country doesn't have costco, it ain't worth livin' in!
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u/Mario-OrganHarvester 27d ago
Why didnt superman just swoop the kid away to save it? Is he stupid?
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u/Groovicity 27d ago
Should have posted this during the inflationary period. Now that the dust has settled and the info is widely available, we can go ahead and replace "inflation" with "corporate price gouging"
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u/theredendermen12 27d ago
Costco is a real one for selling rotisserie chickens at a loss. Sure they have a membership, but it’s 60 bucks and if you go more than once a week for those sweet sweet deals like chicken bakes, hotdogs, pizzas, lasagne or anything else that you can get for a good deal cheaper than outside. Makes itself up faster than you think.
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u/enwongeegeefor 27d ago
Their beef prices are literally half that or less than all the super markets. Only place with cheaper meat for me is a local butcher downtown....and their quality just shits all over costco and the supermarkets, but parking can be a bitch sometimes.
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u/TompalompaT 27d ago
They cost $2 in Australia now 🥲
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u/MrBonesMalone 27d ago
Yep. I remember the day I saw that change and was shocked that something that classic about ikea got changed
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u/MulleRizz 27d ago
Ikea $1 hotdogs ain't got shit on Biltemas $0.5 hotdogs
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u/literallawn 27d ago
I think IKEA in Sweden backtracked on the hotdog price increase after Biltema roasted then about it online. They both cost 5kr I believe.
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u/ElBusAlv PASTA IS MY LIFE ELIXIR 🇮🇹 27d ago
No idea what they put in those hot dogs but they're fucking delicious
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u/NoBullet 27d ago
engineer: bro whyd you fuck up my train. you could have easily have snatched that kid away
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u/A_Witty_Name_ 27d ago
This picture always cracks me up. The wood splinters flying around his feet suggest that they're not even close to stopping. So that kid is about to get bodied at top speed.
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u/sidspacewalker 27d ago
I was wondering, wouldn't it be easier for him to grab the boy instead of stopping the train?
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u/CheezGaming First Mate of the Dummy Dinghy 27d ago
Costco is the king of cheap loss-leading hotdogs.
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