Cigarettes
Since 2016, Costco has slowly removed all cigarettes and tobacco products from sale. In fact, a Costco spokesperson declared that tobacco is more of a low-margin business, and it tends to have higher theft rates. In some cases, it’s also labor intensive (depending on the local municipality regulations), so Costco decided to use that space to sell other items.
The truth is that nowadays it is harder to buy cigarettes than ever, and that’s mostly because all the recent health initiatives encourage retailers to stop selling them. Some grocery stores might still sell them, but most outlets decided to stop.
I loved the combo pizzas, and haven’t bought any of their pizzas since they quit selling the combo years ago. It was a huge disappointment. I am planning on trying Sams combo now that I’m a member there as well.
Keep saying ok to what the government tells you what to do, business big mistake. Run your own buiness or government will put you out of business
We really do like and enjoy Costco. They provide excellent products a fair prices and even they are a large store, shopping there is a pleasure.
Eliminating most of these items from their stock is a huge mistake in my opinion, especially the polish hotdog, combo pizzas, and roundup, a product I use to control certain highly INVASIVE weeds. Control of undesirable plants (kudzu, ivy (poison), creeper, etc) in urban properties is certainly a worthy community supported effort. Also, if eliminating the chocolate dipped cone means eliminating soft serve ice cream and their sundaes, its a disastrous business decision — if keeping loyal (over 30 years) customers is a thing Costco wishes to do. This is depressing news!
Sam’s Club, here we come!
Bought Urban Star for Hubby, did not like them at LL, I NEED TO THINK WHY. I tried to write Urban Star, to no avail. Will get back to you soon!!!