Posted on 05/04/2020 9:35:34 AM PDT by blam
Costco is following Kroger’s lead and temporarily limiting the amount of meat its members can buy in one trip.
In response to consumer shopping habits amid the coronavirus health crisis, Costco announced over the weekend that it would be implementing product limitations on its beef, pork and poultry.
“Costco has implemented limits on certain items to help ensure more members are able to purchase merchandise they want and need,” the warehouse club wrote on its Updates and Coronavirus Response page. “Our buyers and suppliers are working hard to provide essential, high demand merchandise as well as everyday favorites.”
For members, this means being able to purchase only three fresh meat items from the stores’ beef, pork or poultry selections.
Costco’s latest policy is just one of several implemented amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Last week, the chain announced that customers would be required to wear face masks as of Monday, May 4. The company had also limited the amount of guests a member could bring inside the store, and changed its hours of operation. (On Friday, however, Costco announced that “most” warehouses would be returning to normal operating hours this week.)
Costco did not disclose its specific reasoning for limiting meat, specifically, though industry analysts and insiders have been warning of possible meat shortages across the food-supply chain since early April. Several of the nation’s larger meat-processing plants, including those operated by Smithfield Foods and a Tyson Foods, have since been forced to close in response to coronavirus outbreaks or staffing issues created by the crisis.
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I was at Kroger over the weekend and their meat and poultry supplies looked good. I have not been to Costco in over a month since they started making people line up outside to get in.
No worries here. I’ve cancelled my Costco card after 30 years of membership and won’t be returning due to their hysterical Chicom flu tantrums.
Time to fire up the grill and lay down some of that delicious plant-based meat grown in labs by our globalist betters!
The MSM fanning the flames of the next fire.
To stop the corona crisis, masks need to be applied to the MSM. Well, specifically gags.
Thanks to Dr Death Fauci and “The Scarf” Birx our economy has tanked
and food shortages are now starting.
What chaos these two hacks have created.
Most people do not know that Costco is owned by hard core leftists.
Publix and Walmart in Ocala, FL have been doing that a few weeks now. Strange as there is plenty of beef and pork but ZERO chicken!! And still low or none on TP...
My new endeavor is to never buy meat at places like Walmart or COSTCO again.
What coronavirus has revealed about America’s meat supply-chain
- Its highly centralized to squeeze every penny of cost. This is to allow commoditization with huge retailers like Walmart, COSTCO, etc… to serve the debt of everyone in the chain.
- Of course, this extreme centralization and monopoly results which results in “factory food” and causes extreme fragility of the supply-chain.
- As we see now, this system exposes American farmers. They never signed up for this risk, but they are getting screwed nonetheless.
- The business can’t be exported, so being good corporate globalists, they instead bring foreign labor to their plants. Every major meat-packing plant is 100% staffed by Somalis, Hondurans or Guatemalans. The poorest of the poor
- Wages are low, so the families of these immigrants live on SNAP, Medicaid and Welfare. Meatpacking labor is another government subsidy to Agri-business.
I can buy meat from local farmers, who process it at one 1000s local, family-run slaughterhouses. I know every can not (or will not) do this, but from now one, 100% of my business is going to these people.
2020...Chinese "Year of the Rat"
...more like, year of collusion WITH the demon'rats(and moonbats).
Can you smell overstock and nice Sales coming
“No surprise. We’ve been expecting this news. “
Agree, that’s why us non-FluBros stocked up on meat well in advance.
Today Costco is mandating that every shopper wear a mask to enter their store. I will not be entering their store.
“Most people do not know that Costco is owned by hard core leftists.”
The reason most people don’t know it is because it is not true!
“This is great because now we are doing our part at stopping global warming.”
Funny..or really not very funny..how much of this virus nonsense we are doing these past couple month almost parallels the Green “New” Deal...and or puts our freedoms on hold..supposedly temporarily?
I was at Sam’s Club last week late, they were doing the same. Bought a 10+lbs beef brisket, SWMBO sous vided it for 48 hours, and my son seared the slices. YUM!
There are gaps in the meat display and there is a clear fluctuation in re-stocking; it's no longer fully stocked.
There are also 'holes' in shelves for rice and rice products. Eggs and cheese are also no longer fully stocked.
Product shortages appear to vary by location but meat products are increasingly in short supply.
It isn’t true? I thought they were very left wing. I reluctantly joined recently after years of Sams Club. Costco’s fresh food selection is so far ahead I finally gave in. Sams and Walmart haven’t been exactly beacons of conservatism the past decade so I made the leap. Who is Costco’s ownership? This would make me feel better.
“It isn’t true?”
Nope. Costco is a publicly traded company.
It's a lot easier and cheaper to act the fool and buy up all the supplies of toilet paper, hand sanitizers, paper towels and than it is meat.
Plus a sizable percentage of people have no clue what to do with raw meat cuts.
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