Just tried these for the first time from TJ's and you are absolutely right!

TJ’s are better than most cafes in the US for nearly $1 each, too good.

What a coincidence, just had one of those. Don't want to be a shill, but no need to order online. 4 for $5 at Trader Joe's.

Costco has tasty and cheap frozen croissants

Are these the ones they bake? If so, would I ask them or are they in the frozen section

they are in the frozen section. They usually come in box with 30 pieces.

Curious why and how this is something that needs to be done online. Frozen food sounds like a bad thing to order online.

Fair question. I live in Japan. Frozen deliveries work reliably, and I don't think we'd have frozen croissants at the supermarket.

I order from a store that seems to mostly serve cafes based on their order sizes (their other products are things like a 13kg box of butter).

Where I live, if you order frozen food online, they're delivered by a courier specialized in delivering frozen goods (like UPS but only accepts frozen parcels and delivering them using refrigerated trucks).

Now: put one in a waffle iron and sprinkle with brown sugar before dropping the lid, for a killer Croffle

This one is a big win. I (occasionally) buy Costco croissants and reheat them in the air fryer. It takes like 3 minutes on the 320 degree setting for a perfect experience.

Do you use the "air fry" setting or a reheat setting?

I use a button with the icon of a bread on it. I guess it is air fry since my air fryer seems to only have one mode with fan and heat both on. That defaults to 320f, 8 minutes, which is far too long in my experience. Temperature is about right, you want it as hot as you can go without burning.

Costco will generally sell you the unbaked bakery items.

Best croissants I've ever had in the States were from frozen (albeit from a local bakery, not from the grocery store).

If your oven has an electronic timer, it should have a function to finish at time x, so you could even wake up to done ones. Great, for coming home from work to perfectly slow-cooked ribs, for example.

Same, but with an air-fryer it's just 10 minutes from frozen to done, so I usually pick them from the fridge, put them in the airfryer, boil some tea-water, and then have tea and croisants for breakfast in 10 minutes.

We buy these via local grocery delivery (FreshDirect) and they are parbaked. Straight from freezer to over and they come out very good.

Are these already baked then frozen, or raw pastry? I used to work in a cafe where we'd bake croissants from frozen (raw pastry) and they were pretty great.

Raw pastry

Which ones did you order? I have no idea where to even look for them.

The only problem is this: a random croissant once a week as a treat is negligible to your overall calorie intake, but a daily croissant means you eat croissant for breakfast every day. Huge difference. In the book "French Women Don't Get Fat", one of the things that the author points out is that our invisible daily habits are the biggest factor in our calorie intake. If your commute walks you past a donut stand that you cannot resist, change your commute.

Of course if you have a well-worked-out diet and matching exercise plan that accommodates a daily croissant, this is great (with the air fryer).