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Re:The Agony and Ecstasy of Costco by _manifold on Monday May 06, 2024 @02:21PM (#40277807)
Personally I've found that "well curated" sometimes becomes a double-edged sword in Costco's case. Mainstream brands can be expected to be available perennially; however, smaller/niche items and brands will often get cycled out or replaced by something else which may or may not be comparable.

Many times I've found products at Costco that I enjoy, only for them to suddenly stop carrying them a week or a month later.

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Re:The Agony and Ecstasy of Costco by professoretc on Monday May 06, 2024 @05:33PM (#40279755)
A typical grocery store will carry on the order of 40,000 unique products. Costco is hard limited to a max of 3,700 unique products. If a store wants to bring a new product in, something must be rotated out. This also means that if a product wants to stay in Costco, it has to sell a certain minimum number of pallets, per month, to be worth it.
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