{"id":51123,"date":"2024-03-11T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T11:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=51123"},"modified":"2024-03-05T09:13:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T15:13:59","slug":"the-joy-of-costco-by-david-susan-schwartz-illustrations-by-martin-hargreaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-joy-of-costco-by-david-susan-schwartz-illustrations-by-martin-hargreaves\/","title":{"rendered":"The Joy of Costco by David &#038; Susan Schwartz, illustrations by Martin Hargreaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davenportlibrary-bett.na2.iiivega.com\/search\/card?id=318eca3a-f27a-540f-9545-e755268c5fcb&amp;entityType=FormatGroup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-51202 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/costcojoy.jpg?resize=162%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"162\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Borne of a love of all things Costco, a husband and wife duo created their own press and were given backstage access to Costco for this casual read.\u00a0 \u00a0 In all, they visited 200 of Costco&#8217;s 850 worldwide locations.<\/p>\n<p>Skim for a couple hours, you&#8217;ll be able to amaze your friends with tidbits such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Costco parking spots are 2ft wider<\/li>\n<li>They sell 11 million eggs per day<\/li>\n<li>Starbucks roasts all the Kirkland brand coffee<\/li>\n<li>Costco sells 7x as many hotdogs as all MLB ballparks combined &#8212; at $1.50 of course, a doff of the cap to the same high prevailing price from 1985.<\/li>\n<li>The record for hotdogs, incidentally, FAR from middle America&#8230;Shin Masato Japan with 64,512 hotdog combos in one month.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Speaking of baseball, one of the coolest features of this book is the <em>inside baseball<\/em> of their internal processes and terminology, i.e. &#8220;the cage&#8221; and &#8220;deathstar&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0Costco employees are incentivized to find\u00a0 ways to reduce costs, internally known as a &#8220;Save Story&#8221;.\u00a0 Mere tweaks to packaging and pallets, for example, result in seismic shifts to reduce CO2 emissions and landfill waste.<\/p>\n<p>Due to Costco&#8217;s sheer size, they have incredible negotiating power as an entity.\u00a0 Enter CWI, (Costco Wholesale Industries), a manufacturing subsidiary solely to reduce costs on products such as glasses, hotdogs, and ground beef.\u00a0 Ostensibly, this benefit is exercised to pass the value on to members.\u00a0 You don&#8217;t have to have a Gold Star membership to check <a href=\"https:\/\/davenportlibrary-bett.na2.iiivega.com\/search\/card?id=318eca3a-f27a-540f-9545-e755268c5fcb&amp;entityType=FormatGroup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>The Joy of Costco: A Treasure Hunt from A to Z <\/strong><\/em><\/a>out of our collection, either.\u00a0 \u00a0Heck, we won&#8217;t even check for your card at the door.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Borne of a love of all things Costco, a husband and wife duo created their own press and were given backstage access to Costco for this casual read.\u00a0 \u00a0 In all, they visited 200 of Costco&#8217;s 850 worldwide locations. 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