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    Post The Enduring Enigma of Costco's $1.50 Hot Dog and Soda Combo

    The Enduring Enigma of Costco's $1.50 Hot Dog and Soda Combo -- The price hasn't changed in 35 years - what kind of sorcery is that?

    When Costco president W. Craig Jelinek once complained to Costco co-founder and former CEO Jim Sinegal that their monolithic warehouse business was losing money on their famously cheap $1.50 hot dog and soda package, Sinegal listened, nodded, and then did his best to make his take on the situation perfectly clear.
    "If you raise [the price of] the effing hot dog, I will kill you," Sinegal said. "Figure it out."

    Taking his words to heart, Jelinek—who became Sinegal's successor in 2012—has never raised the price on Costco's hot dog. Incredibly, it has sold for the same $1.50 since the retail club first introduced the dogs to customers in 1984. The quarter-pound, all-beef tube and 20-ounce soda combo appears to be inflation-proof and immune to the whims of food distributors. How does Costco do it?

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    Simple. When it comes to hot dogs, Costco doesn't price according to what the market will bear. They price according to their own cost and according to the value the hot dogs can afford them.

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    I wonder if the hot dogs they sell packaged in the store are the same as the ones they sell at the food court.

    https://www.costcobusinessdelivery.c....11896624.html

    Before Alice Cooperstown here in Phoenix closed a couple of years ago, they had a two-foot-long hot dog on the menu named after Randy Johnson - called "The Big Unit".
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    Easy, this guy warms them up.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Standing Wolf View Post
    I wonder if the hot dogs they sell packaged in the store are the same as the ones they sell at the food court.

    https://www.costcobusinessdelivery.c....11896624.html

    Before Alice Cooperstown here in Phoenix closed a couple of years ago, they had a two-foot-long hot dog on the menu named after Randy Johnson - called "The Big Unit".
    I have bought them and they are the same. They carry the large buns.

    That is a great dog!
    I am tired of everyone fighting with each other. This is all by design.

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    One might wonder what kind of sorcery goes into the hot dogs...
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    Quote Originally Posted by texan View Post
    I have bought them and they are the same. They carry the large buns.

    That is a great dog!
    Well shoot...I wish I'd read about this earlier. The wife just made her twice-monthly Costco run yesterday.
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    I have never been to a Costco.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DGUtley View Post
    I have never been to a Costco.
    I went with a friend once. You buy in bulk there. Since leaving home, I have never lived in a place big enough to buy generally in bulk.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister D View Post
    One might wonder what kind of sorcery goes into the hot dogs...
    These are 100% beef. That's why they are so good.
    I am tired of everyone fighting with each other. This is all by design.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DGUtley View Post
    I have never been to a Costco.
    Great place to shop.
    I am tired of everyone fighting with each other. This is all by design.

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