{"id":703906,"date":"2010-03-29T15:08:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T19:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003841"},"modified":"2010-03-29T15:17:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T19:17:57","slug":"why-everyone-loves-costco-small-selection-good-quality-low-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/703906","title":{"rendered":"Why Everyone Loves Costco: Small Selection, Good Quality, Low Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/3-29-2010%203-01-29%20PM-thumb-224x155-38693.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>ABCNews took a look inside the mysterious world of Costco. Why does everyone love it so much? Turns out the secrets are simple: Small selection, good quality, low price.<\/p>\n<p>From ABC:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We keep our selection down so we can get the most out of it and offer the best value, the best price,&#8221; Long said.<\/p>\n<p>The store only offers about 4,000 unique products for sale at any one time. Compare that to a typical supermarket, which carries about 40,000 products, or a Wal-Mart store with about 125,000 products.<\/p>\n<p>Costco&#8217;s buyers hand-select each item, like the more than 200 varieties of wine sold at many Costco stores, making them the largest wine retailer in the world. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> AIso, in addition to wine, Costco sells<em> a lot of nuts.<\/em> The only product it sells more of than cashews is toilet paper. Interesting stuff.<\/p>\n<p>\nDo you shop at Costco? Is it worth the membership? Do you seriously buy toilet paper and cashews?<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/GMA\/YourMoney\/costco-succeeds-discounts-selection-secrets-americas-favorite-stores\/story?id=10212150&#038;page=1\" >Inside Costco: Secrets of America&#8217;s Favorite Stores<\/a> [ABC]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABCNews took a look inside the mysterious world of Costco. Why does everyone love it so much? Turns out the secrets are simple: Small selection, good quality, low price. From ABC: &#8220;We keep our selection down so we can get the most out of it and offer the best value, the best price,&#8221; Long said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2X7k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}