Leafing through the latest Costco supplement, I came across these two products:
(1) A tub of ARK meals, enough to supply a person with 2,100 calories a day for a month. (15-year shelf life.)
(2) A system with enough food to provide 2 people with 2,000 calories a day for 3 months.
Now maybe Costco has been selling this stuff for years and I just never noticed. But I’m pretty sure that these kinds of items have never appeared in the company’s circular–which is premium space.
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I’ve been seeing those Costco ads for at least six months, probably a year. I’ll get really worried when they graduate from selling freeze-dried strawberries to offering Kirkland-branded spools of concertina wire and variety packs of several thousand rounds of 9mm and 5.56.
They’ve been in stock since 1/20/09.
The new SKU is the radiation suit with instructions in Farsi.
We still need the bunk beds.
Those would be found at the Leave it to Beaver Costco in Anywhere, USA.
In another – unrelated – measure of the national mood, have you noticed that lay-away has made a comeback? I remember layaway from my childhood. I thought of it as a Lucy and Ricky era thing. But whether because of declining disposable income, or reduced access to credit, or something else, I’ve heard more ads for it than I have in years.
survivalism coming to costco. Hmm…It may be time to stop worrying…contrarian indicator and all. America is going to be back soon…you watch.