Rotisserie chicken in bags

[AnnaS]

Picked up two chickens yesterday here in DE (my daughter's house) and still using plastic containers. Perhaps once they have exhausted the plastic containers they will start using the bags. They are using new packaging for the wraps. Cardboard bottom and the usual plastic cover.

 

[Passepartout]

Picked up two chickens yesterday here in DE (my daughter's house) and still using plastic containers. Perhaps once they have exhausted the plastic containers they will start using the bags. They are using new packaging for the wraps. Cardboard bottom and the usual plastic cover.

If I came across one (or more) of the old hard plastic containers, I'd wash it out and re-use again for a while.

 

[GetawaysRus]

I'm wondering if Costco is selling the same number of chickens as the "pre-bag" days. I haven't seen any stats, but the last time I was in a store I did see a large number of chickens sitting on the counter awaiting purchase. That's anecdotal, of course.

My sweetheart hates the bags. Our Costco chicken purchases are way, way down.

We were in a local Sam's Club recently and I spotted chickens in plastic containers. Her reaction: " you've struck gold!"

 

[davidvel]

I'm wondering if Costco is selling the same number of chickens as the "pre-bag" days. I haven't seen any stats, but the last time I was in a store I did see a large number of chickens sitting on the counter awaiting purchase. That's anecdotal, of course.

My sweetheart hates the bags. Our Costco chicken purchases are way, way down.

We were in a local Sam's Club recently and I spotted chickens in plastic containers.

I can see that one would prefer the tubs over bags, but you're not buying the chickens (as much) because of the bag? I know they are not so healthy, but we can't live without them, bag or not.

 

[dioxide45]

I am still kind of curious how this is impacting the ability for staff to package the chickens. I would have expected Costco to put a lot of research behind this, but I would think that having to hand hold each cooked bird to put it into the bag isn't as fast as slipping them off into the black bottom of the clamshell?

 

[Passepartout]

I'm wondering if Costco is selling the same number of chickens as the "pre-bag" days. I haven't seen any stats, but the last time I was in a store I did see a large number of chickens sitting on the counter awaiting purchase. That's anecdotal, of course.

My sweetheart hates the bags. Our Costco chicken purchases are way, way down.

We were in a local Sam's Club recently and I spotted chickens in plastic containers. Her reaction: " you've struck gold!"

Since Costco (claim to) lose money on every chicken sold, how deeply do they care? The bags save them a bundle over the plastic shells. They can ship 1 pallet of the bags that would take 7 pallets of the hard shells. They can come across as 'environmentally conscious'.

You can betch'yer bippie that the Costco bean counters know exactly the effect of bagging chix has on Sam's Club.

We still buy a chicken darn near every time we go to Costco. My cardiologist wishes they'd sell a lower sodium version.

 

[pittle]

I did not write this - it was in the comments about the Costco Rotisserie Chicken in an article about 2 weeks ago. The person that created it did a great job.......

In the aisles of Costco, oh what a sight,
The rotisserie chicken, once wrapped up so tight,

Now sits in a bag, all floppy and sad,
And I can’t help but think, “This is truly quite bad!”

"I do not like Costco chicken in a bag,
I do not like it, not one little snag.

I used to grab a whole bird, golden and hot,
But now it’s all squished, like a chicken in a pot.

The bag is too flimsy, it leaks and it drips,
And my car smells like poultry, oh the horror it grips!

I miss the old days, when the packaging was neat,
Now it’s like they’re serving chicken defeat.

So here’s my plea to Costco, oh mighty store,
Bring back the old way, I implore!

Give us back our rotisserie chicken delight,
And let it soar free, in its original flight."

(copilot's "Green Eggs and Ham" version of Costco chicken beef)

 

[isisdave]

We bought one yesterday. A half-chicken in a bag takes up way less space in a tiny RV fridge. So far, that's the best think I can say about it. You pretty much have to take the chicken out of the bag to cut it, which was not true with the shell. I guess if you're going to cut it all up at once, you could tear the bag and leave the bird on it while you do that, but it pretty much requires a carving board then.

Talk about first-world problems. We've gotten soft.

 

[joestein]

You could probably cut the sides of the bag to get to the chicken easier. I haven’t seen it yet but i am not sure I like the bagged chicken. I also don’t go for the corporate lie about how it uses less plastic and they are somehow saving the planet. They do it to save money. Nothing else.

Whenever someone says it is not about the money.... you know it is about the money.

 

[Wingo99]

It's not that bad, easier to just cut the bag top off at or below chicken level, the gusseted bags open pretty wide. Our grocery store has used them for years.

 

[alwysonvac]

Thought about this thread as DH was cutting up our Costco chicken for salad this week while we’re in Maui.

 

[WaikikiFirst]

Last week, my wife bought a pigeon in a bag at costco. She said the other bags had hummingbirds.