Costco is in the fire of buyers to get rid of this popular product
The wholesale retailer seems to have upset thousands of loyal customers.
Unbeatable bulk offers to the favorites of the catering area, Costco hasmanaged to build A cult over the years. But even the most dedicated fans of the big chain had their scruples with the retailer, whether it is aprice increase or new store policies. After all, Costco buyers are members, which reflects personal participation in the company, and they are not afraid to make their complaints known. Now, the popular retailer is again faced with reactions from buyers again - this time with regard to an article which he seems to have completely got rid of. Read the rest to know why Costco is under fire.
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Costco got rid of a number of things recently.
Costco is no stranger to change, in particular in the face of retail uncertainty of recent years. In March 2020, the big chain began to offer special senior hours to help buyers at risk and front -line workers without crowds to reduce their styled exposure. But while Costco has kept this special purchase time for much longer than other retailers, the retailergot rid of the hours in April this year.
And last month, Costco put an end to another service he launched during the pandemic. The wholesale retailer closed hisMortgage program for members, which had started in 2020. There did not seem to be huge decline at that time, but another loss strikes a nerve with customers.
Buyers are now complaining about a different deletion from Costco.
A new viral publication on social networks shows how many Costco buyers are upset about another abandoned article - this time with regard to the emblematic catering courts of the chain. On June 15, aThe Twitter user wrote, "Who ... at Costco was like yeah we will get rid of the combo pizza." In just five days, the tweet has already collected more than 13,500 likes and has been retweeted almost 3,000 times.
Other buyers sounded in responses to the viral post, some who simply discover the withdrawal themselves from the tweet and others claiming that "cocovated supply chain problems" were to blame for the stop. "If there is one thing that I would bring back from any food place, it would be the combined pizza of Costco," admitted a user.
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The retailer would have interrupted this article some time ago.
Despite the recent tumult, this is apparently not a new Costco decision. The news of the disappearance of the combination of the large dates of the pizza of the chain in large dates until March 2020, whenA buyer published on Reddit That several Costco stores in their region no longer sell the article in the catering area. Since then, there have been at least a dozen Reddit sons asking for the cessation of combined pizza.Eat this, not that! contacted Costco in September 2021 to confirm that the pizza combohad been permanently interrupted, but the company refused to comment.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
But on June 20, a buyer in one of the Reddit Threads said he received this response by Costco e-mailAfter offering comments On the apparent judgment: "We understand your dissatisfaction not to have the pizza combo as part of our menu offer for the moment. A difficult decision has been made to simplify our company and, unfortunately, the Combo pizza has been deleted From our range of menu. We are sorry for this drawback, however, these are not always easy decisions that we make. "
Buyers always petition Costco to bring him back.
No matter when the article was officially withdrawn from Costco restoration courts, it is clear that the decision did not go well with thousands of buyers. In a response to the viral tweet of June 15, a user suggested: "We have to petition to bring him back." It turns out that it is already in progress. On Change.org, there isCurrently an open petition "Bring back the Combo pizza to the Costco catering grounds" which has been signed by more than 11,300 people so far - with signatures always added to June 20.
"Costco's combined pizza is the most popular pizza variant and the overall article in the Costco catering area," wrote Tobi O., a resident of Riverside, California, who began the petition. "The Costco company cites problems of profit and cost, but they could have easily dealt with the problem via a price increase. Not renewing their membership in Costco because of this parody."
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