How Much???

[Lazy-Ferret]

Today, we decided that as we were passing, we would call in at Costco and pick up a few odds and Sods... That was a bad Idea, as half the UK had decided to do the same thing.... one of the workers told us, they had had 520 people enter the store by 9:15... they open at 9:00 to shop, but the checkouts don't open till 10!!!

So, having endured the closest thing to hell I ever want to be, with people everywhere (I don't do crowds), and half of them deciding to stop at the end of every isle, blocking it off with their trolleys while they exchange pleasantries, we finally make it to the checkout.

Standing at the checkout, the guy in front of us, only has one item...

Now, as I presume most people do, when standing in a supermarket queue, I can't help but look at what other people have bought, which can always conjure up amusing scenarios, especially in Costco, as people buy things in Bulk. You see things like a trolley full of Spam and a mega pack of toilet rolls, another will have 8 crates of beer, and 8 cans of Diet Coke, or the one on another checkout today, without going into too much detail, a lady had 4 crates with 24 boxes in each crate of ladies sanitary products... they were all different grades???? That's 1152 individual items!! But she did have a giant bottle of Orange Juice, and a couple of bottles of wine to go with them!!!

Anyway, I decided that the best thing to do was to concentrate on our checkout, so I looked over at the guy in fronts item... A nice juicy cut of Steak... I looked at it, and thought, wow, that would last our ever hungry ferret kitts, Sherbet and Toffee, a couple of days, I wonder how much they would like something like that as a Christmas diner....

Now I do have to say, Costco meat is very good, they trim it properly, and if is not something they are considerably cheaper than the likes of Tesco, then they are similar in price, but the quality is far superior.

So, I am surreptitiously checking out the guy in front's meat... Ooo errr... "Stop your tittering!!"... Then for some reason the price of it caught my eye....

Now I know steak is an expensive cut, but... £51.20 for a lump of steak that was nowhere near the size of the pork joint we often buy... Ouch

I guess Sherbet and Toffee won't be getting that from Santa!