Saturday, April 12, 2008

Could a Giant Warehouse Be Your Your Healthy-Food Store?

Yes—and here's the argument for the Costco diet
by Scott Mowbray

I live in a gigantic city and generally shop for my food every day in small, independently owned stores, but sometimes I visit a suburban town in Colorado and shop in a gigantic chain operation: Costco.

This particular Costco is about the size of the hangar in which they assemble Boeing 747-400s, and it disrupts any known supermarket routine; you can’t follow the "shop the perimeter" rule of healthy-food buying or you’ll be eating tires, televisions, and gallon jugs of hair conditioner. Last week they seemed to be selling a tent large enough for a platoon, a sample of which was hanging from the roof. Continue reading »

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