Costco Business Center--Prepper's Paradise?

[funkymonkey1111]

Anyone been to the Costco Business place on Alameda? It's where the old Lowe's used to be about 1/2 a mile East of Federal.

When people joke about Costco/Sam's, etc., this is really the place they're talking about--this is truly the place of the 5 gallons of soy sauce.



This place is larger than a regular Costco and even has different hours (7-6 M-F, 7-4 Sat, closed Sunday). It's got a lot of the same stuff as a regular Costco, but also more commercial stuff for restaurants, office supply, etc. There's no food court, no freebies, etc. But what they have frequently is larger sizes of the stuff you might need for preps, etc. They actually have full frozen lambs, too:



The walk-in freezer is larger than the average Walgreens--in fact, they anticipate you'll be in there long enough that they provide coats for you to wear.

One thing they have is giant containers of spices, obviously for a restaurant. Why do you need 4.5 lbs of dried onion? Well, if you're making rubs, etc., you go through a lot of it. 8 ounces is $6 at Wal-Mart. Here's 9X that amount for $13.



What's interesting is the place is a ghost town. This was at around noon today. Probably fewer than 10 people in the store.



Also, since there's nobody there, the employees seem to jump at human contact--i wheeled up to the check out and both lanes were open--and both tried to get me to come to their lane. Didn't even have to unload the cart.

[Irving]

I've been to one in Nevada before, we were in a hurry and they didn't have what we needed so we didn't stick around to check it out. I thought it was restricted to those with commercial accounts; is that still the case?

[funkymonkey1111]

I don't think so--I don't have a commercial account and had no problem.

[Jonsey]

Full frozen lambs? I am kind of into that. Do they have huge bags of good quality salt?

[funkymonkey1111]

Full frozen lambs? I am kind of into that. Do they have huge bags of good quality salt?

I can't say that I saw any, but wasn't looking, either.

Yes, full frozen lambs

[Jonsey]

Wow. Sounds like it is worth a trip just for the fun of it. Thanks.

[Shooter45]

A few months ago I was in the Parker Costco looking for bags of salt. Spoke to an associate when I couldn't find any and he told me to visit the Costco Business Center. Have yet to go there but expect it to be there. They furnish supplies for restaurants and no restaurant is going to buy salt by the ounce, they'll buy it by the 5 gallon buckets.
from what I saw you didn't need a business license to shop there neither; just regular membership.

[Great-Kazoo]

You want bulk buying w/out having to pay any membership fees.

Shamrock foods
http://shamrockfsw.com/

That costco (minus the color coded racks) looks liks a SFSW. Only a lot bigger. Those shamrock places are maybe 1/4 in size

[O2HeN2]

Most importantly, did they have Hershey's Chocolate Syrup in the 8 lb can? I miss Sysco down here in the 'springs for that reason.

[Great-Kazoo]

Most importantly, did they have Hershey's Chocolate Syrup in the 8 lb can? I miss Sysco down here in the 'springs for that reason.

Shamrock did, up in ft collins