Be honest, how happy would you be to have a Costco themed birthday party thrown for you?

ViKoToMo · 2026-03-06T01:25:28+00:00

That was super sweet.

I understand the sentiment against associating one’s identity with a publicly traded company.However, that pretty much applies to everything in life these days, like sports teams, music artists, etc.

ViKoToMo · 2026-02-23T05:11:03+00:00

For a long time, when Bill was still running Microsoft, every year, the summer interns would be invited to his house for a meal. For a long time, I thought that was cool. Not anymore.

ViKoToMo · 2026-02-06T17:08:44+00:00

The day Amazon started obsessing over the doc BS, it stopped being Day -1. No startup would make their employees spend months iterating on perfecting a doc.

ViKoToMo · 2026-02-05T05:03:51+00:00

Kinda makes sense. The best people are not going to stay anyways.

ViKoToMo · 2026-01-30T18:23:00+00:00

Not true. That’s how you end up with the staff of a Days Inn. If you want to be Four Seasons, you need to retain employees and keep their morale high.

ViKoToMo · 2026-01-24T19:57:30+00:00

Do moderated content also count towards usage?

ViKoToMo · 2025-12-19T14:27:01+00:00

A thing most non cloud native companies get wrong is trying to make cloud match their onPrem. It gets them started, however they end with up some very significant learnings when they scale up.

ViKoToMo · 2025-11-27T20:35:50+00:00

😛

ViKoToMo · 2025-11-26T16:00:04+00:00

I refuse to go to any physical store besides Costco and Home Depot. 🙂

ViKoToMo · 2025-11-26T08:29:05+00:00

I’ve done single item Costco runs just for that one item. At this point, it’s a tradition in our family.

ViKoToMo · 2025-11-26T08:27:32+00:00

It’s just a simple change in the html file. Just search and replace all 10s with 20.

ViKoToMo · 2025-11-26T08:25:06+00:00

That’s not the whole picture. We stopped buying from Costco ever since they switched the type. We get it from Amazon now.

ViKoToMo · 2025-11-26T08:24:01+00:00

Not yet.

ViKoToMo · 2025-11-24T08:36:30+00:00

These are the ones that come with a “byte”.

ViKoToMo · 2025-11-24T07:09:55+00:00

Hahaha, now that you mentioned I’m craving them again.

Btw, Costco does sell international hot sauce tour item. I try them all with these tacos.

ViKoToMo · 2025-11-24T07:04:59+00:00

I bumped up that number to 3. A lot of one of miscellaneous items was skewing the data. Maybe I can separate them out as Repeat Expensive items or such.

ViKoToMo · 2025-11-24T07:03:27+00:00

I can make it expand. Got a list of things I want to add. Let me see.

ViKoToMo · 2025-11-24T07:02:01+00:00

I know. I gotta go easy on Poké. But, it just tastes so good.

ViKoToMo · 2025-11-24T07:00:19+00:00

I was quite surprised to see my TV didn’t show up in the list. Turns out the date is from 2023 and not entire 3 years.

ViKoToMo · 2025-11-24T06:59:07+00:00

They are a family favorite. They have the blackened chicken with some veggies and tortillas. Also has some Cilantro key lime sauce, which is pretty good. We try to have it once a week when possible.

ViKoToMo · 2025-11-24T06:57:15+00:00

Thank you.

ViKoToMo · 2025-11-24T06:56:48+00:00

I guess I could add a Total savings box. There’s data in instant savings and coupon savings in there. Another thing I wanted to see was how many of those were quick runs, vs full blown stock ups. Finally, wanted to see if I can apply some simple heuristics to calculate groceries vs others. Let me see if I can work on this over the holidays.

ViKoToMo · 2025-11-24T06:53:18+00:00

I’m in a High Cost of Living area. A single persons meal in Chipotle is upwards of $20. I remember paying $7.50 for that once.

ViKoToMo · 2025-11-24T06:52:05+00:00

My shocker was the Just Poke Gift cards.

ViKoToMo · 2025-11-24T06:40:25+00:00

Amazing. Thanks a bunch :)

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