Costco members want popular item only in Canada brought to the US
FlickrMembers are calling for a popular item sold at Costco Canada to grace US food court menus – and it’s super cheap.
US-based Costco customers are calling on the company to release its ever-popular Canadian chicken fingers and fries baskets ($6.99 in CAD) in the US, which they contend is a much cheaper alternative to regular takeout food.
To put into perspective how cheap this meal deal really is, and why it has generated such high demand – if you were to order a 4-count strips and fries with a drink at Chick-fil-A, this would cost you upward of $11.30, depending on location, especially in larger cities such as New York.
In a viral Reddit post, people raged over the fact that they couldn’t take advantage of the Costco meal deal, writing: “Why the hell doesn’t Costco USA have french fries or chicken strips? I would kill for that!”
“Literally every single non-US food court menu is better than the US one,” another said frustratedly.
Some theorized that the reason the chicken fingers weren’t coming to America was because it would be “Just too smart of a move.”
According to a survey on Statista.com, 66 million Americans say chicken tenders are the frozen-chicken variety they consume the most, while 73 million Americans regularly eat chicken nuggets. So it’s not for a lack of popularity that the chicken fingers are yet to grace menus.
Costco hasn’t responded to consumer demands regarding their Chicken Fingers, so US customers might need to take a road trip in the meantime to sample the meal deal.
There’s another item that Costco-members are going crazy over – but this one’s available nationwide across the US. The Banana Cream Pie sold by Costco weighs a whopping 3 lbs.