The worst thing about croissants is how cost prohibitive they are. One bakery that is much closer to me than any grocery charges $6 for the plains and $7 or up for the flavored croissants. I can stomach those prices maybe once every couple or three months. I don’t buy TJs croissants because they are superior. I buy them because they are affordable and taste fine. It’s a very apples to oranges comparison. The same is true of Costco croissants.
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I would posit though that a bagel and a croissant discussion are very different. I would easily spring for a better bagel because the best bagels locally or only a bit more than a buck each. Croissants, 6-8 bucks each. So shortcuts happen more often there in terms of trading cost for quality.
I really don’t know how, or even that, this became in any way a comparison between bagels and croissants. I’m assuming you’re saying that there’s a value component to buying at Costco…… something I wouldn’t disagree with.
Yes. Only that because good bagels are generally much cheaper than good croissants, it is a lesser “sin” to buy croissants at a grocer rather than a bakery.
I never see anyone buying the overpriced cheese at WF. Their Parmesan is $23.99 lb, same thing at Costco is $12.49 lb.
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My Costco has great Parmesan cheese!
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In defense of my local Costco lot, the parking spaces are wider than most in my area.
Mine, too, and yet people in my area still manage to park in the voluminous spaces all catty-wampus, take up the entire space and still manage to spill over the lines. Maybe it’s because a lot of them learned to drive on a tractor.
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The lines move fast. Remember each queue has three servers (sorry leftover terminology from my operations research course).
Yes, that happens here, too. At least here, the lines are double to encourage centering.
At my local Costco lot, there are a few end spaces that are even a little wider. Whenever I snag one, damned if, when I come back, someone hasn’t still encroached.
I ascribe a lot of this lack of care and etiquette to Driver’s Ed no longer being taught in schools.
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The newer Costcos I’ve been to seem to have bigger lots than the older ones.
Here in NJ that’s not a problem. 
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Our Costco often has the previous day’s rotisserie chicken, quartered (though all I seem to see are legs/thighs), half a dozen pieces, for $3.99 (IIRC).
The one near me takes it all off the bone and bags it up. Looks a little weird but a lot of people
buy them, I’m sure for all kinds of things.
Have not seen them quartered up tho.
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Maybe they’re taking the white meat off the bone and bagging the dark meat as is here.
Maybe, I’ll pay more attention on my next trip. My faulty memory remembers it being the entire bird.
But it was a while ago!
They also debone, or is it “demeat”?, their rotisserie chicken for their chicken noodle soup.
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… and also for their chicken pot pie.
And their chicken enchilada casserole.
Yay to the Dungeness crabs, which they usually carry during the big holidays. We buy a few packages and vacuum seal them. It’s the only place we can find them in NJ.
