{"id":217,"date":"2014-05-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yule-tide.generalsemiotics.net\/index.php\/2014\/05\/08\/post-210-korea-costco-comments-your-pizza-and-bake-are-too-salty-its-serious\/"},"modified":"2014-05-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T00:00:00","slug":"post-210-korea-costco-comments-your-pizza-and-bake-are-too-salty-its-serious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/2014\/05\/08\/post-210-korea-costco-comments-your-pizza-and-bake-are-too-salty-its-serious\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-210: Korea Costco Comments: “Your Pizza and Bake are Too Salty! It’s Serious”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I once had a Costco Korea membership. That was January 2013 to January 2014. I used it at the Ilsan and Youngdeungpo stores a few times. My conclusion was that Costco Korea’s negatives outweigh its positives. The prices are not better than the other “marts” like HomePlus or E-Mart, and you have to buy in bulk. It’s also a chaotic atmosphere in there. Visits are stressful, and it’s a long trip there.<\/p>\n

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The positives about Costco are:
<\/span> (1) The availability of certain specific American products unavailable or very expensive anywhere else,
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Ilsan Costco foodcourt prices — 2,000 [$1.80] for a hot dog and soda <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
In general, the food court is hearty, delicious, and cheap. Hot dogs, pizza, chicken bake, etcetera. A pretty heaping meal can be had for $5 a person. (About half of the Korean patrons of the food court shamelessly pile up small mountains of onions [meant to be a light topping on the hot dogs] onto their paper plates. This is a strange habit.)
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Costco in Korea has a place for “How are we doing” comments, which they publish: <\/div>\n
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The Korean says: “Dear customers, our business kindly wants to hear your opinions.” <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
Here are some comments they had posted during one of my visits. I photographed the comment sheets. They are under the glass, right under the red arrow in the photo above. I include the translations into English that were provided by the store, verbatim:
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Park wrote:<\/span>
<\/span>Your pizza and bake are too salty. It’s serious.Pls, make them less salty.<\/strong>
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Han wrote:
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Cho wrote:
<\/span>Pls, build a Costco in Yangju.<\/strong>
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Hotdog sausage is too salty to eat. Pls, improve it.<\/strong>
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A combination pizza is too salty. Pls, make it less salty.<\/strong>
[Korean illegible]<\/span> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When I park at outdoor parking, I have to pay parking fee. Why we have to pay membership fee and parking fee together?<\/strong>
[Korean illegible]<\/span> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Six comments, and one is a complaint about a warranty, which is not the store’s responsibility. Of the remaining five, three are about the food being “too salty”. Costco provided a response something like: “We use a standard recipe from from headquarters and we are not able to change it”. I guess this is a polite way to say, “If you don’t like it, take a hike!”\n<\/div>\n
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Costco Ilsan [Korea], front door I once had a Costco Korea membership. That was January 2013 to January 2014. I used it at the Ilsan and Youngdeungpo stores a few times. My conclusion was that Costco Korea’s negatives outweigh its positives. The prices are not better than the other “marts” like HomePlus or E-Mart, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}