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The World's Best Saffron Coming To Costco In May

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Starting in May, you'll be able to buy the world’s best saffron from Spain's Castilla La Mancha region at your local Costco. Just one question remains: How long will it take to use up a Costco size pack of saffron? The world's best saffron — at Costco? When I got home I spoke with Costco buyer Gary Kotzen. "We're really excited about this," he said, incredulous that I had been in one of the very fields where Costco's "next big thing" was being harvested. But I was equally incredulous. How could this truly artisanal specialty food find its way into my local warehouse store? "We want the best of the best, and we want to offer it to our members without them having to pay the premium," Kotzen said. "We'll bring it in, package it ourselves and offer it to our members at about one third or even one fifth of the cost of similar saffron . . . We did the same thing in 1997 with Tuscan olive oil." By mid-April, or perhaps early May,

Kirkland Beer: Costco To Sell Its Own Beer

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I hope it comes in a 250 pack! Costco looking at selling own line of beer Costco Wholesale Corp. has applied to sell its own brand of beer, according to Bloomberg News. The Kirkland Signature label applications for pale ale, amber ale, hefeweizen and a lager were approved last week by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau. Bloomberg reported Costco already offers Kirkland Signature wines and is one of the top sellers of wine in the U.S. Costco to Become a New Name in Battle of the Brews The big brewers have fretted that decades of copycat, chucklehead advertising has reduced their biggest-selling brands to indistinguishable commodities in the eyes of many consumers. Now they may be reaping what they've sown: Costco, one of the nation's largest warehouse retailers, is readying its first line of private-label beers. One analyst said said the rollout of Kirkland Signature Hefeweizen is most likely to hurt sub-premium brands. The retailer has filed label applications with th

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