'Thanks, Biden.' A lawmaker criticizes president after spending $800 at Costco

[Zorro]

Rep. Stefani Lord came out of a Costco Wholesale store with a big bill and wasn’t too happy about it.

The New Mexico Republican took to Twitter to post her receipt — $799.38 for 58 items — as she sarcastically thanked President Joe Biden.

Link to tweet

She declined to itemize the receipt, but insisted the bulk of the purchases were for food like chicken thighs and frozen broccoli, or for small items like paper towels and razors.

The store identified in the receipt is in Albuquerque, where there is a state tax of 5% and a city tax of 2.75%. Given that food isn’t taxed in the state, she spent about $207 on the non-food items.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-lawmaker-lights-up-twitter-by-saying-she-spent-nearly-800-at-costco-83d45631

I think Ms. Lord should learn to control her spending habits, or avoid shopping at Costco in the future.

[Casady1]

1. Costco is a union shop

She should go to sam's.

[TheBlackAdder]

35. Hmm. I'm not seeing an itemized receipt for us to scrutinize. I guess that was planned.

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Normal thinking people would show the whole list, not just the total summary.

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[tanyev]

2. And her guests really enjoyed the wine and caviar party.

[ret5hd]

5. Probably some crudites were involved.

[Harker]

36. And crudities. n/t

[lame54]

40. And a big screen tv

[tavernier]

26. Bingo.

[nini]

3. Bulk items will do that

But why be honest when you need to bash Biden.

[Walleye]

4. Sounds like she had plenty of money to go shopping, thank you Biden

People complaining about spending their own money, I don’t get it. Most of us have to budget

[TwilightZone]

6. Bullshit

The fact that she won't provide the receipt makes it obvious that she bought some high-ticket items that she's trying to pass off as "chicken thighs and broccoli".

[newdayneeded]

9. there's probably a 55" tv in her cart.

[ProfessorGAC]

41. First Thing I Thought Of, Too

Or a 20# box of lobster tails.

[Freethinker65]

7. Costco employee could enter that bar code to see what exactly she bought.

My bills at Costco are never that huge, but I expect somewhere around $100 for 6 to 10 items, excluding meat and that was before Biden. It's Costco; the sizes are huge and you often come back with some unintended items.

[phylny]

8. Kudos to this detective work!

"The store identified in the receipt is in Albuquerque, where there is a state tax of 5% and a city tax of 2.75%. Given that food isn’t taxed in the state, she spent about $207 on the non-food items."

[doc03]

10. She could have bought around 45 one pound of rib-eye steaks along with chicken

thighs and frozen broccoli. She is living high on the hog as they say.

[Oopsie Daisy]

11. She was probably buying supplies for a small restaurant or a corner bodega.

[gratuitous]

12. Are you sure you're mad at the right person, Stefani?

Last year the oil companies posted profits somewhere north of $200 billion. Do you suppose that increased transportation and shipping costs might have had something to do with the cost of items in your shopping cart? If not, why not?

[NowISeetheLight]

33. Gas Receipt

Maybe post a gas receipt and post about oil company record profits and Trump getting OPEC to cut production would be in order.

[treestar]

13. another fucking idiot

who thinks the POTUS controls everything.

And who knows what her choices were? That could have as much to do with it. That is not an ordinary shopping trip.

[niyad]

19. I wonder how many bottles of alcohol that included? One of my favourite wines

(which I cannot afford) is $50/bottle. A very good single malt is about $80.

[spanone]

14. What bullshit.

[Hugin]

15. Yeah! Thanks Joe!

For being the elected leader of a country where we are free to go into the store of our choice and blow eight hundred bucks on stuff we want!

[sinkingfeeling]

16. Shouldn't she be boycotting Costco? They're union and this:

Costco named most LGBT-friendly company

https://www.prdaily.com/costco-named-most-lgbt-friendly-company/

[Deuxcents]

23. Hmmm..my big box store memberships is up in August..

Think I’ll drive a couple of miles down the road and shop at Costco.

[CousinIT]

17. Dingbat can't budget, spends too much; blames Biden.

Got it.

Pffft.

[mzmolly]

18. As many have pointed out, she did not share what she purchased. Further,

the average price per item is less than $14.00. For bulk items, I don't see the problem here.

[SWBTATTReg]

20. Hypocrite. You criticize Pres. Biden, blame him for your 'high?' costs, but you don't provide

any evidence, nor list any of the 58 items you got. That's like me getting 10 prescriptions OTC that I needed, they cost me around $450, and blame the republicans for high prescription costs w/o listing the drugs involved. When in reality, the prescription plans that our medical providers give us are the guide posts of how our prescriptions and their prices are passed along to us.

And razor blades, trash bags, plastic bags are pretty pricey too. And if you just had only one cart, you had tons of meat in your cart, which we all know have been pretty pricey too, w/ COVID too. Again, blaming Pres. Biden when you really should be blaming djt for his pathetic failure to stop COVID from impacting this Country so much.

You're just an idiot and you just gave all of us another reason to never believe what you say, or for that matter, what you do either.

[Recycle_Guru]

21. I love that these GOP goons get busted for lies daily

[GreenWave]

22. Lettuce not forget about gift cards which can easily fit in one grocery cart!

https://www.costco.com/gift-cards-tickets.html

Psst. Hey Zorro,

When you cut that Z into the bad guy, do you also cross the Z?

[inthewind21]

24. Small items

like paper towels and razors? Anyone who shops at Costco knows there no such thing as "small items". I buy my razors AND paper towels there because they last me forever. Just those two things are 50 bucks or more.

[miyazaki]

25. Maybe she picked up some imported A5 Wagyu

-Costco has.

[MissB]

27. How privileged of her to have $800 to spend at Costco

For many folks, that’s more than they have to spend each month.

I have a good income but never spend more than about $200 a trip to Costco. She bought a ton of items.

[DemocraticPatriot]

43. That was my first thought....

Anyway, I suspect the cart was full of many expensive meat items...

[onetexan]

28. is this a costco employee who leaked the receipt? if so, report it to Costco.

[obamanut2012]

29. What???

Why in teh world would you think Costco posted this when the woman posted it on her own social media?

Jesus.

[onetexan]

44. Whoops my bad, i thought the receipt was actually the Bidens & leaked by a costco employee LOL

That Repug rep didn't post the itemized portion of her receipt so it's highly dubious why she's whining other than to diss POTUS.

[Hekate]

42. The OP states that she posted it to her own Twitter account

[llmart]

30. Probably the other 49 items were bottles of whine.

Yes, the misspelling is intentional.

She must think the public is as stupid as she is.

[SYFROYH]

31. That's an average of $13.80 per item. Easy to do at Costco.

[Cha]

32. oh Noes!! lol now PJB gets the

"Thanks Obama!" treatment

Hey genius lord maga from NM.. It Doesn't Work if you don't even say what the fuck you bought

[Midnight Writer]

34. Liquor is expensive.

Don't blame Joe.

[Celerity]

37. she is a gutless coward, you can't reply to her bullshit tweets unless she follows or mentions you

[haele]

38. That's an average of around $14 per item.

Even in a normal grocery store, buying just 30 items (with a lot of them being $1 or $2 items) I'm looking at around $300 or a bit over.
If I'm doing a every three month pantry stocking run at the Commissary, I'm buying multi-pack items typically going between $7 to $12 apiece. Commissary prices are now pretty much equivalent to 2019 prices. So my last Commissary run, with about 45 items, about 14 being non-food/drink items, was around $523. It included extra cleaning and hygiene supplies and a birthday party spread including Deli food (which is also pretty expensive).
At Costco, you're buying bulk and multi-packs. I've seen $600 + bills for around 30 items just buying pet food, people food, and standard cleaning, paper, and personal hygiene items.
And that was around five years ago.

Haele

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

39. What is this stupid traitor whining about?

$800 for 58 items, food or not, is a bargain at Costco. She essentially spent less than $14 per item.

A breakdown of prices at my local Costco, with the delivery fee tacked on, but a good idea of how much things cost there:

Kirkland artichokes (2-33 oz) - $13.44
El Monterey chicken taquitos, 30ct/51 oz - 15.78
Kirkland maple syrup, 1L - 14.03
Rao's marinara sauce (2-28 oz) - 14.03
Kirkland peanut butter (2-26 oz) - 12.86
Kellog's Eggo waffles 6-12ct - 14.03

Go compare any of those prices with the smaller package sizes available at any standard grocer's. Per ounce or count, it's either less than what a grocer charges, or close to the same.

way back in the late 90s, I spent around $1200 on my very first basket at Costco. Why? Because I bought a whole bunch of stuff that I normally would buy much smaller quantities of at other stores. Now granted, I bought things like shampoo, soap, laundry detergent, various OTC meds, and even some necessary office supplies, since my husband was then telecommuting. I had the money at the time, so it wasn't a total shock. But I was surprised that I'd run the tab *that* high.

The point is that your basket can add up really--really--fast at Costco if you're not paying attention to what you're getting. The more items you get, the faster the sub-total escalates. It's not a regular grocery store, so it's ridiculous to expect that many items to cost the same in both places.