What are you seeing at the grocery?

[SeattleVet]

67. Went to Costco Business Center in Lynnwood, WA last week.

Masks required, no line at all to get in. Well-stocked with pretty much everything. Had a table by the entrance where you could get a wipe for the cart. Huge pallet of hand sanitizer in 2-liter bottles, so we picked up one to refill our smaller containers at home. Plenty of meat, with a 1-case or 3-prepackaged item limit on some things. We got plenty of fruit, 25-lb bag of brown rice (not our usual brand, but still a good one), coffee (sale price on French Roast beans!), veggies, etc. My wife likes cottage cheese, so she now has a 5-lb container to enjoy. Our freezer is restocked with enough for a long time.

The Costco Business centers are different than the usual Costco stores - there are only 16 or 17 of them scattered around the country, and they don't have the usual consumer products (electronics, jewelry, optical, etc.) but do have things that restaurants and other businesses use. This is where you could get the primal cuts of meat (the ones that you would cut the steaks off of, for example), other bulk-pack foodstuffs, utensils and cookware (need a 10-gallon stock pot? a 5-pack of aprons? ), and commercial appliances and fixtures. If you have a way to divide and freeze or vacuum pack things these can be a good money-saver. This is where you'll run into your local restaurant chefs and convenience store owners stocking up for the week.

Open to all members, and they open much earlier in the morning and are not open as late as the consumer stores. Ours opens at 7:00 AM, closes at 6, and is closed on Sunday. Worth a trip if you have one near you.