Costco to start selling caskets

[ringmastery]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040816/ap_on_bi_ge/costco_caskets

CHICAGO - Whether you're in the market for a good night's sleep or the eternal kind, there's now a discount store somewhere that has you covered.

On Monday, Costco Wholesale Corp., better known for bulk chicken and cases of soda, started test marketing caskets along side mattresses at a North Side Chicago store and one in suburban Oak Brook.


"This is certainly something that can be an easy value," said Gina Bianche, a buyer in Costco's corporate office in Issaquah, Wash. "I don't want to say cheap value, but it just needs to be done."


Each of the six models from the Universal Casket Co., in colors including lilac and Neapolitan blue, is priced at $799.99, made of 18-gauge steel, considered medium weight for caskets, and can be delivered within 48 hours.

[Placebo]

1. Fuck Caskets, CREMATION BABY!

burn baby burn, i tell ya what.

i don't want to be sitting in the ground rotting away and being eaten by bugs for 90 years.

[Dookus]

2. the only problem is

ya gotta buy six of 'em at a time.

[Bat Boy]

6. Are they all shrink wrapped together?

'Cause I'm gonna need to rent a truck...

[Andy_Stephenson]

3. How tasteless is that?

Perhaps soon they will be selling a package deal...I can see the ad campaign...From diapers to death. Costco fills all your needs.

:eyes:

Was this Gina's idea? If so...she should be demoted.

"This is certainly something that can be an easy value,"
"I don't want to say cheap value"

:wtf: We truly have crossed into the twilight zone.

[Dookus]

4. actually

it's not tasteless at all.

The funeral industry is one of the biggest ripoffs ever. I'm glad to see somebody undercutting them.

[Placebo]

5. This is not the time for articles that say COSTCO = KERRY...

i tell ya what.