Costco Foods That Taste Different Now 

Have you noticed the taste for these foods changing, or does it still taste the same to you?

it's not just Costo. Food everywhere has changed for the worse in the last 3-4 years.

100% agree about the artisan/ciabatta bread and pizza. I used to buy this bread and pizza weekly. As for the olive oil, the price went up by 100%. I remember paying $9.95 then $12.95 and now it has gone up to $24.95. And I wish they would bring back the old croissant. I'd rather pay more for a quality product and pay less for unappetizing, inferior quality.

I don't know if its me or the manufactures but so many foods just do not taste right anymore. I am doing a lot of baking and cooking at home now. Its not just the cost but the taste seems to be off. I thought it was just me and my taste buds

Nothing goes back to being good once changed, things only get worse.

The Kirkland location is selling the roasted chicken in a bag...horrible.

I'm not gonna lie, but I've never liked the seasonings and spices used on any rotisserie chickens.

Bring back the old chicken bake! And COMBO PIZZA

You are so right about the taste of the chicken. Something’s changed - and I’m afraid it’s the chicken itself.😊

Kirkland EVOO has an ingredient label that makes me not purchase it. The source of the processed oil is more than six countries. That raises my concerns about consistency. I prefer a single source, ideally California or Italy. When the label says “from Italian grown olives” or “traceable chain of Italian origin,” it means that the olives were grown in Italy then shipped out to other countries for processing and refining. That can make a huge impact on quality. I’ll buy my EVOO at the market in smaller quantities that are labeled with a production date. Oxidized olive oil is unhealthy and can cause inflammation.

I like the jars the cashews and chocolate covered raisins come in. I repurpose the containers to hold my snacks and use the top with the lids on them to dispense kitty treats for my family of three cats. Last time in the store I noticed that the container holding roterise chicken was changed to a bag. I stopped buying their chicken.

Food at restaurants and at grocery stores have become inferior in quality but high in cost.

The Kirkland brand starts out in a category of interest by partnering with national brands to package their products disguised under the Kirkland labels. For example, Starbucks roasts some coffees sold as Kirkland. After a few years, Costco wants a higher margin and they don’t want to pay for the reputable national brand anymore. So Costco takes over production and starts making the products themselves. That’s when consumers notice the drop in quality, changes in texture and odd tastes. Costco is skilled at buying high quality items and getting great prices out of national brands. However, Costco is simply not great at producing their own products in all categories. They seem to trade savings over quality when they take over from the national brands. It will be their undoing.

Probably due to the high inflation, they're making cuts to try to keep price increases down. One Man's Opinion: Keep the quality, even if the price goes up. What I buy, I want it to be good.

This post has put to rest the nagging doubt of sanity in the legions of us who have been thinking we were “ only imagining things’….I bought at least 4 rotisserie chickens that tasted awful before I decided even if it was “ only my imagination” I was never buying another one….they are truly terrible . so disappointing they used to be so yum

Costco won’t change anything back. They are out to make more profit. Period.

I agree with everything covered in this video. I purchased on bag of the mixed nuts and it seems most of the nuts were almonds and peanuts. Got stale at about the half bag level. Bread, could never finish it..that bad. Don't forget the prices. Pies and cakes start at $18. The $5.99 pumpkin pie is the winner of all of them.

Start looking at the ingredients list, everything has geo-bio-engineered products. It went mainstream last Christmas w/Cheerios. It is added to everything, usually listed as the last thing on the ingredient list.

Awesome share!

More reasons to always cook from scratch.

This is not happening only in costco . The monkfruit sugar in the supermarket particularly the brown sugar is not the same anymore . It looks pale now very anemic . Every company are trying to save money due to high inflation . 😔

I don’t go to Costco anymore, but I noticed the change in food the texture flavors we cook mostly we eat well. My boyfriend makes bread sometimes and different things but we don’t eat tons of bread, but I cook a lot at least like for five nights a week and we have leftovers a couple nights. Yeah, food is, not so good from the store. Why does it Taste different? Hmm

Publix's cakes and bakery breads taste different after the pandemic.

There is something up with those Costco chicken. First the are saltier and bigger than the rotisserie chickens I buy at the grocery store and Walmart. Also, when I’m cutting meat off of the Costco chicken, I give my dog a piece of the chicken. My dog gets sick almost every time I give him the Costco chicken. If you ask me, it’s whatever brine they are using. I will just stick to the grocery stores smaller less salty chickens.

I have noticed that some of the baked goods are not nearly as good as they were a year ago. The croissants are acceptable, but the cookies for the most part are barely acceptable. The piecrust, and indeed the pie fillings are not the same. They are definitely not putting butter in their piecrust anymore, and the filling seems exceptionally bland Now it is to the point that I am reluctant to buy their pies at all. In 😮addition at the Costco close to my house, I was having a problem with the produce not being fresh and beginning to spoil within 2 to 3 days within my refrigerator. I paid $1500 for the refrigerator from Costco. So they could not claim it was my refrigeration, after I inquired about complaining to headquarters, I gave them another try and their produce is lasting longer now.

Costco up the prices too while changing the quality of there foods. Take the salad in the snack shop. It's not as full no tomatoes, about a third less chicken and no cheese. Also no croutons. To make you not smile it was $3.99 before removal returning to a new price of $6.99.

Years ago, I heard that Costco had olive oil that was pretty good overall. I don’t go there anymore so I don’t really know but nothing would surprise me. Anymore we can’t just keep going and shopping for the things that we always bought because things are changing and we notice the taste the texture. We don’t buy a lot of baked goods but occasional treat something small like a one person type thing for and we get two of them because we just don’t eat a lot of bakery items, but I’ve noticed a difference.

Costco's rotisserie chicken has gone from top tier to garbage. I won't touch it. IMO it's probably bad for you at this point.

They may be trying to cut cost in attempt to keep the prices the same but quality loss is never an option for me. For some things, I would be willing to pay a little more if the quality stays the same. One thing at Costco that really jumped up in price is their 2lb package of smoked pulled pork, which taste phenomenal but it was $10.99 a year ago, then it jumped to $12.99 and now it's $14.99. I used to buy it 2-3 times per month, but with the price jump I very seldom buy it now.

All food taste different.

it would be more honest if instead of downgrading their ingredients to keep the prices low they would keep same ingredients and rise the prices accordingly if the customers can’t afford it they just won’t buy but don’t substitute something good with crap just to keep appearance

Thank you for criticising Costco foods; yes, you diclosed and informed buyers the Truths. Is it the ways Costco maximizing profits at the expense of customer's pockets & tastes.

This is very sickening. Obviously Costco doesn't care that much for it's customers anymore because they are trying to pass off Inferior products and not listening to customer complaints. And the company would NEVER admit that they have changed some of their products for the worst.

My Costco is moving buildings and putting in a winco in its place

I have not tried everything on this list but, of the ones I have tried, I have not noticed any taste difference.

Last month, I was able to buy Pilgrim's Pride chickens, for 33 CENTS a pound. Yes, they ALL had that stretchy string on them. steve

Some locations have Korean Bulgogi meat in prepared meal cooler. Fry it up and get flour snack tortillas & Kim Chee makes a Yummy Korean Street Taco.

YES IS VERY SAD TO AGREE THAT QUALITY AND WEIGHT ON THE FOOD INDUSTRY WENT DOWN A LOT EVERYWHERE, AND COSTCO ONE OF THEM, BAD FOR US.

these are not foods these are some products that you can put in your mouth, chew and swallow and get some dopamine release in exchange for diabetes somewhere along the line

"...suddenly tasted like chemicals." Newsflash, EVERYTHING tastes like chemicals. PERIOD! steve

Taste first to go when companies change to inferior ingredients to save money. They hope consumers won’t notice. Consumer always notice when food they once enjoyed , is no longer any good. Many restaurants are joining fast food chains as well.

Everything in processed foods has changed. What they get away with now is insane, if you only knew.

A couple of things I've bought from Costco, I will never buy again are the Southwest chicken Taquitos or Flautas (with black bean), the Chicken & Cheese Flautas and the Gyro Slices. I just didn't like the flavor of the southwest Flautas and the Chicken and Cheese ones didn't taste like real meat. The Gyro slices had a strange flavor, unlike Greek & Lebanese restaurants. The Jack Cantina Salsa taste fresh made EVERY time. The spicy garlic wings made in the deli are phenomenal. The Padrino's tamales are good too.

I completely agree, Costco has been declining in quality for several years, and it’s not limited to food, clothing and everything else too, while they hike up the membership every year. Hot dogs, are also something has gone down in flavor. Soon they’ll be matching Walmart in quality, while their prices keep skyrocketing, oh, I almost forgot, and their chicken soup they sell at the ready to eat platters, if you bother to read the label of ingredients, you’ll realize there’s a endless list of chemicals in that soup, way, way more than ingredients, call it diabetes soup.

Stopped buying the rotisserie chicken 5 years ago, chicken has been altered to the point that it’s tasteless. “We want our customers to eat healthy food “. Buy a chicken from an individual small producer and compare. We stopped using the food court when they removed the Polish. I’ll not let some mega corporation dictate what I eat. If it doesn’t taste good, don’t buy it.

You could say the same thing about Panera. As the prices go up, the quality goes down! Pecan braids are totally gone, replaced by supermarket quality yuck!

I went to the produce section of my local supermarket today to choose a cucumber. Every single one of them was the exact same length, the exact same circumference and the exact same shade of green. How do they do that???? My husband grows a vegetable garden every summer and has never produced two cucumbers that are exactly the same. Needless to say, I decided to wait on our garden.

I've never had Costco food. I feel like I'm missing out!

I seldom eat fast food but when I do…. It tastes different now.

Put your “extra virgin” olive oil in the fridge. If they freeze, it’s not 100% olive oil.

Shrinkflation and greed. Cheaper ingredients/smaller sizes mean bigger returns for shareholders and/or CEOs.

They don’t make cherry pies anymore.🙁 I asked why and the lady told me, “they’re too much work”. Of course we know it’s all about profit! 😡

Is there a potato chip bag where it’s not mostly broken chips?

Almost all food products got down in quality, down in size(weight or volume) and up in price- all simultaneously. And the same story in most stores and any shopping places, unfortunately.

Basing a video exposé based solely on Reddit comments? Really?

Make your own then you know how it is made and what exactly is in it.

apple pie no good anymore

Blue berry bagels have a different recipe they taste worse and look different, sadly.

Just in the pat 6 months, I uSed to give both of my dogs some scraps of the Costco rotisserie chicken. The past 2 times I’ve given my dogs Costco chicken they have gotten terrible diarrhea. What has changed? I won’t buy it anymore because they’ve put something different in it.

I heard kirkland was bought by Nabisco and quality has deteriorated.

Real stuff - the best stuff cost a fortune. Stay aware folks. When stuff goes to plastic bag, a hint.

When did Costco got rid of there Chicken Parmesan?

Costco cut quality on everything go to SAM club in stead

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Chickens taste much better from Walmart,Kroger and Safeway,Albertson. COSTCO needs to improve the taste of those chickens. It is BIG but NO TASTE.

Costco has so many great products and sold so many of them - why would they change them? Trying to make more $$$$$$$$$$???? Or - just going along with the trend: lower quality of food????

I purchased the 4-pack of Costco's Pepperoni Pizza. It doesn't taste good.

I just called Sam's Club to say the same thing about their products. I stopped buying chicken breast, and the beef is also bad. The milk has a bad smell.

Cheaper... quality has gone to hell

I find rotisserie chicken salty.

Costco you know that at least 30% of shoppers will ignore, but the problem is the other 70% will destroy you, do i think youll listen no, because ceo’s never listen pump it up and destroy

The fake food is here!

And half their original size. :/

Even the pasture raised eggs are a scam half of the 2 dozen are actually small not large as the packaging says, that makes me question pasture or feed lot. AMEN.

Chicken in bags now, bags are greasy. chicken are smaller, meat dries faster bring back the container...

Makes me glad I’m not a Costco member.

We stopped buying the rotisserie chicken after finding out their chicken farms and processing plants are appalling in every way.

The taste of Costco Rotisserie chicken is nasty!

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All the products you pictured in this video were way past their expiration date. That's probably why they taste funny.

You guys are right. Just don't. Trust. It's about the Money. They don't Care. I don't Buy there anymore.

Safeway has much better roasted chicken. Won't touch Costcos

What an unserious video. Relying on random reddit posters as proof is laughable

Reddit? C’mon! You can do better than this… Unsubscribe..👎

Stop complaining! Change is always hard.

Folks if you could make it yourself do.

Ribs are just garbage

It’s all fake food