Tuna: Bumble Bee Tuna
The chances of you singing the Bumble Bee Tuna jingle as you read this are very high, I know that. This means that you already know the company that’s behind the delicious tuna at Costco. According to EVP Tim Rose, Bumble Bee’s canned albacore is the great life force behind Kirkland Signature’s tuna, so you can carry on singing that jingle.
Bacon: Hormel Foods
There are many good things that are happening with Costco’s pre-cooked bacon, and it’s more than it meets the price. Produced by Hormel Foods, the bacon at Costco is probably the tastiest out there, but it’s also produced in the most humane way possible.
As Supermarket News showed, when Costco couldn’t manage to find precooked bacon of the proper quality, it asked its current bacon supplier, Hormel, to simply make one. That’s why it’s co-branded.
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COSTCO acronym for China overseas trading company. Yeah, everybody shop there and support China.
Ummm Charlie—Check your source…COSTCO is an American multinational corporation that operates a chain of membership-only big-box warehouse club retail stores. Costco is the world’s largest retailer of beef, poultry, organic produce, and wine, with just under a third of American consumers regularly shopping at Costco warehouses. China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO). It’s based in China and it owns 1114 ships and is one of the largest logistics companies in the world. (I would expect that Costco uses Cosco as a shipper of some of its products sourced in Asia. And Costco has stores in China, having first opened a location in Shanghai in 2019 and expanding to other cities such as Suzhou, Shenzhen, and Nanjing, bringing the total number of warehouses on the mainland to seven by August 2024. The stores have been met with massive crowds and popularity since their debut, with January 2024 seeing the opening of the first Costco in Southern China in Shenzhen. So…if you wanna be a “Buy American First” guy…at least get the facts right!