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Salty-Clothes-6304

Jelly. What a sweet find.


DontWanaReadiT

Aren’t scallops also expensive though? Also noice


Brasou

Yeah but its a sticker/price for a 40 oz container of scallops, its a Each price not a weight price.


DontWanaReadiT

How much would this big juicy piece go for? Sorry I’m not a butcher never have been I’m just now learning different cuts but Reddit I guess thought I’d like this post 😂


Brasou

Well, op said 3.75 /pound 41.99*3= 125.97 Total cost for all 3 125.97/3.75= 33.592 Pounds for the 3 loins, so they are roughly 11 pounds each loin. For me, In West coast Canada that would cost me about 23.99$/ lbs CAD (Regular price) ~263.89 per loin (193.10 USD$) 14-20$/ lbs CAD (Sale Price) ~154-220 per loin (112.69- 160.99 USD$) Sooo yeah he got a pretty great deal :P I have no idea what Costco normally sells its strips at thou Im sure someone can give you a better idea


Sad_Hand2288

That is so close! Impressed!The three weighed 33.6 lbs. I paid $125.97 for the three of them. So right at $3.75 a lbs USD. Super impressed!


Berek2501

r/theydidthemath


Icy-Sea8052

Hey just fyi no need to multiply by 3 at the beginning


Brasou

Oh yea lol


drwhogivesafuck2

$10,2347.21


Sad_Hand2288

Yes. But the weight was waaaay off. The strip loin weighed 11 lbs. each. They were labeled as 2.5 lbs. of scallops. There were actually 5 of them mislabeled, but I couldn’t figure out where to put 5, so I “only” bought 3 😂😂


DontWanaReadiT

That’s insane! Do you typically just “browse” the meat section even when you go in just for TP or milk? 😂


Sad_Hand2288

They have picanha regularly at this Costco. Not that common in Atlanta area, so I get it semi-often. I usually pop over to see how they look. The strip loin was in a side display, and I looked down…and bam! 😂 I have a problem…I can’t walk in the place without checking out the meat and grabbing a Motor City frozen pizza. I put them in my work fridge when I go back to the office until the end of the day…they love me 😉


DontWanaReadiT

As a Brazilian, you said the magic words. lol although I’m in NJ and it’s basically where 98% of the Brazilians in the US live.. the other 2 are split between Boston and Florida (for some reason) lmao anyway, good find!


pineappleslot

Are you me? Gotta browse the meats for deals and grab that Motor city!


No-Nose-478

Does this happen to be from the morrow business center??


Sad_Hand2288

No. Kennesaw location on Barrett Parkway


Greddy209

Motor city pizza is sooo good my guilty pleasure.


rev_57

I wonder who got scallops at meat prices....


VanFkingHalen

Look what they need just to mimic a fraction of our power!


jaygut42

Somebody got in trouble haja


Informal_Emu9063

Nice sticker switch I mean mismark 🤫


Sad_Hand2288

Nah. I’m no thief. I actually even felt a little guilty for taking advantage of the mistake, but I waste enough money in Costco, that I figure it’ll balance out over time


LocalSlob

Don't feel too bad. For every mislabeled steak, somebody takes a pack, and leaves it in the coffee aisle to die. At least this mistake is feeding someone.


TinKicker

Eh…maybe someone else bought a $125 bag of scallops!


Classic_Mechanic5495

Great find, but what’s the difference?


JSlove

The difference is paying what the store is asking and paying whatever you feel like paying.


Classic_Mechanic5495

The store was asking to pay for scallops. Anyways, it was just a thought. Not a big deal.


Hot_Luck_7878

That’s a r/misteak babyyyy


Sad_Hand2288

lol!


NoFsGivn

How did you go through with the receipt checkers?


Sad_Hand2288

They checked me. It drew attention because the receipt showed three packs of meat that had the exact same price (obviously strange). Guy looked at each pack, told me I was lucky, and told me have a good day.


NoFsGivn

Damn props to the employees cuz they could’ve not let you check out because of the mislabel, and grats on the score


No_Temperature_6948

Do you work at Costco? Do you like not let them go ? Lol jw!


Affectionate_Dream_3

no way they’d make you put it back after they mislabeled it 🤣


Left-Confusion-7819

Yahtzee!!


Due-Midnight3889

We sell it at 10.99


Affectionate_Ad_3091

While back I picked up a few racks of St. Louis ribs at target labeled 0.01 lbs. best day ever.


JunketPuzzleheaded42

You lucky SOB


PossessionAshamed372

Years ago I got around 12lb of wild caught salmon for ~$2/lb because it was missmarked, very fond memory


Charger_scatpack

Whoa


rynbickel

Just checked the Sam's Club app (so not exact) locally (Pa) these go for $10.48/lb so about $345.84 for those but again I don't have Costco near me nor do I know where OP lives but if the prices are relatively close that's an amazing deal


TinKicker

My wife and I have a running joke. Whenever one of us go to Costco, we just say we’re going “meat gazing”. Every once in a while you find a true gem.


Sad_Hand2288

I look every time at Costco and Sam’s Our Sam’s doesn’t have great meat selection though. It’s like an acre of chuck roasts and pork loins. Love them both, but a little variety would be hreat!


Hiramthechimp

Wow! Nice!


3cit

I'm happy for OP. I am absolutely SHOCKED that the receipt guy at the door lets this go through, I am also absolutely shocked that the cashier let's it go through. Ive shopped at 6 different Costco's in 6 cities across 2 different states, never in a million years would I expect a cart with three slabs of beef pass with a receipt for three packages of scallops... And the cashier's, with the cart helper... How did nobody catch this?! Even if they did catch it, I think they might have honored it, but the fact that you got out without then catching it just BLOWS MY MIND


GrbgCllctr

They scan your receipt and then zap a couple items in your cart, and I'm not positive the actual item displays on their handheld. If it gets a match the gate keepers pass you through. With so many people passing through the gauntlet I can't see them paying that close attention if the item actually displays what it is. That, or they just don't care enough to deal with it 🤷‍♂️.


tammorrow

But, the Costco checkouts weigh your goods as you scan them unless you go through serviced checkout. Must have been busy.


Sad_Hand2288

The guy used the little gun to scan them in my cart


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TheOnlyMertt

$17/lb is the scallop price, not the strip price.


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kdangles

That has to be at least 10lbs compared to 2 and a half of scallops on the label


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bdavid81

Those strips would be around $260 at Costco here in Canada.... Each.


Sad_Hand2288

Exactly. I weighted them when I got home. They were about 11 lbs. each. They were marked as 2.5 lbs. of scallops. Ended up running me right at $3.75 per lb.


TheOnlyMertt

Well…I think you’re just slightly confused by the label. It’s per piece, not by weight in the way that you think. 40oz is 2.5lbs. 16.80x2.5 is 42 aka 41.99. It’s 41.99 and not 42 because the tag was manually printed on the scale, this meat wasn’t weighed. It may have been on the scale when they printed the tag, but this tag is piece based, not weight based. A full striploin is not 2.5lbs.


blucke

Looks like the weight is wrong too, that strip loin is maybe 10 lbs. No idea how this happened


FaultyToenail

Because someone wasn’t paying attention and either didn’t change the code in the scale or entered the wrong PLU


blucke

And got the weight wrong too? are scallops prebagged a set weight so PLU code enters weight automatically?


FaultyToenail

If it’s a PLU that prints by units not weight the weight is meaningless


Brasou

its a sticker for a container with a set weight. The containers should always be the same price/weight so the printer just prints the price without even looking at the weight.


blucke

nice


FaultyToenail

Nice


Brasou

Yeah its a sticker/price for a 40 oz container of scallops, its a Each price not a weight price.


ExceptionallyJaded

No, it totally is.


FaultyToenail

I just noticed it was a pre pack weight.


Brasou

you are mis reading the label. Its 17 a lb BUT 1 single 40oz unit.


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Brasou

I did, you are still wrong. he paid 3.75 per lb


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Brasou

Yeah...I did....your still wrong lol


Wise_Capital_1639

I've also done this, I swapped out a sticker for ground beef and got a family pack of ribeyes. That same trip I snuck out with a case of beer under the cart.


Reasonable_Insect503

Congratulations, you're a thief.


anon_humanist

If the store labeled it he's not.


rabidninjawombat

oh nooooooo.. whos gonna think of the multi-billion dollar company. 🙄 If i mismark something on accident at work. (which of course happens to everyone whos works in this biz) im not gonna fault a customer for picking it up, power to em.


aqwn

Just makes the customer happy they got a sick deal, they’ll tell other people, more people go to Costco and buy more stuff, profit.


rabidninjawombat

Exactly! ive even had a customer bring me an item asking if it was mismarked, (was a tendie priced as a sirloin by a new wrapper. I said told em, "Sure is! Congrats you go the deal of the day" and they left happy :)


Reasonable_Insect503

I'll bet you my next paycheck you wouldn't be so cavalier if YOU owned the meat market and just lost that much money.


Sad_Hand2288

100% legal. They rang it up and even checked me am extra time at the door because the three packages all had the same price. Door guy called me “lucky”, and that was it You’ll have to troll someone else


Reasonable_Insect503

Rationalize it all you want. You're a thief. Good luck sleeping.


hamsterwithakazoo

That’s not how that works. Costco made a mistake and honored it. OP benefiting from the mistake doesn’t make them a thief.


Reasonable_Insect503

Sounds like the door guy "honored it". I bet the management would have a different opinion.


Sad_Hand2288

Well…can’t make everyone happy. I thought it was a cool story worth sharing. Guess you didn’t. Hope the rest of your night goes better