# I've Been Bamboozled By Costco!
**URL:** https://community.clark.com/t/ive-been-bamboozled-by-costco/7004
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [February 1, 2025, 1:38am UTC](https://community.clark.com/t/ive-been-bamboozled-by-costco/7004 "2025-02-01T01:38:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 17
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### Author:  [@Lavarock](https://community.clark.com/u/Lavarock)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2025, 1:38am UTC](https://community.clark.com/t/ive-been-bamboozled-by-costco/7004/1 "2025-02-01T01:38:26Z")
I was shopping today and yes, found eggs! But that is not the issue.
I was contemplating the ice cream aisle and saw things like the cones and bulk ice cream when to my surprise, there next to the ice cream bars, Oreo has an ice cream sandwich. I have enjoyed the Snickers ice cream bars and thought I would get this. It look like a regular Oreo but has an ice cream filling. I buy it. When I get to the car I open the package before putting it in the ice chest with other cold items. IT IS A REGULAR OREO COOKIE THAT COSTCO PUTS IN THE FREEZER! Do they honestly think the ‘Crisco-type’ sugar filled filling is going to melt on the shelf? What possible reason would these regular cookies be in the freezer?
I should return them and tell Costco that the reason is that they just won’t freeze no matter how low I set the temperature.
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### Author:  [@Bogarts\_Falcon](https://community.clark.com/u/Bogarts_Falcon)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2025, 12:33pm UTC](https://community.clark.com/t/ive-been-bamboozled-by-costco/7004/2 "2025-02-01T12:33:12Z")
Oreo does make a frozen dessert. The box it comes in says Oreo Sandwich. They don’t say ice cream and on their website they say it’s filled with a “frozen dairy dessert”.
Is it possible that is what you bought?
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### Author:  [@ochotona](https://community.clark.com/u/ochotona)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2025, 2:23pm UTC](https://community.clark.com/t/ive-been-bamboozled-by-costco/7004/3 "2025-02-01T14:23:21Z")
> [@Lavarock](#):
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> IT IS A REGULAR OREO COOKIE THAT COSTCO PUTS IN THE FREEZER!
I wonder if the staff put the wrong item in the freezer? I’d take it back, I take back anything I don’t like.
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### Author:  [@charlieg](https://community.clark.com/u/charlieg)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2025, 3:08am UTC](https://community.clark.com/t/ive-been-bamboozled-by-costco/7004/4 "2025-02-02T03:08:55Z")
Seriously, if this is your trigger it’s going to get worse. 🙂
I love Costco, I just cannot afford them anymore. If I’m not buying in bulk then I have to ask myself about quality. The beef is great. They usually have A2 Milk and Eggs. But I cannot afford their beef anymore. So, we’re back to the staples.
Walmart is kicking Costco and Amazon butt in prices. i just ordered soy sauce and corn starch for 25 cents on the dollar compared to both. It’s very hit/miss.
HAve some wine.
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### Author:  [@Lavarock](https://community.clark.com/u/Lavarock)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2025, 1:19pm UTC](https://community.clark.com/t/ive-been-bamboozled-by-costco/7004/6 "2025-02-03T13:19:44Z")
If you have never tried them, frozen Snickers ice cream bars are the best (and perhaps only) candy bar made into an ice cream treat.
My Sisters stopped by yesterday and I offloaded packages of Oreo cookies. Yet I still have enough for a few months.
My question now is, if there IS an Oreo ice cream but workers put regular Oreos in the freezer by mistake, did they leave the frozen ones on the shelf? 🙂
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### Author:  [@H200h](https://community.clark.com/u/H200h)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2025, 4:02pm UTC](https://community.clark.com/t/ive-been-bamboozled-by-costco/7004/7 "2025-02-03T16:02:56Z")
> [@Lavarock](#):
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> My Sisters stopped by yesterday and I offloaded packages of Oreo cookies. Yet I still have enough for a few months.
Why don’t you just return them to Costco?
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### Author:  [@Lavarock](https://community.clark.com/u/Lavarock)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2025, 7:18pm UTC](https://community.clark.com/t/ive-been-bamboozled-by-costco/7004/8 "2025-02-03T19:18:32Z")
I don’t hate Oreos, but I was hoping for a frozen dessert.
I have only returned 1 thing at Costco in decades and that was about 15 pineapples. They had been stored refrgerated and the insides has partially rotted. Actually I could return the actual pineapples as we had placed them in guest rooms and the guests had thrown them all out. Costco refunded half the cost since we had no product to return and I guess they figured we might have been the ones to damage the things because this was a couple days after purchase. By the way. 15 pineapples were almost free as Costco got them from Maui at the time and sold them for about $2 each. So in reality, we ‘could’ have eaten the cost, just not the fruit. 🙂
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### Author:  [@H200h](https://community.clark.com/u/H200h)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2025, 9:06pm UTC](https://community.clark.com/t/ive-been-bamboozled-by-costco/7004/9 "2025-02-03T21:06:25Z")
> [@Lavarock](#):
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> I have only returned 1 thing at Costco in decades
I can’t imagine a Costco warehouse manager refusing a refund in your case of the Oreo product you described. You don’t even have to make a special trip, just take them in next time you go to Costco.
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### Author:  [@Lavarock](https://community.clark.com/u/Lavarock)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2025, 9:10pm UTC](https://community.clark.com/t/ive-been-bamboozled-by-costco/7004/10 "2025-02-03T21:10:30Z")
I think that you are taking this thread a bit too sirously. It is not a problem that I got a product which I thought was something else. I really have no reason to return it, just watch closer in the future.
What I would take back would be Twix bars if they contained two left halves instead of a left and right half.
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### Author:  [@H200h](https://community.clark.com/u/H200h)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2025, 9:37pm UTC](https://community.clark.com/t/ive-been-bamboozled-by-costco/7004/11 "2025-02-03T21:37:48Z")
> [@Lavarock](#):
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> I think that you are taking this thread a bit too sirously.
I’m biased, my wife even takes over-ripe avocados back.
You can send me all the Twix bars with two left halves, I’m pretty tolerant of sub-standard candy. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Lavarock](https://community.clark.com/u/Lavarock)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2025, 10:50pm UTC](https://community.clark.com/t/ive-been-bamboozled-by-costco/7004/12 "2025-02-03T22:50:07Z")
I have avocado trees. In fact, there are over 100 varieties here. I have some trees on my farm but inherited them so I don’t know what variety they are. One variety is very creamy I hear. I did plant some Haas though.
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### Author:  [@Lavarock](https://community.clark.com/u/Lavarock)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2025, 1:43am UTC](https://community.clark.com/t/ive-been-bamboozled-by-costco/7004/13 "2025-02-04T01:43:06Z")
So, I went to the Post Office today and what was sitting in boxes outside for anyone to take… one avocado left but many apple (or ice cream) bananas.
Hawaii has more than 100 varieties of bananas, including dessert bananas, cooking bananas, and wild species. The cavendish bananas commonly found on the mainland are pretty starchy.
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### Author:  [@H200h](https://community.clark.com/u/H200h)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://community.clark.com/t/ive-been-bamboozled-by-costco/7004/14 "2025-02-04T16:24:54Z")
> [@Lavarock](#):
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> So, I went to the Post Office today and what was sitting in boxes outside for anyone to take
The bananas and the avocado look just like the varieties in the Cook Islands. Down there they call the bananas “lady fingers” and we love those, not so much the large round avocados though, they have sort of a dry texture and not much flavor.
In Florida we called avocados “alligator pears” but as a kid I didn’t care for them. I spent lots of time in the mango trees peeling mangoes with my teeth and staining my clothes while eating them.
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### Author:  [@Krobbiedd](https://community.clark.com/u/Krobbiedd)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2025, 1:32pm UTC](https://community.clark.com/t/ive-been-bamboozled-by-costco/7004/15 "2025-02-08T13:32:10Z")
FYI when you do have a problem with a perishable item apearantly it’s better for them if you bring the item back. I had sour milk and brought back the empty carton. Agent said if I brought back the milk the can turn it in to the vendor and get credit versus eating the cost themselves.
This was my experience anyway in Santa Cruz a couple of years ago anyway.
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### Author:  [@Lavarock](https://community.clark.com/u/Lavarock)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2025, 6:50am UTC](https://community.clark.com/t/ive-been-bamboozled-by-costco/7004/16 "2025-02-09T06:50:12Z")
Went to Costco today (probably the worst time and day to do that due to lines) however I did see the same boxes of Oreo Cookies in the cookie aisles. I went to the freezer area and a different box was there. Those said Desert Cookie but nothing obvious on the box (I didn’t take it out)… So I am pretty sure that someone loaded the wrong product in the freezer and I didn’t read the package.
Note that Dessert Cookie and not saying Ice Cream Filling generally means the filling may not qualify as ice cream which has to have a certain fat content, etc. That is why some frozen products may say “ice milk”, “frozen dairy dessert” because they are not ice cream.
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### Author:  [@GarOh](https://community.clark.com/u/GarOh)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2025, 1:18pm UTC](https://community.clark.com/t/ive-been-bamboozled-by-costco/7004/17 "2025-03-16T13:18:17Z")
Get the Costco VISA Card… if you spend $150 per trip, your cash back will easily cover your annual membership. ( plus gas purchases…you will have some rewards $ left over )
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### Author:  [@H200h](https://community.clark.com/u/H200h)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2025, 4:06pm UTC](https://community.clark.com/t/ive-been-bamboozled-by-costco/7004/18 "2025-03-16T16:06:59Z")
> [@Lavarock](#):
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> So I am pretty sure that someone loaded the wrong product in the freezer and I didn’t read the package.
No wonder! It would be easy to get confused.
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