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Comment Costco Taiwan ★ this site's world No. 1 in 2020~23, 2017~19, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2010~12 ★ |
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Comment Costco Taiwan ★ this site's world No. 1 in 2020~23, 2017~19, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2010~12 ★ |
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Chinese version
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RT-Mart
hypermarket
( a
French-Taiwan chain
hypermarket
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Yahoo Taiwan, 2023-4-29: Costco's Kirkland Three Berry Blend was Hepatitis A virus detected. This berry product imported from Chile has been sold out 17 thousands kg to Taiwanese consumers already. tw.news.yahoo.com/好市多-這水果-染a肝病毒-嚴重恐致死-已賣1-011743182.html
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pic. : No.1 "comment Taiwan Costco" on Microsoft Bing, 2021-9-22, Nov. 3, 2020, No.3 on US Google at 2021-9-22
pic. : No.1 "comment Taiwan Costco" on Yahoo Taiwan, 2021-9-22, Nov. 3, 2020; No.2 at 2021-6-8, top page on Google, Nov. 3, 2020
pic. : No.1 "comment Taiwan Costco" (Chinese version) on Google, 2021-6-8, 12-22-2020, Dec. 7, 2020, 8-16-2019
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★ , 2021-9-22, Costco's "green asparagus" imported from Peru were detected heavy metal cadmium three times higher than the legal standard, therefore those asparagus in total 1920 kg were destroyed.
★ TTV News, 2021-6-8, 16:35: imported Avocado were found again Cadmium exceeding legal standard.
★ Yahoo News, 2021-4-27: Imported apples by Costco (好市多) were repeatedly found pesticide residue exceeding legal standard. Avocado imported from the US were found Cadmium 6.2 times over standard (tw.news.yahoo.com/好市多又上榜！美國進口酪梨重金屬超標-6-倍-1980-公斤遭退運-032759110.html)
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★ Costco is suspected of the crimes of coercion, offenses against Abandonment, Offenses of Malicious Accusation, and perhaps, Offense of Homicide / Apple Daily, China Times, etc, 4-16-2019
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All major news reported at 4-16-2019 that Costco
Taiwan has been hit with some lawsuits including
the crimes
of coercion, offenses against Abandonment, Offenses of
Malicious Accusation, and perhaps, Offense of Homicide,
which were brought by the victim.
pic.1: A customer was push down to the ground by Costco staffs' violence. Costco mistreated him as a thief, and stopped him from leaving.
pic. 2: ERA TV news (年代新聞) : If I were him, I will bring a law-suit against Costco, and will fight to the end ! ERA TV newscaster: the strong should not bully those who are weak !
pic. 3: Costco wants to search a customer, eventually, police came and found nothing in his belongings
videos of newspapers and TV news : https://www.chinatimes.com/realtimenews/20190416002800-260405?chdtv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anPmWUSja8s
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To deal with CovID-19 ● Next TV news (壹新聞), Dec. 13, 2020: Costco provides free sample for customers to try, part of customers did not properly wear mask after eating sample.
● TVBS , 8-7-2020: found no Thermal imaging temperature equipment at Costco entrance, some advices : transparent plastic partitions should be installed to separate customers in eating area. tw.news.yahoo.com/作法不-家樂福停部分試吃-好市多撤熱像儀-124054497.html |
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pic.: Hyper-markets' safety measure comparison: Carrefour
cancels part of free samples，
Fe-amart (愛買)、PXmart
(全聯) still offer free samples to eat /
TVBS,
8-7-2020 ps:
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Dec. 13, 2020: In RT Mart (中崙 branch)，Thermal
imaging temperature
equipment at entrance,
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pic.: The sites-group was
ranked No.1
pic.: The sites-group was
ranked No.1
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pic.: The sites-group was
ranked No.1
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★ Costco made mistakes 11 times already in upper year of 2018 / brief from Apple Daily(蘋果日報), United Daily(聯合報), ettoday(東森), etc, 08-22-2018
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pic.: The avocados imported from USA by Costco in 2018 contained Cadmium (WHO: Group 1A carcinogens) 1 time the legal standard ( Avocados imported from New Zealand by Costco in 2012 containing pesticide residue exceeded the legal standard )
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pic.:
Frozen shrimps imported from Thailand by Costco
contained
carcinogens Nitrofuran;
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avocados imported from USA by Costco in Aug., 2018 contained Cadmium
(WHO: Group 1A carcinogens)
1 time
the legal standard
( Avocados imported from New
Zealand by Costco in 2012 containing
pesticide residue
exceeded the legal standard
), Frozen
shrimps imported from Thailand by Costco contained
carcinogens Nitrofuran (「硝基呋喃」代謝物)
。 Costco was mess
up 11 times in upper year, mainly, pesticide
residue
content in
fruits (e.g., blueberry, strawberry, raspberry )
is above
the legal standard.
https://tw.appledaily.com/headline/daily/20180822/38105026/
https://udn.com/news/story/7266/3334455
https://health.ettoday.net/news/1240196
● Consumers' Foundation, Chinese Taipei (中華民國消費者文教基金會)
Chang Gung Mem. Hospital Toxicology expert professor Yen Tzung-Hai M.D. (顏宗海, Doctor, Univ. of London ): Cadmium is Group 1A carcinogens, increases the risk of getting lung cancer and Prostate cancer，long-term exposure increases Nephrotoxicity and risk of kidney disease。
Another expert M.D.
(台北榮總毒物科醫師吳明玲) pointed out, Cadmium almost almost can't be
removed out of human body, long-term exposure increases risk of
kidney or bone disease (造成腎臟、骨頭病變，關節疼痛) etc
https://www.consumers.org.tw/contents/events_ct?id=1245&page=1
★ 聯合報, 1-18-2019 Arsenic in Costco fish oil above legal standard !
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pic. middle: Tai-chung
City government found is against Taiwan's latest legal standard
However,
Taiwanese government thinks
Tai-chung City
government opposed that,
https://udn.com/news/story/7266/3601671 |
https://udn.com/news/story/7266/3601671
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 https://www.ettoday.net/news/20180614/1190568.htm pic. right: Plasticizer in Costco National Vita DHA 5 times the legal standard！ |
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★ Costco's Earthbound farm frozen organic 3 berries contain something extra ?? May 2019
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pic. above:
Costco's
Earthbound farm frozen organic 3 berries
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★ RT mart vs Costco, in price of avocado, April, May 2019
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pic. above: RT mart avocado, NT 59 for each
ps.: Costco avocado, one bag
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★ 東森財經(EBC), ettoday東森 (Eastern Media International Corp.), 11-6-2018
Plasticizer in Costco's National Vita DHA (a very popular healthy product aiming at the elderly, kids and pregnant women) 5 times the legal standard！
Netcizens blamed Costco for less and less direct imported products， "Costco never do some inspections on their goods?"
https://fnc.ebc.net.tw/FncNews/1/41144
★ Apple Daily (蘋果日報), China Times (中國時報), etc, 5-26-2016
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pic. right: pesticide residue (Glyphosate, Group 2A carcinogens；「嘉磷塞」 N- glycine) was found in Costco's very popular products QUAKER oats，
The Quaker in RT Mart also got same problem
https://www.chinatimes.com/tube/20160526006696-261402?chdtv https://tw.appledaily.com/headline/daily/20160527/37237917 |
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★ SETN TV News , 3-2-2019
A
transparent plastic sheet was found inside of a crispy butter
cake, a popular product of Costco.
Many customers lashed out
Costco for their "blindness", lousy quality control,
some Netizens blamed Costco in that "We had enough Plasticizer
from Costco cake !", "Costco
won't do this in the US !"
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pic. 2: Costco Chestnuts https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/world/breakingnews/2434386
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 pic. 3: Costco Cheese with fungus, mold, mould ; cheese pic from Hsu Linda, 4-9-2018, in Costco Tai-Chung |
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★ The Liberty Times, 1-28-2019
★ ettoday (東森) 11-6-2018
https://www.ettoday.net/news/20181106/1298303.htm
Costcochestnuts became mildewed in about 3 days. Costco agrees that the "rejected & returned merchandise ratio" is very high. Some Netizen customers suggest putting them in cold storage or refrigeration as soon as possible.
★ Next Magazine (壹周刊) 9-19-2018
https://www.nextmag.com.tw/realtimenews/news/447030
Costco's strawberry layer cake (草莓千層蛋糕) has been a high CP value
product, but a cake bought in 9/13/2018 was found moldy only a
few days after eating half of it. The customer lashed out
Costco for "going overboard" or "going too far"(會不會太誇張).
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https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/life/breakingnews/1902311 https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/life/breakingnews/1903228
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★ SETN TV News , (三立新聞網) , 7-1-2018
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《Costco好市多 商品經驗老實說》: The pork a customer bought from Costco has mold already...
Some laughs on the internet are "moldy flavour pork (「霉粉口味」)", "Costco should rename as AlertCo" (「改名叫雷市多好了…」)... |
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★ ettoday 4-11-2018
https://www.ettoday.net/news/20180411/1147879.htm
All 3 packs of cheese, a high Cost-Performance rate product, were found mold (mould) or mycete, mucedine on it.
★ CTI TV news (中天新聞), 2-8-2018
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pic.: The brand-new washing machine from Costco was suspected of a used product, because of moldy and wet net bags, the customer complained that it's obviously a second handed stuff. |
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http://gotv.ctitv.com.tw/2018/02/839609.htm
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★ Costco vs RT Mart, Mango price , May 5~11, 2019
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pic.:
Costco mangos (愛文芒果)
in the box at left side, 8 pieces for NT379 (NT47.4
each),
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★ The Liberty Times, 11-30-'16
https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/life/breakingnews/1902311
Costco's purse seems a second-hand product, with
yucky mold, musty smells,
and 2 used tickets inside. Some other said the razor
from Costco was found some stubbles.
★ The NEXT TV news, 8-6-'12
A customer found lots of white powders on his Truffle chocolate
(松露巧克力) from Costco, when he took the merchandise back to Costco, the manager ate it at front of the customer and said that you can
wipe out the white powders and eat it without any problem, this
trigger his anger and would bring a complaint case against
Costco rather than return it...
★ Costco / worst example for businesses
● Apple Daily News (蘋果日報) 1-22-2016: The Green bean in Costco was found by Green Peace (world famous organization) that pesticide residue of Hexaconazole exceeded and was up to 7 times the legal standard, pesticide residue of Dimethomorph 68 times the legal standard, furthermore, Costco doesn't have any pesticide adm. strategy & policy, and is evaluated the worst demo. or negative example for enterprises ... (四季豆農藥菲克利超標7倍，達滅芬超標68倍，且無農藥管理政策，被認為是最糟企業負面示範...) According to study, excessive Dimethomorph hurts liver, excessive Hexaconazole may cause liver cancer.
● Liberty Times (自由時報) 1-22-2016: it's lousy poisonous! Costco declared their pesticide residue is legitimate for both Taiwan and US law, but Green Peace expressed Costco's agricultural produces were found twice excessive pesticide residue being against Taiwan law and regulation in last year, this time their green beans violated both Taiwan and US regulation (去年二度藥殘留超標，違反台灣法規，此次則同時違反台灣與美國規範)...
● The China Times (中國時報) 1-22-2016: The pesticide residues of Costco green beans were found up to 7 different kinds of pesticides, and Costco is not willing to provide with any specific measures for pesticide adm. issue (具體禁用農藥措施), in contrast, French Carrefour (家樂福）or 全聯 do better and are willing to protect consumers rights for food safety...
Pic: It's poisonous! The pesticide residue of Green bean in Costco was found 68 times the legal standard. / The China Times, Liberty Times, 1-22-2016
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★ Costco used black-heart containers , The Liberty Times, 12-11-2016
Those black-heart containers were made of recycled PET (Polyethylene terephthalate) bottles, which is against the law & regulations.
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★ Costco discriminates cancer patients , Apple Daily (蘋果日報) 5-15-2016
Costco forced a cancer patient losing hair for recurrence to change a new member card with a new photo because Costco doesn't accept that patient's explanation and alternative - check by her ID card, <Consumers' Foundation> (消基會財團法人中華民國消費者文教基金會) criticized Costco does not care about consumer's dignity and honor (『不顧消費者尊嚴』).
★ Costco's Quaker oats contains Glyphosate (synthetic biocide) , China Times Weekly 6-3-2016 ~ 6-9-2016
Quaker oats imported from USA contains Glyphosate (synthetic biocide) which may increase risk of getting cancer.
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★ Costco recalls CRF organic frozen foods ( 5-4-2016 ~ 4-26-2016) due to possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination.
Listeria monocytogenes can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail, elder people...
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The Liberty Times, Taiwan (June 11, 2013): moth
and ovum eggs were found in Costco Quaker oats (4.52kg package).
Mr.
Tseng said one moth flied out of one of his Quaker oats bags bought from
Costco (中和branch) when he opened it. Later he also found some
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Omega watches - Exclusive news
(June '14) If you only concern about Omega's price, Omega official stores in the US offered better prices than Costco Taiwan Neihu. Costco Neihu has Omega available now, but their prices seems not as cheap as those reported by Taiwan's local news years ago - Costco USA sells Omega with low price so as to have legal case with Omega... Below is one among several email-replies from Omega official stores in the US. (end of 2011) as your ref.: The current retail price is $2,300 for the Seamaster Professional 300M in blue dial with quartz movement and this is referred to the James Bone watch. There are two size available, either 36.25mm or 41mm...
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| AFP | ps: AFP (France), Mar. 6, 2012: For "unable to document any legitimate food safety risk and used non-scientific reasons to justify their bans", Taiwan plans to lift ban on most drug-treated US beef, but internal organs from cattle containing ractopamine and ractopamine-treated pork products will still be banned. In 2006 Taipei relaxed the rules to permit imports of boneless beef. Till nowadays US meat with ractopamine, is still banned in China and the European Union. |
| costco | Taiwanese government found Costco and RT-mart sold beef/steaks containing residue of banned chemical stuff ― Paylean, lean-meat-enhancing drugs (belong to B-agonist, i.e., Ractopamine, Clenbuterol, etc ). Taiwanese health authorities ordered Costco and RT-mart to remove all remaining beef products (that tested positive for Paylean) from shelves, but Costco ( 6 stores/branches ) had already sold out almost all of those beef/steaks . Why can those beef be imported to Taiwan ? Taiwan's government confessed they didn't check every box. How can people tell which is dangerous beef/steak? The answer is you can't tell just by their look.
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★ <Taipei Times> Taiwan, Jan 16, 2011 3 beef products were found leanness drugs ...RT-mart with a reading of 0.64 ppb, ... COSTCO ... 1.46 ppb and 2.84 ppb. (Costco is about 3 times the test-value of RT-mart) ★ <China Times> Taiwan, Jan 16, 2011 3 out of 11 randomly selected sampling in regular check were found lean-meat-enhancing drugs, Such a high ratio (nearly 30%) scares Taiwanese ― "where's eating safety in Taiwan?" ...... Taiwanese Department of Health didn't order to remove remaining beef products with banned drugs as soon as they informed the public of the issue, and DOH has no idea about the source even till next day noon ... ★ <Liberty Times> Taiwan, Jan 16, 2011 ◎ Headline of Life News : Banned drugs in beef probably had already been eaten by consumers/customers. ◎ Taiwan's Department of Health declared again and again .... but if DOH had not made such simple chemical tests, none to mention to make comparatively complicated tests (e.g., 普立昂變性蛋白) .... ★ <United Daily News> Taiwan, Jan 16, 2011 ◎ Europe ( same as Taiwan ) bans beef products containing lean-meat-enhancing drugs. ◎ Headline of Focus edition : Costco and RT Mart removed all banned drugs beef from shelves. ★ <TVBS> Taiwan (headquarter in Hong Kong) , Jan 15, 2011 9:00 ~ The US sold beef products without banned drugs to Europe, but not to Taiwan. ★ <the China Post> Taiwan, Jan 16, 2011 Tests confirmed banned drugs in US beef, AIT urges Taiwan to allow ractopamine in meat legally. ★ <Apple Daily News> Taiwan, Jan 16, 2011 Headline of Prime news : US beef products in Costco, RT-mart contain Paylean. ★ <the China Times> Taiwan, Jan 21, 2011 Taiwan's law was ignored again and again .... it's too much ! ★ <ETTV> (channel 57, 9:00 ~ ) Taiwan, Jan 20, 2011 160+ countries banned Paylean, US allows minor Paylean, but American only eat meat, Taiwanese eat every part of them (liver, heart, etc organs...), the rest part contains banned drugs more than 20 times than meat itself... (ps: That's the difference !) (banned drugs in beef may result in Palpitation etc, and even serious
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Pic. Ranking No.1 on google by "Comment Taiwan Costco" in Chinese, test at 10-7-2015 
Pic. "comment Costco Taiwan" ranks No.1 on English Yahoo, tested at June 2, 2014 |
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However, This US Corp. in Taiwan (Nei Hu) is not very democratic and modern (seems to me) - since 1995 there's no "questions & comments" email-box provided for customers, unlike COSTCO USA "Back to basics". Costco Taiwan said (via the phone, 2010 ) that customers can drive ( long way for me) to drop a letter to their suggestion-box in NeiHu, this reminds me an old western cartoon of satire & humor : suggestion box is hanged in a high place .
Below please find some examples :
(1) VitaMix blender in Costco Taiwan is asking about USD 800, compare model 5200 blender in USA for only USD449.
http://www.vita-mix.com or https://secure.vitamix.com/acb/stores/4/Vita-Mix-5200-P748C108.aspx
Besides, Costco's Vitamix is made for Taiwanese or Asian only, not same as Vitamix 5200 in Costco USA.
(2) As for steaks imported from USA, Costco's tag price is not the lowest.
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(3) Costco's Centrum is made for Taiwanese (or Asian?) too, not those sold in USA or some international airports. (I cannot find many items for elders in Nei-hu, like <supports alertness & short-term memory>)
(4) Ralph Lauren POLO clothes and pants is more expensive than some widely-known "outlet" garment shops in Taipei, Macau (Trav. Praia Grande; Avenida de D. Joao IV), China (Shanghai Taobao City, XiangYang Market, but I heard 90+% of them are fake ones, and many other places like GuangZou, Zhuhai ), etc.
Ralph Lauren official
outlet online, Macy's (USA) clearance sale and some others
provide with good-price, more assorted products,
i.e., Macys is offering Ralph Lauren Andrew
Stretch Lorduroy for big & tall, original price USD 125 down
to USD24.99,
Shirt - Batik Striped Henley USD 98 down to USD 41.99.
May 15, 2010
i.e., Ralph Lauren POLO outlet
online offers 35 categories : Suits, Ties, belts, outwear,
coats, leather goods, accessories, hats, etc. Costco Taiwan has
comparatively a lot smaller items to sell.
http://www.amazon.com/Tissot-PRC200-Mens-Watch-T17-1-526-52/dp/B000KKO894/ref=pd_sim_dbs_watch_1
Omega is bringing a suit case against Costco for selling their products, but I don't see any Omega watches in Costco Neihu here.
(6) CostCo Taiwan doesn't have online products , but Costco USA and Canada do. see below :
| COSTCO USA Florida | http://www.costco.com/Warehouse/LocationTemplate.aspx?Warehouse=184 |
| COSTCO Canada | http://www.costco.ca/ |
(7) <Fast Company> described Costco as an enterprise thinking highly of customers (higher than Costco stock-holders), but, Costco Taiwan Neihu doesn't have any email-box for customer's suggestion and communication since 1995, in contrast, Carrefour Taiwan, RT-Mart Taiwan, and Costco USA all do have.
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(8) I only saw small number of top
brand sport-shoes (for running, basketball, etc,
May 2010 ) in aisles of merchandise stacked floor-to-ceiling.
Costco sells less than
4000 kinds of products, others ( major rivals are RT-Mart of Taiwan and China, French Carrefour )
are between 40000
and 80000 .
(9) Costco declares giving U.S.
merchandise a local twist, but NeiHu store only has some sushi,
I don't see (middle May '10) any fresh
Japanese
sashimi (raw fish slices), which is most favorite food in all 5 star hotels
(all-you-can-eat-buffet) in Taiwan.
(10) Quite many items Costco sells are large-packed, if you don't have a large refrigerator, probably better choose RT-mart or Carrefour nearby.
( reported in 2010, for precise translation pls. refer to Chinese version web-pages )
ps: (1) Omega watches available now in Costco, but price is not about half price as news reported several years ago.
(2) Now Costco has member-comment form on the net for customers to send opinions, as for privacy policy ... I don't quite understand.... 6.8.2014
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Costco imported sausage suspect to be contain Salmonella
CNA (Central News
Agency)
Published: 2010-01-26
09:18 PM Costco's exclusive, US imported DANIELE Italian-style sausage is suspected to be polluted by Salmonella, Costco informed the related authority and members to return the goods. Taiwan government stated the 283G×3PK goods looks abnormal, Costco is informing customers by telephone or email.
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COSTCO sells false NuBraAug. 16, '05 Apple Daily News, Taiwan Two Costco stores in Taiwan
were accused by NuBra (brought a law suit by Mr. Jasper Chang) for
selling low quality NuBra which is imported directly from Costco USA,
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to be continued
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PS: Liberty Times , Feb. 13, 2012: Carrefour and RT-Mart in Neihu were found by Taiwan's government that their beef imported from the US contain banned drug, Ractopamine.
