Cutrate Costco Caskets; Concern, Consumers?

from JoeUser Forums
OK, folks...again with the disclaimer I'm NOT making this up. If anyone is, blame Reuters.

Throw out that extra large case of Squid chow, folks. Now, the folks at Costco are bringing you value to continue on BEYOND this life.

Issaquah, Washington based Costco, who made its name in the warehouse pricing market, announced on Tuesday that two Chicago area stores will begin marketing 6 different models of steel caskets made by Michigan based Universal Casket Company. No word on how long they intend to continue this promotion.


Gives a new meaning to "dying to get a bargain".

signing off,

Gideon MacLeish
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
Calamitous catasphrophe, could charismatic cost control, condition customers completely?
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
lol...ya out-alliterated me again
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
Gives a new meaning to "dying to get a bargain".


Lol that cracked me up! Very funny!

Hmm interesting. If I was dying and wanted a casket (I don't, I would want to be burnt to ashes) I would be dying to get a deal on caskets.
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
(I don't, I would want to be burnt to ashes)


yeah, steel caskets are notoriously hard to burn in crematories...lol
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
My favorite was a Ripley's story about a monk who had himself dipped in wax to preserve the body when he died, then spent the next 200 years as a candleholder in the cathedral....If I gotta go, why not be useful?
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
There once was a monk who aspired
For his corpse to hold a candle's fire,
I'll give you the facts,
They dipped him in wax
When the church burned down, he was a fryer (friar).

I'm learning, obi wan nobody
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
A priest dipped in wax with a wick,
Made a candle remarkably thick,
'Til one hot summers day,
When he melted away,
And the smell made the bishop quite sick

Your powers are weak old man.....kudos on the pun though.
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
and yes, i know what i could have rhymed it with.....
Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
Your powers are weak old man.....kudos on the pun though.


I am but a padawan...lol
Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top
Gideon: Great post. You find some interesting stuff, man.

SPC Nobody Special:
My favorite was a Ripley's story about a monk who had himself dipped in wax to preserve the body when he died, then spent the next 200 years as a candleholder in the cathedral....If I gotta go, why not be useful?

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Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top
Gideon: Great post. You find some interesting stuff, man.


Thanks, Texas...I try to educate and inform (and find that, indeed, truth is FAR stranger than fiction sometimes).
Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top
One of the guys I worked with showed me this story in the paper yesterday.

I got images of people lugging a month's supply of Gatorade around in a casket on wheels instead of a shopping cart, conveniently getting all their stuff home and planning for the future...

I would like to be buried at sea, though I don't know how viable that is these days, especially for someone outside the Navy or some such.
Reply #13 from JoeUser Forums Top
shitzu,

I'm sure it could be accomplished somehow. You might have to have your embalming be somehow "environmentally sensitive", though.