I shop at Costco. You can't beat their prices on diapers, cheese, and some other things my family uses a lot of. It's where we bought my sons matching outfits earlier today (to my great combination of dismay and glee). But there have been two sore disappointments with the Costco in Everett, Washington.

1. You never know when they'll have Triscuits (my wife's favorite cracker). Sometimes they do, most times not, and this drives us into the arms of WalMart because they have the best prices on Triscuits for normal consumer size packaging.
2. In 6 years, they haven't carried a decent brand of salami that didn't leave a bad taste in my mouth. I'm just not a fan of Italian salami and they seem bound and determined to keep expanding their selection of Italian lunch meats and Italian-branded lunch meats like turkey breast and pastrami from Columbus meats.

Why is it that they have like 8 types of Italian salami in the Everett Costco, but nothing simple and domestic? I get the worst aftertaste from Italian salami. I'd kill for them to simply carry Oscar Mayer hard salami or the same hard salami I can get in the deli case at Safeway.

I understand that products come and go, but on my last visit, in the premium lunch meat aisle there were the Kirkland lunch meats and then all the other lunch meat and salami were Italian or from Italian meats companies. Even their pastrami and turley breast were from Columbus. What gives?

I love Costco. My dad got me a membership when I went off to college 23 years ago and I've been a member ever since. But this obsessions with Italian meats in the deli section has got to stop. Give us some good old, plain old salami. No fancy imported stuff. I'd love some kosher chubs I could hang to dry in my kitchen, but failing that, just something along the lines of simple, domestic hard salami like Oscar Mayer.

Thanks Costco!

I've been up in the Pacific Northwest for a little over 9 years now, and in all that time there have been two foods I could get in Los Angeles that I just can't seem to get here: truly good pastrami and Wilno Kosher salami. I still hold out hope for good pastrami, but this morning my hopes for Wilno Kosher salami were dashed as I found out it will cease production "on or before January 30, 2009."

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