{"id":334,"date":"2007-12-15T15:20:31","date_gmt":"2007-12-15T20:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/2007\/12\/15\/ill-take-a-12-pack-of-those\/"},"modified":"2007-12-15T15:20:31","modified_gmt":"2007-12-15T20:20:31","slug":"ill-take-a-12-pack-of-those","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/15\/ill-take-a-12-pack-of-those\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll take a 12-pack of those&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I have this gumball machine at my desk, which I fill with m&amp;ms (it makes my desk a high traffic area). After much investigation online and off, I have determined that the best rate for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.m-ms.com\/\">m&amp;ms<\/a>, both peanut and plain, is from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.costco.com\">Costco<\/a>. The problem is that I live in New York City and don&#8217;t have a car, so getting to Costco to buy m&amp;ms is rather difficult. So the solution: whenever I got on a roadtrip (Miami, Seattle, Washington) and I am near a Costco, I stop by and buy 10 huge bags of m&amp;ms and lug them home back to New York with me on the plane or the train (it weighs about 50 pounds). I was chastised by a friend by &#8220;contributing to global warming&#8221; by bringing these m&amp;ms on the plane with me (I&#8217;m sorry). Anyway. I was in a Costco in Miami picking up m&amp;ms, when I saw this brochure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/costcocoffin.JPG\" title=\"Costco coffin brochure from Miami in August 2007\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/costcocoffin.JPG\" title=\"Costco coffin brochure from Miami in August 2007\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/costcocoffin.JPG\" alt=\"Costco coffin brochure from Miami in August 2007\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They also have their offerings online, which range from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.costco.com\/Common\/Category.aspx?cat=23078&amp;eCat=BC%7C20595%7C23078&amp;lang=en-US\">$1,299 to $2,999,<\/a> and apparently significantly cheaper than what a local funeral home will charge you. But I must say, I have been to many Costcos in many states, an this is the first I saw where the brochures and casket samples were right where you entered the door.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.costco.com\/Common\/Category.aspx?cat=23078&amp;eCat=BC%7C20595%7C23078&amp;lang=en-US\">  <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I have this gumball machine at my desk, which I fill with m&amp;ms (it makes my desk a high traffic area). After much investigation online and off, I have determined that the best rate for m&amp;ms, both peanut and plain, is from Costco. The problem is that I live in New York City and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quirky"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-5o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}