Weekend Update! – Costco Sale Items for Oct 2-4, 2020 for BC, AB, MB, SK
Location: Port Coquitlam, BC Costco Warehouse
Hi Everyone!
I excited to announce that this week’s post has once again been sponsored by Oroweat Organic bread – Quinoa & Sunflower Seed Bread. This is a new product currently offered in Western Canada Costco Warehouses. CLICK HERE to read our whole review! Oroweat has also sponsored a great Facebook contest as is giving away (3) $50 Costco Cash Cards! The contest ends Sunday, October 4, 2020. To find out how to enter, read the review to the bottom: https://cocowest.ca/2020/09/contest-time-oroweat-organic-quinoa-sunflower-seed-loaf-review/
The Oroweat Organic Quinoa & Sunflower Seed Bread is made in British Columbia and uses sustainable baking processes, plus Oroweat has partnered with Tree Canada to support environmental and community initiatives in Western Canada – those are all nice bonuses in my opinion. On top of all that the bread is soft , tasty and great for sandwiches!
I hope everyone is doing well! You will see some changes in this week’s blog including some brand new photo captions for each photo! These captions are the starting point for some new blog features including product search and sale notifications for members. You can now use these captions to search for a specific product inside the page [CTRL-F] inside your web browser or mobile device instead of scrolling through a couple hundred photos to find a specific item! I’ve also added in small watermark on the bottom left of each photo – to prevent image theft. We are also making our way through upgrading the website to make it easier to browse.
There are lots of great things on sale this week so it is a good time to go to Costco. If you go in the morning, there was still a reasonable amount of paper towels and toilet paper. I noticed that limits on some products including paper products (1) yeast (1) and thermometers (3) were back in force. Other than that, just pick up some Oroweat – we finished our 2 pack already and it is great!
Thank you so much for taking the time to do this for us!
Does anyone happen to know how much they are selling the nespresso essenza mini coffee machine at the warehouse? It’s listed as $159.99 on the site but wondering if it will be a different price at the warehouse. Thank you! 🙂
Thanks for all the work you are doing!
The captions are a great idea for the searchable function. The watermark is not a bad size, it has not covered any pertinent information about the products. I am able to right click on the photo, then select “Open in a new tab” in Chrome which opens as a full sized picture.
Thanks for all your time – I can’t imagine how much time it takes every time you go then having to post online. This is time you could spend with your family. I truly appreciate you spreading the Costco love.
Thumbs up on captions – searchable feature would be amazing.
Interesting changes. The photos don’t link to a larger view, and the description is printed underneath the photo.
Would be nice if the sale date was in the description (when it goes on sale and when it’s last sale day is).
I used to have a handheld battery powered scanner. I sometimes took it to Costco to scan their sales tags. It had OCR software too, so it converted the text in the scan. I think it was called a Doxie Go scanner….if that’s of any help.
Hi Thomas, I’m working on getting the photos to link back to the full sized photo. We’ve just run into a couple of bugs with the automation. I’ll also be adding expiry dates in future posts. This was my first live test to see if the main functionality is there.
Hi Barbara, the additional captions are part of an upgrade to start creating a searchable index of previous sale items and products. I can get rid of the additional captions, but I think it might be a benefit to anyone who is searching for a specific item by using the search feature.
Thanks for posting! It would be great if we could always see the expiry or end date of the sales on the sign or included below your pics in the details. Would make it easier to plan when we need to shop by. 🙂
Hi, has anyone seen the 12v beach buggy In Saskatchewan costco? 🙂
Thank you so much for taking the time to do this for us!
Does anyone happen to know how much they are selling the nespresso essenza mini coffee machine at the warehouse? It’s listed as $159.99 on the site but wondering if it will be a different price at the warehouse. Thank you! 🙂
hi, on what day of the week these pictures were taken? I find Costco has promotion throughout the week these days. Thanks
Weekend update photos are taken on Friday. The Monday posts photos are taken on Monday.
Thanks for all the work you are doing!
The captions are a great idea for the searchable function. The watermark is not a bad size, it has not covered any pertinent information about the products. I am able to right click on the photo, then select “Open in a new tab” in Chrome which opens as a full sized picture.
That’s a lot of work there to add the written description there. Yikes. It will be handy as you say when the search index will completed.
Perhaps you can make your watermark a little smaller, what do you think?
What is the price on the wok system? The tag is for the coffee grinder. Thanks.
$63.99
Re: expiry date – I have a MAC and if you right click on the picture and “open in a new tab” it makes the picture big enough to read the expiry date
wow… typing the item info below the picture must have more than doubled the amount of time this “job” is taking you!
Thank you so much for your time!
Hi Valerie, the process is automated – I use text recognition to help with the process. 🙂
Very helpful to have the item and price info below. Making the page searchable adds huge functionality. Bravo on this first step!
Thanks for all your time – I can’t imagine how much time it takes every time you go then having to post online. This is time you could spend with your family. I truly appreciate you spreading the Costco love.
Thumbs up on captions – searchable feature would be amazing.
{THUMBS-UP} on adding “searchable index of previous sale items and products.”. Not redundant; just thinking ahead.
Interesting changes. The photos don’t link to a larger view, and the description is printed underneath the photo.
Would be nice if the sale date was in the description (when it goes on sale and when it’s last sale day is).
I used to have a handheld battery powered scanner. I sometimes took it to Costco to scan their sales tags. It had OCR software too, so it converted the text in the scan. I think it was called a Doxie Go scanner….if that’s of any help.
Hi Thomas, I’m working on getting the photos to link back to the full sized photo. We’ve just run into a couple of bugs with the automation. I’ll also be adding expiry dates in future posts. This was my first live test to see if the main functionality is there.
Weird set up today.. it seems a bit redundant to have prices and information below the picture when the price is already in the picture..
Hi Barbara, the additional captions are part of an upgrade to start creating a searchable index of previous sale items and products. I can get rid of the additional captions, but I think it might be a benefit to anyone who is searching for a specific item by using the search feature.
Agree with Kelly!!!
The burr grinder is listed on the Wok as well. Just FYI 😉
Thanks for posting! It would be great if we could always see the expiry or end date of the sales on the sign or included below your pics in the details. Would make it easier to plan when we need to shop by. 🙂
Hi Kelly, I try to take the best photos I can on the price tag, but sometimes it is just too far away to be able to make out the expiry date.
What is the price for the stainless steel wok, it has the price tag for the mill grinder?
Thank you
$63.99
For more warehouse deals valid through 10/04, go to: https://www.costco.ca/warehouse-hot-buys.html
Thanks Barbara! I added these items to the post 🙂