***Costco Sample Update For February 08, 2010***

Since Kyle gave his Costco card to his brother last week, todays samples ended up going sdrawkcab cause we had to sneak in the exit.  The lineup included: Marcona Almonds, Fruit Source fruit bar variety snacks, Sensible Portions baked veggie-crisp 'chips' of sorts, Progresso High Fiber Chicken Tuscany Vegetable Soup, Cattle Drive Chili with beans and Tillamook shredded cheddar, Maranatha almond butter and crackers, Sabatassos Deep Dish singles pizza, Pasta Prima Ravioli spinach and mozzarella, Raybern Philly cheese steak, Kirkland meatballs with Kirkland basic pesto, Kirkland Signature Organic 2% chocolate milk, Tyson reduced fat sausage, Kirkland Tortilla chips with Stonemill Kitchens artichoke and jalapeno dip, Fletcher's Black Forest ham, Mary's Gone Organic VTY crackers with Tillamook colby cheese, and Dave's Killer Organic Good Seed bread.  

Overall Rating: 7.1  Sample of the Day: Raybern Philly Cheese Steak - being a newcomer on the scene he held his ground well, and was delicious. Now that that's out of the way, I should mention that due to personally held preferences the first (or second) half of this didn't meet my fancy.  And I'm docking Fletcher's Black Forest and Tyson on their individual reports (which I've already sent out) for not serving kosher products. I'm rewarding the Sabatassos sample lady for serving the pizza slightly crisp and just the way I like it.  The Pasta Prima Ravioli lady on the other hand is being docked for not getting the product into a single one of our 3 experienced sample testers hands today.  No one even saw the finished product.  This is pretty unheard of with us, we show up to eat, and if we don't get a sample it either means:

1. The ragamuffin's are out of hand grabbing multiple samples at a time. (small stun guns can solve this if used tactfully)

2. Single mother's providing carts full of kids with samples.

3. Crazy crowds that logistically destroy or strongly lower our chances at getting every sample.

Of course I've seen situations with number 2 where it didn't even slow Kyle down.  It was the Grands Cinnamon Roll sample, and for as much as I love Pillsbury Grand's Cinnamon rolls (you can reference a myriad of independant sources on this going back at least 8 years) I still wasn't willing to box out a mother even if she did show up after me.  But I guess that's why Kyle is a Senior Sampler and I'm just a peon.  And why people hate him.

Anyways, if the Pasta Prima lady doesn't turn it around tomorrow I plan in orchestrating a Citizen's Firing and taking up the post myself.  Look for it.