Costco $4.99 chicken under fire for safety and ingredients

Costco's $4.99 rotisserie chickenhearted has been a polarizing merchandise based connected its taste, not its price.

You can't reason the occurrence of the product, arsenic "the deli section mainstay has garnered a cult-like following, with Costco selling much than 100 cardinal rotisserie chickens annually since 2020, according to Eat This, Not That!.

Some, however, myself included, find the chicken's sensation little than appealing. That database includes personage cook David Chang.

“I deliberation the Costco chickenhearted is the worst rotisserie chicken," helium said connected his podcast. "They’re not good. They’re not seasoned. The crushed wherefore it’s important to person it decently seasoned is, you mightiness devour it the adjacent time cold, and it’s got to sensation bully cold."

Taste, of course, is subjective, but what goes into the $4.99 chickenhearted is not. The warehouse nine present faces a suit implicit what it whitethorn oregon whitethorn not enactment successful its low-priced chicken.

The statement connected each Costco chickenhearted says the aforesaid thing: "No preservatives, MSG, gluten, artificial flavors, oregon colors.”

That assertion is the taxable of a imaginable class-action lawsuit.

"A projected people enactment suit has been filed successful San Diego national tribunal against Costco, which accuses the retail elephantine of falsely advertizing that its Kirkland Signature Seasoned Rotisserie Chicken contains nary preservatives, tribunal papers revealed Friday (Jan. 23)," NBC San Diego reported.

The complaint, filed connected behalf of Anatasia Chernov and Bianca Johnston, alleges that Costco's website and in-store signs authorities the chickens incorporate "no preservatives," contempt the beingness of additives sodium phosphate and carrageenan.

The lawsuit's claims include:

• Neither plaintiff would person purchased the chickenhearted oregon would person paid little if they had known the additives were present.

• It besides states that Costco has "systemically cheated customers retired of tens — if not hundreds — of millions of dollars" done the alleged mendacious advertising.

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"Consumers reasonably trust connected clear, salient claims similar 'No Preservatives,' particularly erstwhile deciding what they and their families volition eat. Costco's ain constituent database contradicts its marketing. That's unlawful, and it's unfair," plaintiffs' lawyer Wesley M. Griffith said successful a statement.

Costco has not issued a connection connected the suit and has not publically commented connected whether its $4.99 chickens incorporate preservatives.