{"id":39368,"date":"2025-04-21T14:55:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T14:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/its-disneyland-for-preppers-why-apocalypse-minded-shoppers-go-to-costco\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T14:55:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T14:55:13","slug":"its-disneyland-for-preppers-why-apocalypse-minded-shoppers-go-to-costco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/its-disneyland-for-preppers-why-apocalypse-minded-shoppers-go-to-costco\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s Disneyland for preppers\u2019: why apocalypse-minded shoppers go to Costco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A doomsday meal bucket drew attention to something end-timers have known forever: the bulk store is the perfect place for stockpiling<\/p>\n<p>Last summer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/01\/costco-workers-strike\">Costco<\/a> shoppers noticed something new on the big-box store\u2019s shelves. For the low, low price of $62.99, preparedness-minded customers could snatch up what one food influencer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C82dQkuvGIe\/\">called<\/a> a \u201cCostco apocalypse dinner kit\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Think of the kit as a KFC-style bucket, but instead of fried chicken, it is stuffed with an emergency supply of 132 meals \u2013 including pouches of dehydrated macaroni and cheese, apple cinnamon cereal and chicken pot pie \u2013 promised to last up to 25 years in storage, or until the big one hits.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/21\/costco-preppers-apocalypse-meal-kit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A doomsday meal bucket drew attention to something end-timers have known forever: the bulk store is the perfect place for stockpiling Last summer, Costco shoppers noticed something new on the big-box store\u2019s shelves. For the low, low price of $62.99, preparedness-minded customers could snatch up what one food influencer called a \u201cCostco apocalypse dinner kit\u201d. &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018It\u2019s Disneyland for preppers\u2019: why apocalypse-minded shoppers go to Costco\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/its-disneyland-for-preppers-why-apocalypse-minded-shoppers-go-to-costco\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018It\u2019s Disneyland for preppers\u2019: why apocalypse-minded shoppers go to Costco\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}