no cinnamon buns, but did see diced tomatoes (went on Saturday the 9th)
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I asked at the Zhonghe Costco two weeks ago and they said, āTheyāre not coming back.ā 
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Yeah, somebody somewhere did say that, but I think there was another reply saying āNo they havenāt!ā
They have custard filled croissants now. Yum.
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when i was there alst week it was red bean and mochiā¦
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Saw these last week. Tempted, but didnāt think theyād freeze well and didnāt want to feel obligated to eat them all while theyāre fresh. Were they good?
Noooooooooooooooo!!! If Costco goes the way of the local market like Carrefour, Cold Stone, and other ālifelinesā of Westerners, I might actually take the US$75k/yr teaching gig I was offered and get out of here. I donāt āneedā Western food to survive, but I have always appreciated that Costco remained genuinely āAmericanā in the bakery section. Now thereās no chocolate chip bagels, the bagels they do sell are always āburntā but ācooked correctlyā based on Taiwanese standards of āburning baked goods is the only way to prepare themā, cinnamon rolls are gone, and theyāre selling red bean and mochi. I have nothing against red bean or mochi, but itās available EVERYWHERE in this country.
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I feel itās also important to stress that āred bean ice creamā or āmung bean ice creamā isnāt f###ing ice cream, in the same way that a āradish cookieā isnāt a f###ing cookie. 
the thing is, 2 weeks before that it was apple fillingā¦ i was planning to buy apple and only founf red been mochi.
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Thatās sort of been happening forever, hasnāt it? I remember reading those laments in Costco threads from ten or twelve years ago, before I was even a member.
I believe the cinnamon rolls only appeared recently anyway, so their loss doesnāt quite hit as hard as the loss of big blocks of cheddar and pepper jack did. Or the thick bacon that used to be there.
Iām concerned that I havenāt seen a variety pack of Kirkland āmicroā brews in a long while.
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Yeah maybe Iām overreacting? Idk, Iāve only been a member for ~2 years and ignored all the chatter before then. Iāve only bought cinnamon rolls from there twice, froze most of them and ate them one at a time for Sunday breakfasts but only sometimesā¦ When I walk into a large grocery chains in the US and dance through the aisles with excitement about all the things that i could buy and walk out with most of the same basic food that I could buy anywhere in Taiwan, yeah thatās mostly how I am with Costco here. But the joy of knowing itās there. I feel theres something primordial in nature about knowing that it was there and now maybe it wonāt. Not that I need cinnamon rolls to survive, though replacing them with red beans might send me to an early graveā¦
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Three were custard, three were like a taro/custard mix. The custard ones were better. In my house, no freezer is needed. I would buy them again.
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Pardon me if itās been asked and replied to already, but if you purchase something from one Costco branch can you return it for a refund at another branch?
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My wife says yes you can.
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Just tested it out. All systems go.
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In the food shortages thread, some people have mentioned that Costco is running low on some products? How are they doing on ground beef? How about chicken (not ground)? Thatās the #1 and 2 things I go for so itās not worth the trip if I canāt get it. Iāll have to plan to go super early in the morning.
Iām not sure how Iād be able to tell with Costco. Their stock varies so much anyway. When is the stock running low, versus when is it just not available this month / quarter?
chicken no problem, ground beef runs out fast.
Bugger, planning to make a run later.