Is what I bought at $6.00 just regular pot roast?
Should it have been $4.00?
Click link at OP to see Costco description.
As far as I know that's a standard chuck roast. I don't usually look at them when I'm in Costco, so I can't say for sure what they are asking for them at my local Costco, but I suspect they are around $4.50/lb.. I do look at them when I'm in my Sam's club, and they run about $4.50/lb there. Costco never sells meat at discount when it's about to expire... I know this for sure because one day I saw a PRIME packer brisket in the case at Costco that had actually gone past it's sell date, I thought maybe I could get a deal so I asked a guy from the meat department about it, asked if they would sell it at a discount and he said no, we don't do that... I asked what they do with them, and it wasn't 100% clear, but he implied they grind them up for burger... ( he pointed out that the way they label these, the sell date is like a week after the pack date and being cryovac sealed it has much longer life than what the sell by date said ( Although I was and am still skeptical of his comments in this regard )) So anyway, because costco never discounts meat near expire date, I generally don't look at Chuck roasts there, because I know they cost more then I will pay for them... Sam's on the other hand, will discount meat that's about to expire, and a chuck roast is discounted that way, it's much closer to what I'm willing to pay for one.