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| Chicken or fish? London, ON March 2025 This photo originally shared on Instagram |
I’ve come here to pick up some fixins for dinner, including one of their legendary BBQ chickens that mercifully haven’t been price adjusted since the second Bush Administration.
I arrive at the chicken counter only to find it empty. Fresh chickens spin hypnotically in the high-tech ovens behind the display, but it’ll clearly be a while before they’re cooked and ready.
In typical Costco fashion, other shoppers are already lining up. Since I have a natural aversion to random lineups - and they’re roasting enough chickens in those ovens to feed a small nation - I decide a spontaneous smartphone photo shoot would be a better use of my time.
The fish freezers are mercifully devoid of people, so soon enough I’m peering at frozen sea bass and attempting to avoid the reflections off the clear plastic. The struggle is real.
I get a few stares along the way, which makes me smile, because photographic joy deserves to be shared, even in concrete suburban warehouses.
Eventually the chickens are ready, and the line-standers snap up their $7.99 bags almost as quickly as staffers can place them under the warming lights. I slowly circle back, looking for more spontaneous moments along the way.
There’s always another chicken to take home. Moments we get to hold onto - however strange they may seem - are an entirely different matter.
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