Yesterday, Costco Canada announced a safety recall for two varieties of their Kirkland Signature bakery cookies because they might have little bits of metal in them.  Luckily, no one has been injured or gotten sick from the cookies though.
The cookies that are being recalled are the really delicious Chocolate Chunk Cookies (Item #: 237361) and the Chocolate [...]

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Sony has announced a safety notification for Vaio notebooks that were sold between January 2010 and April 2010 at Costco, as well as Fry’s, Best Buy and Amazon.com.  There is a potential safety issue affecting certain units within the VPCF11 and VPCCW2 series of notebook PCs.  In rare instances, these notebook computers may overheat due to [...]

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You may have seen these really cute children’s beds that looked like a pirate ship at Costco over the last couple of years.  And if you bought one, you definitely want to be aware of the recall on them.  The pirate boat bed, Item # 213792, was sold exclusively at Costco from January 2006 through January [...]

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Daniele, Inc. announced a voluntary recall January 23rd for a whopping 1.24 million pounds of pepper-coated salame because of possible concerns about salmonella.  The outbreak has sicked 184 people in 38 states since July, but they were unable to determine the source until recently.  Fourteen people who have purchased Daniele products from Costco have also [...]

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Just recently, I wrote about purchasing a Honeywell Programmable Thermostat at Costco.  Unfortunately, it is now being recalled by Honeywell. Luckily for us, it doesn’t have a real safety issue associated with it, the problem lies with the software for scheduling.  Instead of it being truly 7-day programmable which means that you can have a [...]

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