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Hackensack Discussion / Costco
« on: March 17, 2022, 02:45:29 PM »
Costco Wholesale members who live in Hackensack are doubly blessed with access to 2 Costco warehouses, not just one.

The Costco Wholesale warehouse in Hackensack -- which dated to the early 1990s -- closed in October 2015 and a new, far bigger Costco Wholesale opened the next day a few miles away in the Teterboro Landing shopping center near the busy business airport.

Then in March 2016, the original warehouse reopened, but this time as a Costco Business Center, which caters to small and big businesses, but which is also open to any Costco member and stocks about 30% of the items sold in Teterboro. Today, there are only 24 Costco Business Centers in the United States and the one in Hackensack is the only one in the Northeast. The next closest one appears to be in Bedford Park, Ill.

Costco is a membership warehouse and the basic one costs $60; Executive Members pay $120 a year. Your membership fee is refunded each year in cash back from using the no-fee Costco Visa credit card: You get 4% back at the Costco gas station in Teterboro, where a gallon of gas is 15 cents to 20 cents less than elsewhere, as well as at any other gas station, 3% back from restaurants, and rebates for Costco Travel purchases and on whatever you buy in the warehouse.

And only Costco members can take advantage of sale items every month (the discount is taken at the register). As a non-member, you can accompany a member into the warehouse and buy items, but cash isn't accepted.

The Covid-19 pandemic led to shortages at both Costcos and price hikes, but the trend toward more organic items continued.

Kirkland Signature is Costco's house label and you will usually find it on items that are superior to and selling for less than competing national brands, as well as on many organic items and wild-caught seafood. One glaring exception is the $4.99 Rotisserie Chicken sold in Teterboro. Read: http://thesassonreport.blogspot.com/2021/09/costcos-rotisserie-bird-is-glaring.html

The Business Center in Hackensack is far less busy than the bigger Teterboro warehouse, opens earlier and closes earlier, too. The Teterboro warehouse has been opening at 9 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays during and after the Covid-19 pandemic to accommodate members 60 years old and older, as well as health care workers and first responders, but that will end starting the week of April 18, 2022, when the normal starting time of 10 a.m. will return.

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Hackensack Discussion / Re: Recycling
« on: March 17, 2022, 02:14:41 PM »
Why do you think it is all show?

As far as I know, Hackensack has single stream recycling, where paper, cardboard, cans, bottles and recyclable plastic are comingled before they are shipped off to a recycling plant, where the sorting occurs.

Hackensack also recycles yard trimmings and debris into compost.

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Community Soapbox / Re: Consumer Reports' 2022 Auto Issue
« on: March 12, 2022, 10:41:14 AM »
A Consumer Reports Top 10 list devoted only to gas-electric hybrids and electric vehicles makes even more sense in light of higher prices for a gallon of regular gasoline: "The nationwide average for regular gas is now $4.32 a gallon, according to AAA. On Wednesday, the cost was $4.25, once again eclipsing the previous all-time record of $4.11 set in July 2008. When adjusted for inflation, that would be around $5.25 today, USA Today reported.

On Thursday, I paid $4.09 for a gallon of regular at Costco in Teterboro, where the full service station is open to both Costco members and non-members. On Tuesday, the price was $3.91 a gallon.

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Community Soapbox / Consumer Reports' 2022 Auto Issue
« on: March 10, 2022, 04:49:25 PM »
Another disappointing Top 10 automobile list
from Consumer Reports magazine


No Teslas make the list

https://thesassonreport.blogspot.com/2022/03/if-consumer-reports-auto-editors-cared.html

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Hackensack Discussion / Polifly Road hit-run fatality a year ago today
« on: March 04, 2022, 02:05:29 PM »
Bergen prosecutor is stumped on identity of driver
 who killed Hackensack woman, 81, and fled


READ:
http://thesassonreport.blogspot.com/2022/03/bergen-prosecutor-is-stumped-on.html

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Hackensack Discussion / Re: County streets and city streets
« on: March 03, 2022, 04:24:36 PM »
For many years, two side-by-side traffic lanes on Prospect Avenue and Passaic Street going toward Euclid Avenue were unmarked with arrows, but turn arrows were finally added to the left lane by the city of Hackensack after repeated requests to the Bergen County road department were ignored for years. I'd post a photo here, if I could figure out how to do that.

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Hackensack Discussion / Re: My favorite paper is not having a good day
« on: February 27, 2022, 03:07:32 PM »
Gannett says circulation of The Record
and North Jersey.com dropped dramatically in 2021


Shrinks to 39,683 daily, 48,684 on Sunday

https://thesassonreport.blogspot.com/2022/02/readers-continued-to-drop-record-and.html


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A few years ago, YMCA officials said they had their eyes on the Sears building and would like to move there and expand.

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Hackensack Discussion / County streets and city streets
« on: February 24, 2022, 03:59:33 PM »
I've been upset that Bergen County, which "owns" many streets in Hackensack and the other towns in the county, hasn't installed walk/don't walk signs at Passaic Street and Summit Avenue for pedestrians after a woman was run down and then run over last year nor done anything to make Polifly Road safer after another woman was killed by a hit-run driver as she was crossing to the CVS in darkness (there are no crosswalks or adequate lights for 6 bocks of Polifly from Essex to Lodi streets). But it turns out that at least in Hackensack, Bergen only is responsible only for parts of Summit Avenue and other streets I formerly thought of as being under the supervision of the county. I haven't been able to reach anyone at the county, including the public information officer, Michael Pagan, who is also a Teaneck councilman.

I wrote two blog posts on these topics:


http://thesassonreport.blogspot.com/2022/02/dont-curse-potholes-and-rough-pavement.html

http://thesassonreport.blogspot.com/2022/01/bergen-officials-fail-to-add-safety.html

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Hackensack Discussion / Re: My favorite paper is not having a good day
« on: February 24, 2022, 09:19:41 AM »
The Record didn't have a Saturday edition when I started working there as a reporter in the late 1970s (1978-9), and I recall the Borgs started publishing one in the late 1980s, when I was on the copy desk, but still writing a monthly road test of a new car. I started doing the road tests as part of my Business News beat covering the auto importers in Bergen County (Volvo, Mercedes-Benz, BMW and others).

Space was so tight in the Saturday paper that my car review was cut and done crudely.

As a Business News reporter, I also wrote stories analyzing whether Alfa Romeo and Peugeot would be able to continue doing business in the U.S. by marketing a comeback model; neither was able to do so. 

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Community Soapbox / Re: Eating In + Eating Out
« on: February 23, 2022, 10:03:41 PM »
A trio of recipes from Victor's Healthy Kitchen on YouTube

Pasta with Yogurt, Haddock and Kimchi Stew, and Monkfish with Spinach

http://thesassonreport.blogspot.com/2022/02/here-are-3-recipes-pasta-with-yogurt.html

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Community Soapbox / Re: The Sasson Report
« on: February 20, 2022, 05:52:04 PM »
BOOM! YOU JUST HIT ANOTHER POTHOLE
ON A BERGEN COUNTY OWNED STREET
AND YOU'RE PISSED


READ:https://thesassonreport.blogspot.com/2022/02/dont-curse-potholes-and-rough-pavement.html

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Community Soapbox / Re: The Sasson Report
« on: January 31, 2022, 12:37:01 PM »
BERGEN OFFICIALS FAIL TO ADD SAFETY MEASURES MANY MONTHS AFTER 2 WOMEN WERE KILLED CROSSING THE STREET

https://thesassonreport.blogspot.com/2022/01/bergen-officials-fail-to-add-safety.html

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Community Soapbox / Re: The Sasson Report
« on: January 01, 2022, 09:02:29 AM »
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO 'THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT'?

http://thesassonreport.blogspot.com/2021/12/bells-toll-for-death-of-customer.html

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Community Soapbox / Re: The Sasson Report
« on: November 11, 2021, 01:57:23 PM »
A NEW EV IN OUR GARAGE
AND THE RECORD STIFFS ITS STAFF AGAIN


http://thesassonreport.blogspot.com/2021/11/we-make-room-for-new-ev-in-garage-lazy.html

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