just for you eva
here is another article on the same thing with a price and a picture too
CHICAGO (AFP) - A US discount warehouse chain known for piling 'em high, and selling 'em cheap, is offering cut-price coffins along with the buckets of ketchup and two-gallon tubs of ice-cream under a new pilot program.
Costco Wholesale Corp. began selling the 800-dollar caskets in two of its Chicago stores this week and has already taken some orders, spokesman Bob Nelson said.
The Universal Casket Company caskets come in six models in a variety of colours and 18-gauge steel. Consumers place an order electronically and their coffin is delivered to their home within 48 hours.
The chain is watching the experiment closely and could put caskets on the shopping list of all its warehouses stores if it's a success.
"This is not something we have a lot of experience with," said Nelson, "but we felt it was an area where we could offer a value."
Costco estimates the asking price for its casket in a funeral home would be closer to 3,500 dollars and said that it hoped to appeal to consumers turned off by the price gouging of many funeral homes.
"People are taken advantage of at a very difficult time when they don't want to think about dollars and cents," said Nelson.
The chain, based in Issaquah, Washington state, chain buys goods in bulk and sells them cheap to its 40 million members who pay a yearly fee for the privilege of shopping at its warehouses.
The chain has 438 warehouses in the North America, Mexico, Puerto Rico, the United Kingdom, Korea, Taiwan, and Japan and did about 48 billion dollars in sales this fiscal year.
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