Consumers have been complaining a lot about Costco's chicken over the past few months. First, consumers argued that its raw chicken was stringy and mushy . There were also objections when the retailer changed the packaging for its rotisserie chicken , replacing the traditional clam shell with plastic bags.
Consumers protested that the bags were leaking and questioned whether or not they were food safe. Now, new complaints are surfacing in the r/Costco subreddit about the company's chicken breasts having a woody texture. The initial poster emailed Costco's CEO, Ron Vachris, to voice concerns and received a response that drove even more grumbling on the social media site.
The poster, who goes by the handle thesaxmaniac, explained in their email to Vachris that they had been eating a Costco chicken breast every day for the previous six months. "The first couple of months were great," the poster wrote, noting the occasional piece of "gross chicken." However, they added, "Since then, the amount of jelly crunchy woody chicken breasts per package has increased dramatically to the point where I dread eating any breast over 8 ounces.
" Vachris' response, which thesaxmaniac shared as a screenshot, was fairly standard: "Thank you for the email and we will look into it right away. I apologize and you are entitled to a full refund on any below quality product that you have purchased." Crunchy like a Christmas ham slice After another poster in the Reddit thread tried to explain that the woo.