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Coca-Cola will return to Costco shelves next week, the Associated Press reports.

The wholesaler dropped the popular soft drink last month due to a pricing dispute, but that's been settled, Costco says.

Costco CFO Richard Galanti told investors Thursday that Coca-Cola would be back "around Monday," the AP said.

"Our signs basically said it all -- until we can provide our members with these products at competitive prices and provide our members with value, we are not prepared to sell it and we are now going to sell it," Galanti told the AP.

Coca-Cola didn't want to make the price cuts Costco wanted in order to keep profits high for the soft drink maker, the AP said.

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[Via Associated Press]

Coca-Cola is no longer available at Costco.

A Costco executive told the Associated Press that it is no longer carrying Coca-Cola products in its stores after a dispute over pricing with the Atlanta-based company.

Neither Costco nor Coca-Cola officials returned calls from Slashfood, but a Coca-Cola Co. executive told the AP the company wouldn't comment on the ongoing negotiations. The official said the company wanted to work out its differences with Costco "in a spirit of fairness." In addition to Coca-Cola soft drinks the company makes Sprite, Squirt, Dasani water, Full Throttle energy drinks.

[Via Associated Press]

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The suburbs are finally coming to the island of Manhattan as Costco is opening a 105,000 square-foot store in East Harlem on Thursday.

The store, at 116th Street and FDR drive, is the first store in the East River Plaza complex, WCBS-TV reports. But because it's Manhattan, this member's only warehouse club is 50 percent smaller than the average Costco.

[Via WCBS-TV]

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More Cameron Hughes - Wine of the Week after the jump.

There are many times that people have told me I was nuts for popping to Costco for a grocery run every now and then. They'd laugh over my huge packages of toilet paper and dish soap, and say that they don't think it's worth the steep membership fee. Sometimes, they're right -- there are products in there that seem like a good deal, but are no more (or, in fact, a little more) than regular store prices. But I just had to tell you Slashfoodies about my shallot find last weekend. Sometimes it's wonderful to buy in bulk.

Since I was out of shallots, I begrudgingly picked up a small bag of shallots at a big-box grocery store -- the bag only had 250 g, or 8.8 oz, which totaled approximately 5 shallots. As I put the bag in my cart, I wistfully remembered summer days where local shallots were cheap and plentiful, and then moved on. A few hours later, I found myself at Costco, staring at a three pound bag of shallots.

The cost difference? The smaller was $3, while the large bag was around double that. As you can see from the labels, they're both from the same company. It's a shallot dream come true.

Now I've just got to decide what to make with them....