--- title: Costco Is Selling a $6,000 Doomsday Preparation Kit That Can Feed a Family of 4 for a Year description: Costco is selling emergency preparation kits for $1,000 to $6,000 filled with freeze-dried food to feed a family of four for up to a year. authors: - name: Allana Akhtar url: https://money.com/author/allana-akhtar/ at_money_since: 2017 articles: 101 covers: - Lifestyle - Business - Career Advice - Economy and Politics - Education - Identity Theft - Loans - Personal Finance - Retirement - Shopping - Technology former_staff: true published: '2018-03-09T18:47:19.000Z' modified: '2024-03-18T14:20:49.000Z' section: Lifestyle tags: - Apocalypse - Costco - Doomsday - emergency preparedness - North Korea word_count: 349 canonical: https://money.com/costco-doomsday-preparation-emergency-food-kit/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![US-WEATHER-HURRICANE-IRMA](https://img.money.com/2018/03/180309-costco-disaster-kit.jpg) *Very long checkout lines at Costco as some people waited up to 8 hours to check in, shop and leave in preparation for Hurricane Irma on September 5, 2017 in North Miami.* If President Donald Trump’s [upcoming North Korea summit](https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/09/politics/donald-trump-kim-jong-un-north-korea/index.html) has failed to allay your fears of impending nuclear warfare, Costco has got you covered**.** The mega-warehouse club chain is selling $6,000 doomsday preparation kits filled with enough food to feed a family of four for an entire year. Costco’s emergency food packs include freeze-dried fruits and vegetables with 25-year shelf lives, plus other pasta and grains that can last up to 30 years. The retailer also offers smaller, less expensive doomsday kits. The least expensive pack costs $1,000 and contains a year's supply of food for a single adult -- but assumes a diet of just 1,200 calories per day. (The $6,000 kit offers a more generous 2,000 calories per day. While Costco has been selling emergency prep kits [since at least 2010](https://consumerist.com/2017/10/05/costco-has-actually-been-selling-survivalist-food-packs-for-years/), interest in doomsday kits has spiked recently after tensions rose between the U.S. and North Korea, *[The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/11/business/prepper-survivalism-north-korea.html)* has reported. And Costco is not the only retailer profiting from apocalyptic anxiety. Sam’s Club sells a [$6,097 four-person gourmet kit](https://www.samsclub.com/sams/supreme1yrfor4adults-61-buckets-total/prod20621134.ip?xid=plp1760103-groc:product:1:37) with prepared meals like lasagna, teriyaki chicken and beef stroganoff; Walmart sells a cheaper one-year, four-person emergency food kit for [$3,634.59](https://www.walmart.com/ip/Augason-Farm-s-Deluxe-Emergency-1-Year-Food-Supply-4-Person-360-10-Cans/22985173). Keith Bansemer, the vice president of marketing at My Patriot Supply -- which, he says, has been selling doomsday supplies since 2008 -- says the sales of food storage and water filters for radiation quadrupled after North Korea [tested long-range missiles](https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/28/politics/north-korea-missile-launch/index.html) in November. He expects sales to increase again if people "perceive a threat" around Trump's planned talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. ‘These news stories break and almost immediately we see a response come in," Bansemer says. "The thought of the U.S. being attacked by a nuclear threat is one of the things families prepare for." Costco, for its part, has declined to reveal how many doomsday kits it has sold, according to a report in the *[Detroit Free Press](https://www.freep.com/story/money/business/michigan/2017/10/01/food-survival-kits-costco-disasters/703495001/)*. The company did say, however, that the kit is a great value “for a family who wanted to prepare for any kind of disaster.” The retailer has not responded to Money’s request for additional comment. ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/costco-doomsday-preparation-emergency-food-kit/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Lifestyle", "item": "https://money.com/lifestyle/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Health and Wellness", "item": "https://money.com/health-and-wellness/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Costco Is Selling a $6,000 Doomsday Preparation Kit That Can Feed a Family of 4 for a Year" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/costco-doomsday-preparation-emergency-food-kit/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/costco-doomsday-preparation-emergency-food-kit/", "name": "Costco Is Selling a $6,000 Doomsday Preparation Kit That Can Feed a Family of 4 for a Year", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2018-03-09T18:47:19.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/costco-doomsday-preparation-emergency-food-kit/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/costco-doomsday-preparation-emergency-food-kit/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2024-03-18T14:20:49.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "Costco Is Selling a $6,000 Doomsday Preparation Kit That Can Feed a Family of 4 for a Year", "articleSection": "Lifestyle", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2018/03/180309-costco-disaster-kit.jpg", "width": 6016, "height": 4016, "caption": "180309-costco-disaster-kit" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Allana Akhtar", "url": "https://money.com/author/allana-akhtar/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/allana-akhtar/#author" } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2018-03-09T18:47:19.000Z", "description": "Costco is selling emergency preparation kits for $1,000 to $6,000 filled with freeze-dried food to feed a family of four for up to a year.", "abstract": "Costco is selling emergency preparation kits for $1,000 to $6,000 filled with freeze-dried food to feed a family of four for up to a year.", "@id": "https://money.com/costco-doomsday-preparation-emergency-food-kit/", "inLanguage": "en-US", "dateModified": "2024-03-18T14:20:49.000Z", "wordCount": 349, "keywords": [ "Apocalypse", "Costco", "Doomsday", "emergency preparedness", "North Korea" ], "about": [ { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Lifestyle", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyle" ] }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Health", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health" ] } ] } ] } ```