Costco Membership..
- Thread starter Dinomania
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I have Costco membership,and will be renewing it next year. Its worth it for me as they sell Mobil1 for £20, thats less than half price of everywhere else!
For some bulk stuff I go with a few mates, buy whatever we want in bulk and split it between us - that way you get the decent prices, but dont end up with a million litres of tomato sauce
For some bulk stuff I go with a few mates, buy whatever we want in bulk and split it between us - that way you get the decent prices, but dont end up with a million litres of tomato sauce
, and you can buy a giant Peri Peri hot sauce for about £8, nom+1.I won't be renewing my Costco membership this year because there is a Makro 5 mins away from Costco and there isn't too much of a difference in price. Makro you don't have to buy in bulk, with Costco you are possibly buying more than you actually 'need'.. so you end up spending more money in the long run?
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We have one down south, it's like any supermarket these days, if you happen to stumble across a bargain (within your normal shopping) then you're sorted. However that kind of thing is too random to make it part of a reason for choosing one store over another.
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been a member since the derby store opened. Above is largely true nowadays, costco has been going steadily downhill in the last 5 years, unless your a convenieince store owner....
I call in about once a month now to do a bulk shop of day to day stuff, dog food. wash liquid etc. Most of it's no cheaper than shopping around, some is MORE expensive. Long gone are the days when I'd see something I wanted at a very good price and impulse buy. For example their IT stuff is horrendously over priced, the tv section used to be competetive with a great warranty but they've diluted the warranty on everything nowadays. I tend to combine the trip with other things like toys r us etc and usually have luch there.
If your local to one and even better could walk there in your lunch break, go for it. You'll recoup the £25+vat easily having luch there once a week. If not (like me) then I'd probably try it for a year and go from there.
IMO the meat and fish are of much better quality than any supermarket. We buy all our meat and fish there once a month, portion it all up and freeze it all. The muffins etc are also great and are huge. Also some of the wine (Rosemount) the wife gets is much better value than supermarkets.
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The meat there is great. Probably no cheaper than the supermarkets, but much better quality. The bakery products are really good as well - muffins, bagels, danish pastries etc as well as the cakes and deserts.
Some of the stuff is no cheaper than you can get elsewhere, but if you search around there are some real bargains to be had. They also stock some US products that are difficult to find elsewhere, such as really good peanut butter.
