The only Kirkland brand item I don't care for is the toilet paper. No proper substitute for Charmin.
I use Sam's Club solely because I can order online and they bring it out to my car. I'd switch to Costco in a heartbeat if that was an option.
if they are anything like kirkland jeans the condoms will be made of rugged durable material that will last for years
Nope. Scan the items in your cart with the app. Same has a person do a quick check of your items at the door. Never wait in a checkout line.
Shoot, I'd never buy new clothes if it wasn't for Costco. Just yesterday came home with a pair of $5 clearance shorts and new pair of sweatpants for the cooler weather ahead.
Post-Covid one of the biggest benefits for me has been the ground beef. Generally $2 cheaper than Fareway for the 93% lean packages.
Costco fees range from 65 to 130 a year. Call it 100 for easy math. HyVee charges twice as much for a jar of Rao's marinara as does Costco or Sam's. Breakeven is 10 jars of marinara. Add in everything else I posted and others have posted, and the savings is several thousand per year on consumable goods and household items. It has nothing to do with being part of a club.
We freeze meats/meals when deemed appropriate (especially if buying bulk meat at Costco).
That makes way more sense than buying them in bulk to save a few bucks and wasting half of it.
Why? I know the notion of waste is abhorrent but people are paid to pick and bring produce to market. The wholesale prices are the wholesale prices, and the mark up at HyVee, Costco, Sam's, etc. is the mark up. What is wrong with paying less for the produce consumed while keeping people in the agricultural industry around the world employed?
Okay bud, you justify your wastefulness anyway you want. I was just suggesting ways to avoid being wasteful.
It is just being smart. Literally a pack with 5 heads of romaine lettuce at Costco is $5. HyVee probably charges $5 for two heads of romaine, maybe 3. Twice as much, at least. A bag of limes is also like $5, and HyVee charges something like 2 limes for $3. You can get a box of vine-ripened tomatoes at Costco for somewhere between $5 and $10, and the same tomatoes would cost you $30 at HyVee. It just goes on and on and on.
That is just one aspect of Sam's/Costco. It literally adds up to thousands of dollars a year. Having a membership could be a huge swing freeing up cashflow for actual poors.
I agree with the membership saving money, just don’t agree with saving a little money on produce just to throw half of the product away. That’s just me, our family grows a lot of our own produce anyway and we can or freeze what we can’t consume.
I guess I look at as another car trip wasting my time and gas, when I can just knock it out all at once. I do respect the home garden game.
There’s not another grocery store in the vicinity of the Costco you frequent?
No. It is on the outer fringe of northeast ankeny. HyVee is almost 4 miles away from there.
