For myself, the membership is worth the items I can’t get elsewhere. But if they double it? No, I’ll make do without.
I didn’t renew after seeing the employees become rude belligerent tyrants during the Covid mask hysteria.
I shop at Sams instead, as I don’t see the need to Virtue Signal.
My experience tells me that the average Costco customer is a large Asian family who like to all shop together and block the aisles as much as humanly possible.
I like Costco. In the summer, I make lots of Greek salads because it’s too hot to cook. I find the cost of the ingredients at Costco to be much less expensive and much fresher than at local grocery stores.
The only thing I don’t like about Costco, is that the nearest one to my home, is the highest volume Costco store in Canaduh, so it is ALWAYS extremely busy.
Costco customers spend more per year on grovery items than do bargain/sale conscious super market customers, and bargain/sale conscious super market pay no annual fee to the supermarkets they patronize, which are often more than one.
I have never found an electronics or appliance “bargain” at Costco that was not beat somewhere else.
Picanha at $5.99/lb and a vacuum wrapper alone make it worth it.
The Costco I go to, they are all from India.
My wife and I are members at Sam’s. We like Sam’s better than Costco.
One of my coworkers only gets his gas at the Costco, which is about a 20 minute drive for him from his house. He tells me he has to wait in line usually around 30 minutes, to save the 10 cents/gallon.
I’ve tried to talk sense into him, but the dude is stubborn. He has a Kia Soul, which can only have a max 13 gallon tank (could be 9 possibly), so I say the most amount you can save is $1.30. For a 30 minute wait and 40 minute driving round trip!
First of all, he eats up all his savings just on the commute to the Costco and back. Second, doesn’t your time have any value to you? You’re so pathetic that you don’t mind spending an hour of your life, your free time from work, every week just to get gasoline?
And I’ve seen the fees to get a membership at Costco. I’d be surprised if you save enough on their products in total through the year to cover that fee. I’ve also seen how packed their parking lot is all the time, there’s no way the hassle and dealing with those packed aisles and waits at the checkout can be worth it, no freaking way!
Absolute worst place I’ve ever shopped. Wife sent me there on a weekend with a list recently, and I couldn’t find half the stuff or they were out, couldn’t find an acceptable English speaker to help me find stuff, zillions of other customers there, many of whom were rude and selfishly blocked aisles and intersections, and Costco accepts only Mastercard (not AmEx, not Visa, not Discovery). Guy at door checking merch asked how was my experience, and I said horrible, worst place I’ve ever been, ain’t never coming back. And he blamed me for the situation, asked well what did I expect and said I shouldn’t have come on the worst day of the week for them.
Sam’s Club is cleaner, more open, more attentive and more responsive to customers, and usually has what I want and I can find it or where it’s supposed to be without having to play MIME to a clueless non-English speaking worker when trying to get help.
Shoot, even Walmart is better, unless you need a huge box of 50 jumbo bags of multiple flavors of plant-based pork rinds at a “bulk bargain price.” Then go knock yourself out at ChumpCo.
Sam’s and Costco vs the average prices for staples at grocery stores is no comparison. The savings may not be as much as they were in the past, but compared to what’s available on the marketplace, particularly for perishables, they’re still attractive.
around here it’s like a trip to India.
No salmon burgers of late.
NOT a full content shopping venue.
Welcome to Costco. I love you.
My wife and I signed up for memberships at Costco. I heard many good rumors about their prices and decided to find out for myself.
I was disappointed after a few times visiting my local Costco. Their prices are actually higher than what I can find at my local Walmart or local Target. And shopping in bulk doesn’t add up either, since the prices my wife and I saw were no cheaper than if we bought the same amounts elsewhere.
So, my wife and I will keep our memberships, because, the price for gasoline in their adjacent gas stations really is cheaper, where we can save around 20 cents per gallon. But, I still haven’t made back the ‘price of admission’. The $3-4 I save per tankful of gas will make the memberships worth it, but only after 1-2 years.
For my wife and I, Costco savings are a myth.
We did buy my father in laws casket at Costco. Massive savings and the funeral director was impressed with the quality and next day delivery.
I wonder how BJs compares to Costco. We have both, within a few blocks of each other. The Costco gas station is in the same huge parking lot as the store, whereas the BJs gas station is many miles away and thus not used by me. I have a standard short list of items I find cheaper at BJs than at other stores, but most stuff is in too large a quantity for me or just stuff (like junk food) that I do not buy.
buying gas from them pays for membership in no time.