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>subsidizing private business out of cuckoldedness
I used to save a good amount of money on milk, eggs, cheese, gas, olive oil, berries, and nuts. I ended up saving money by shopping there because of that. But they raised their prices and I kind of just break even now at best.
Yeah it used to be that everything was cheap, now some stuff like milk at 'co is more expensive despite being sold in 2/3 gallon carts
I used to save enough on milk alone to make up the membership fee sometimes. But now the milk is more expensive than local stores.
>'co
That's because your local grocery store might be taking a bigger hit on milk to lure customers in.
Costco is generally a better deal with more curated potentially higher quality products. But it's often times not the absolute cheapest if you're real thorough about maximizing coupons/deals across multiple stores.
Membership cost gets covered for me by the discount in gas at least plus they're now open until 930 in my area so you can fill up when noones around
fantastic thread
>complaining about a win-win decision.
The only one losing here are merchants without any good thing in their store.
any lone man here that has a costco membership
always thought this place was for families due to buying in bulk
Worth it for gas, toilet paper, soda/soft drinks, and liquor (if your state allows it), assuming you have space to store bulk things. Used to be you can get decent deals on things like TVs, but I don't know how true that is anymore, haven't done that in years.
>and liquor (if your state allows it)
There are American states less free than Australia, damn.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alcohol_laws_of_the_United_States
Read if you want a laugh
thank the christcucks for that one
You mean puritans?
Catholic monks literally make wine as a job.
Not just Methodists, also the Baptists (same bunch that thinks dancing and gambling are sins, tbf they might be right about gambling).
it's the fricking METHODISTS
Was there really that many Methodists in America to dictate nation-wide law?
Still is.
And it's still federally illegal to send your friend a bottle of wine in the US mail, thanks to protestant lesbians colluding with the literal mafia. OOHHH SAY CAN YOU SEE
They sell TVs but I'm pretty sure TVs are one of the few things that cratered in price over the years so who cares, probably because they started stapling a bunch of adware on all of them but still
Yeah that's what I figured. You can get such good deals on TVs between Christmas and the Super Bowl that they don't have an advantage anymore.
>"Worth it for gas"
>Spend $5 to drive to costco
>save 20 cents per gallon (btw walmart/murphy's express is the same price without a membership)
>car gas tank is 20 gallons
>you just spent $5 to save $4, Plus membership fees, plus tip
These Black folk ITT failed math class.
>Post clearly states it's worth it for multiple things
>Say it's only worth it for one thing and make up a moronic scenario
Clearly you are the moron
I do. Bulk stuff to freeze and the premade meals can be pretty decent and quick. I just hate how many Mexicans there are, but it still beats seeing Black folk in wal mart.
I have never seen a Mexican in costco
My costco is 70% Indians though and it's infuriating trying to navigate around their brainless families of 10 standing in the way of every aisle
If you have a highly presence, Indians will seethe. I go costcos in nice areas and there are 0 Indians. Indians are low status so they need to stick to their own areas.
>I have never seen a Mexican in costco
They're all over mine. Also Arabs, and a few eastern European groups. Only occasionally see any poos, you can keep them, thank you for your service.
Mine has a ton of Armenians, and then a lot of hispanics, a decent number of Eastern Euros, and some Asians. Only about 1 in 20 people I see there seems to be from America too, though it's hard to tell with the Armenians because they're so insular that you get 3rd and 4th gen American-born ones who can barely speak a few words of heavily-accented English.
I'm not a lone man, but we're a family of two. We shop at costco primarily for meat and for liquor. Sometimes we'll buy big pieces of meat and cut them up for the freezer. Often we'll buy frozen fish fillets and such like. And you can't beat their prices for liquor and wine. They almost always have Johnnie Walker Black, which is our preferred everyday whisky, and often they have Lagavulin 16 which is our special-occasion whisky.
what's his name?
Two isn't a family, it's a couple. Unless you're a single parent. If so I'm sorry.
No, the only reason I go there is to get cialis for cheap. Legally, they are required to allow non-members to use their pharma, prescription eyewear, and hearing aid departments, because it's health care
How cheap? I get mine from Amazon for about $15 a month.
unless youre both in your late 70s you need to stop jerking off six times a day
What if they buy cialis so they can fap six times a day?
men don’t have erection problems because of fapping or getting old. we have erection problems because we’re bored of sleeping with the same woman for 3+ years. you’ll understand when you get in a relationship
It doesn't mean you are using their Healthcare plan dingus
Get a load of this child thinking the average adult is unaware of what health plan they use, grim reminder that a significant % of the people you argue with on the internet are literal children
You can buy shelf stable goods or household products in bulk as a singleton and just use them over time
Buying in bulk helps you combat inflation irrespective of how many dependents you have in your household.
I live by myself but I share a membership with my family who live like 2 timezones away from me.
Even for my own standards, it's pretty worthwhile. Gas and pasta alone justify my membership. I'm about to move soon and I'll probably buy some home appliance from Costco too.
>pasta
Do you buy Barilla pasta? That's the only brand of pasta I ever see at mine.
I got that Rummo brand at the store I most often go to. It comes in packs of 8 bags of spaghetti and each bag would be my lunch for 4 days.
Every other week I get either the curry or just get the pork loin and prep that over the weekend.
If I worked near a Costco I would probably just live on their hotdogs every lunch.
NTA but is there anything wrong with Barilla?
I do. There's a lot of good deals on stuff other than bulk groceries and it makes the membership worth it, lots of household stuff, sometimes tools or electronics, clothes (they're great for low fricks "day off" dadcore stuff), alcohol, etc. They also have really good deals on "luxury" foods that are a ripoff anywhere else, salami and so on, and also stuff like bacon and butter that you can freeze most of.
Yeah my local Costco did the same thing recently, anybody used to be able to walk up and order at a window, now you have to use touchscreen order kiosks that won't do anything until you scan your card.
My local Costco is overrun with belligerent slavs and arabs lately, going there always kinda pisses me off but it's still worth it.
>clothes
>dadcore
can you believe they just killed the classic Kirkland 100% cotton jeans and replaced them with a "new" version, synthetic blend? what the actual FRICK i hate current year
They killed the Levis they had for years too and replaced them with super baggy ones. I'll admit I never really liked any jeans from there except the brief period they had Lucky though, I wear a lot of their other dadcore stuff like those synthetic button-up short sleeve shirts, fleeces, khakis, etc. but I've always been a dark wash straight cut jeans guy and they've never been great for those.
The cotton Kirkies were classic Costco, never the best jeans overall, but the best value for $10 or whatever, and they easily lasted twice as long as Walmart Rustlers for the same price. Now we're back to Walmart and domestic violence disputes in the parking lot, 911 on speed dial.
I've been getting the Walmart Wranglers myself, not the Rustlers but the $22ish ones. I avoid the place like the plague myself otherwise, only set foot in there maybe twice a year when I absolutely need something like those jeans that I can't really get anywhere else.
>low fricks "day off" dadcore stuff
It's not really the clothes that make the person but the majority of people are such losers that dad core clothing highlights how boring and pathetic they are
>Costco is overrun with belligerent slavs and arabs
The problem isn't the race, per se, but there people come into my first world country from the third world and they expect to be treated as my equals. That's the attitude I don't like.
Their workout clothes have outlasted the other store-brand crap out there
its worth it for costco optical alone in my case. They haven't fricked up any of my lenses in 10 years, but every other pair i'd get would be fricked from other shitty places.
Also stocking up on cheap hamburger 10 pounds at a time is great.
What is the ratio of humans to subhumans there. It's possible to go to Costco and not see subhuman, sometimes. If you go to mall or basic supermarket, there are more of them
It's worth it for gas and liquor. When you don't want to cook the rotisserie chicken is good too.
Worth it for the gas prices alone.
bump
>At least it keeps the n'wahs out
WATCH OUT ANON
Oh shi--
Food court's open to non-members now.
Frick it. Might as well switch to Sam's Club at this point.
Just the opposite, the food court is now CLOSED to non-members. At my local one there's no effect since it's inside and you had to show your card to get in anyway. At the ones with outdoor food courts, they now check ID when you order.
Some spergs run around screaming that restaurants are open to everyone by law, or that pharmacies are open to everyone by law, but that's a state-specific issue and I've never run into any bullshit like that in any state I've lived in.
>pb
>last forever
It doesn't, it gets stale/rancid after a year or so even if it's a sealed jar. I've had that happen, lost track of one (I'm a slob) and found it muuuuuuuch later and it had turned into some sort of foul-smelling polymer.
>It doesn't, it gets stale/rancid after a year
Yeah I wasn't planning on buying a lifetime supply of pb all at once lol, just enough to last me for 2-6 months
>by law
In Canada you can't require unnecessary personal information for business transactions. I have not bothered seeing if they give blank memberships or just not actually require one.
Also the Costco in Vancouver has the food court directly opening onto the sidewalk on the same block as 2 stadiums.
>It doesn't, it gets stale/rancid after a year or so even if it's a sealed jar.
I don't think I've had any problems with 1-2 year old peanut butter.
I have 3 dogs
The membership pays for itself after one bag of freeze dried liver and a half bag of dog food
They call him 3 dogs
he's got that dog(s) in him
What color bag you buy? Mine like the freeze dried salmon cubes.
Its green, beef liver
And like 10x cheaper than anywhere else
I got banned from Costco nationally
for what reason?
I fricking hate Costco. It's worse than walmart here. So many fatties just loitering in the aisles GET OUT OF MY WAY AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
In Alpharetta, it's wall to wall Asians, mostly Indians. The one a few miles up the road in Cumming is a nicer shopping experience but that location doesn't sell alcohol so we have to go down to the Alpharetta store sometimes to get booze. The good thing is that the liquor part is completely separate from the rest of the store and apparently Indians don't buy much alcohol so once you get past the demolition derby in the parking lot, things in the liquor store are reasonable.
>wall-to-wall Asians
Every costco on the east coast is this way now, I wish they'd frick off
and their pizza is shit
i like their pizza ;(
>$2 for a 700 calorie slice of 'za
you get what you pay for and at that price it's pretty good
$10 for a whole pizza that can feed four people (if they're not gluttonous fatasses) is amazing too, I can't even cook a decent meal for that money. Sadly Costco is about as good as regular pizza gets in my area too, lots of gourmet places around but nothing decent for plain old NY-style and the ones that come anywhere close are like $30 for a smaller pizza than Costco.
costco has some of the most unaware people I have ever encountered. I never have people get close to me in public but in Costco they will walk or stand so close to you the fabric of your clothes touches. very uncomfortable place to be for me
This is true. I also feel like all the giant ass carts and flat beds kind of herd the people together. Especially around samples. Oh well.
Imagine living in the city
I used them for my gas
>muh $1 hotdog
I can get the same shit at my local texan gas station store. there's no costco in sight to compete so it doesn't really matter though.
The difference is Costco's hot dogs are actually pretty good.
yeah they're shockingly good
They are simply made fresh and put into fresh bread. At the gas station, you're eating 3 day old hot dogs on a shitty week old husk of a bun. Not sure why you'd even compare the two.
I travel a lot for work, gas savings alone let me save money from the membership
>cheaper gas
>cheaper chicken
>even regular priced items are better value than sale price grocery
>with executive membership it pays for itself
My Costco refund was $300 last year
Jesus dude. You spend a lot of money at Costco
>My Costco refund was $300 last year
You bought $15,000 of stuff at Costco last year?
If you use the credit card you get cash back on other stuff
I got $600 one year
It's been said already but I will also vouch for the fact that either Costco or Sam's memberships pay for themselves if you know how to shop. I have a chest freezer in the garage so we load it up with bulk shit every few months for cheap. We still use a regular grocer for some things because not everything is cheaper there.
a subscription fee for groceries
for discount on gas
for discount on tires
for high end prescription glasses guaranteed for life
And if you're not a poor person, you'd know your toilet paper and paper towels alone are the best in the industry, for the best prices
I like my prime and choice steaks, and almond danishes, and vanilla gallon ice cream as reason enough for to go. I get half of my christmas presents while there, as well. No one cries when they get a tub of honey roasted pecans to last all year, LOL, or when you have a 2lb wheel of brie on the table.
More than paid of my membership fee already thanks to their sale on peanut butter back in January. It was about half the price of what it sells for in grocery stores. I bought eight two-packs for a net savings of over $50 just on that purchase.
Yes I still have most of it, my dog doesn't need to be bribed with peanut butter to mount me.
>peanut butter
I should buy some next time I go to 'co. They last forever, are shelf stable, and are a good source of protein and calories
kirkland brand peanut butter is absolutely awful. Sam's Club PB is so much better it's not even funny.
>kirkland brand peanut butter
Haven't seen that, I always see the usual brands like Jif, Peter Pan, etc.
I haven't tried their "organic" in-house brand. The only other brand they sell is Skippy, which is awesome. They sell it for 25% cheaper than anywhere else in the area.
Oh no, I literally just bought some yesterday. How awful is it?
How do you find costco sales? Are there coupons online?
You know if its a sale item or not depending on the cent cost of the item.
Prices ending in “.97”: These prices have been marked down. According to Costco, prices ending in “.97” are usually discounted, but not always.
Asterisk (*) on the upper right side of the price tag: This symbol indicates that the item won’t be reordered once it sells out. This means you should stock up on the item if you need it, as it may not be available again.
Odd pricing, such as 79¢, 49¢, or 89¢: These prices indicate specially priced items that Costco got a deal from the manufacturer. These prices can be better deals than at other stores, but not always better than the 97¢ markdown.
Sorry for the AI sloppa, but I think that is a pretty good QRD on Costco pricing.
I had no clue they had a system like that in place
There's a lot of Costco deep lore. For example, if they run out of stock on a particular item, then you are technically allowed to take the floor model for free, which sometimes leads to scams where people get friends to buy a bunch of items and then return them, so Costco have to place a new floor model, rinse and repeat. But honestly most members don't even read the full Costco bylaws so they have no idea what they're missing. Personally I've only met maybe 10 people who even know about the Executive Lounge and the poker games.
Yeah, the "Death Star" asterisk thing is great.
It was fricking hilarious hearing the leftards reeeeeeeeee when they put it on Bud Light after the troony-fluid thing last year.
I also noticed it on an item that I was buying regularly, and stocked up on a few months of it. Sad that it's gone but I'm still going through my stock. Maybe they'll bring it back like they just did the duck.
>kills whoever touches the price of the fricking hot dog
'sed 'd 'ed
If you shop there enough, it can more than pay for itself.
No?
https://www.foodandwine.com/costco-membership-card-sharing-food-court-8613235
$1.15 per week for gas that's $0.15+/gal cheaper than anywhere else, walking a lap around the store for free samples, and occasionally actually buying some reasonably cheap food
i'd say it's worth it
Gas at my Costco is consistently $0.40 cheaper than discount gas and $0.60-0.70 less than Shell/Chevron. Lines are always pretty long but I don't mind waiting 10 minutes to save hundreds of dollars a year.
>Lines are always pretty long but I don't mind waiting 10 minutes to save hundreds of dollars a year.
I do. I go to BJ's where the gas is more expensive but the lines are always short.
i love their hot dog and chicken bake. if i lived closer or worked near one i would have a subscription just for the food court
They sell food? I buy all my gold bars at Costco.
https://www.costco.com/1-oz-gold-bar-pamp-suisse-lady-fortuna-veriscan-new-in-assay.product.4000186760.html
They sell groceries there, but I don't believe that is the primary purpose of Costco. It's a wholesaler; it's primarily to buy shit wholesale (in bulk or cases). You might actually get a good deal and save if, for example, your fat ass buys a case of Twinkies or Pop Tarts cheaper than per unit. E.g. a case of 8 boxes of pop tarts for $24 ($3/each) rather than $4.30 per unit.
I've actually found better deals at Kroger.
>paying a subscription fee to not shop alongside pieces of shit
this model should be expanded to more businesses, I will happily pay a fee to not have to shop alongside miscreants.
Costco is fine if you know what you're buying and you're actually genuinely saving money compared to regular grocery stores.
Costco products/services have generally been in decline for several years but it's still worth it for:
>decent quality staples (not the cheapest, but often the best VALUE)
>gas
>hearing aids and glasses
>occasional deals on other items, like currently $100 off Kitchenaid mixers
>ultra-liberal return policy
and also....
>LITERAL GATEKEEPING
The atmosphere inside our Costco is remarkably different from the Walmart down the street. You do the math.
Unfortunately, money cannot always buy class. While it's true that the average Costco shopper is less poor than the average Walmart shopper, that generally only applies to white people. If it's Chinese and Indians, it doesn't matter how rich they are, they will always be trash. And there are a lot of chinks and pajeets in my local Walmart and Costco.
>my local Walmart
Trying to talk about class. Lol.
> money cannot always buy class.
We have a BJs membership.
There’s a nice BJs near my old job over an hour away that was a pleasure to shop, even if still a warehouse experience out of the 80s. That area isn’t very upscale, but Lilly white.
There’s another BJs 5 minutes from my house mere blocks off of an upscale shopping strip that has been the main suburban drag since the end of WWII.
This BJs is filled with the dregs of humanity. You could probably get a quorum of United Nations membership just by polling at the doors. Every shopping experience here is filled with screaming latinas of every stripe from dominica to patagonia, pakis and indians scamming each other while competing in aromas, eastern euros trying to slip extra stuff inside their boxes, hutu and tutsi re-enacting hotel rwanda in the parking lot, and zombied out on fent staff that has to deal with this shitshow…
I leave stressed any time I have to shop there… it’s like being on public transportation sober, you’re on full alert to all the nonsense around you and know that none of it is normal or should exist in a civilized area
>public transportation
Have you ever been to traffic court? That's some radicalizing shit.
>If it's Chinese and Indians, it doesn't matter how rich they are, they will always be trash. And there are a lot of chinks and pajeets in my local Walmart and Costco.
We shop there because it's cheaper to buy in bulk. Also idk what you're complaining about, Indians and Chinese people make substantially more money than white people in America. If anything, we use your presence as a barometer of quality lel.
>Indians and Chinese people make substantially more money than white people in America
I think that technically the group with the highest income are Nigerian-Americans
money can't buy basic human decency, something pajeets and chinks both lack
>Indians and Chinese people make substantially more money than white people in America
and white people make substantially more money than Indians in India and Chinks in China. What's your point? Yeah, if you consider only the top 10% of society who are positioned to emigrate you find this is the same everywhere. Tired of you shitskins justifying your presence by comparing your elites to our underclass.
not even a big deal. the real problem is that their prices are now fixed to be almost identical to what you can get at any local non-bulk store. you’re paying for either the label of it being organic/fair trade and the slightest increase in quality for some products. so instead of saving, you’re paying the same price but in turn get a different brand. cosco is still worth it for meat because of the declining quality of processing and shipping
Anybody here made the switch to Sam's Club? They have cheaper gas and a better food court menu now, but we haven't done a side by side comparison for staples.
Just got a membership for $60 with $40 back. Gas there is $0.41 cheaper than anywhere else. Even if I never bought a thing it'd be worth it. Meanwhile going tomorrow to load up on steaks and ground beef since it'll be warm enough to grill.
Has any anon done the math here, do these types of stores (Sam's Club, Costco, etc.) actually save you money, even with the subscription?
It totally depends on how much you shop there and what you buy. My parents have the "executive" membership, which has a cashback thing that more than covers the annual fee so it's definitely worth it for them. If you're in a place with expensive gas the savings from Costco can easily cover the cost as well, I save at least $10 every fill up so it doesn't take long to pay off my $60 membership.
It's also worth it to me just because I can get better stuff for the same money, though. Like say I need towels or pillows, I'm gonna spend the same I would at Target, but I get way nicer ones for the money. They've got a lot of food I like but wouldn't buy at regular grocery store prices too, especially stuff like jerky, salami, cheeses, etc.
Nobody really goes to Costco to save money unless you have extreme self control.
This lol generally Costco has a better than a wal Mart Aldi's or no frills. Simply cause poor people don't spend as much.
Did you actually bother to read the thread? There were multiple examples of the math given.
whats with all the blind and deaf homies on this board?
HUH? WHAT WAS THAT?
>open to public, has prices like a membership store
>massive dairy and frozen pizza section
>top notch liquor department
living in the upper midwest has some perks
lul its a glorified aldi
with all the "samples" i get there, the membership is more than paid for
It is worth it
Let me know how it is, I've always been curious but it has worse macros than the Kirkland Greek Yogurt so I never buy it.
>Not shopping at the grotto under costco
NGMI
What kind of rare ingredients can you find in there?
Deku nuts.
I'm glad the subscription keeps you Black folk out so I don't have to look at you or, heaven forbid, smell you
The one time I remember seeing actual ghetto obnoxiously loud stereotypical hoodrat Black folk at costco they parked their chrysler 300 across 2 parking spots and left their cart behind the car parked next to them despite being 1 space away from a cart return.
>costco king-size bag of doritos
>4.99
>grocery store regular sized bag with 4 servings in it that's been shrunk every 3 months for 4 years straight
>6.49
Kill all grocery stores
You can do that by going to any grocery store before 9
The subscription is worth it for the $1.50 hotdog.
Costco is filled with the most entitled people to ever fricking live.
I don't see whole lamb/goat at my regular grocery store.
The west coast has these things called Costco Business Centers which are closer to restaurant supply stores. That's where you find the whole goats, and 55 gal drums of space lube. But every Costco is theoretically a wholesale store, despite what Reddit's outrage when they see someone buying a whole pallet of pies or Star Wars stuffed toys. (Every single warehouse has a big sign that says Costco WHOLESALE, Karen.)
>$10 a month for the good membership
>access to vastly superior groceries and other goods
>no nogs ever, period
>no mexicans ever, period, because for some reason they think sams club is better (its not)
>the south east asians are all the wealthy ones
only problem with ones in my state are indians will load up their entire 4 generations worth of family members to go walk around costco with an empty cart and b***h about how expensive everything is and how everything is beneath them and not as good as it would be in india (weird how they moved here though, right?) and then leave the empty cart in the middle of an aisle and leave after loitering for hours
but to be fair the poos in my state do this at every large chain store so it's not exclusively a costco issue
tl;dr costco is based and if you complain about the membership you are high school drop out living miles below the poverty line and thus you don't matter in anybodys life including your own
>because for some reason they think sams club is better (its not)
I wageslave at Walmart have a small payroll deduction for the plus membership at sams, but Costco seems to have better items. I just hate how routinely packed it is every time I've been and ultimately decided not to renew my membership. Maybe it's just that I'm visiting at bad times.
>Maybe it's just that I'm visiting at bad times.
Mine is always pretty packed (so is everything in my area though) but I find the best time to go is early afternoon in the middle of the week. That avoids the commercial shoppers that are in there on Monday and Friday, the big families that come on weekends, the old people that always come early in the morning, etc.
>seeing more Mexicans and lard asses
Grim might need to start shopping early morning when they first open. There was a time when a Costco location meant no minority lived within 6 miles
>Nearest Costco is a hour and 25 away from me
All we have is Sam's Club, but I can get a year's worth for under $20.
I feel like the general idea is that Costco is way superior to Sam's but I don't know if that is just the media. Does anyone here go to both?
i've literally never heard of sams club until a few months ago on this board, so costco definitely has more of a household name
I have visited both and in my experince Sam's is a bit less packed than Costco, though I think Costco carries better, higher quality items than Sam's club, and the Kirkland store brand is itself generally is pretty quality, too. I favor Sam's Club for most of my in-store shopping because it's less crowded, as well as have a soft spot for the pizza. I've been on the fence for a while about renewing my Costco membership.
Sam's is less crowded that Costco because Sam's is the inferior store
I wish it wasn't packed. Working in retail and shopping, at Costco in particular, makes me wonder about human consciousness and awareness to the point if I'm becoming a schizo or a sociopath.
Which canned san marzanos are the best ones?
Define 'best'. Foodtubers have done blind taste tests and they usually prefer Bianco Dinapoli but I always go with Cento because they're ~2 dollars cheaper and taste very similar.