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Great ‘What to Buy at Costco & Makro’ Hunt
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lost mine and when i went to costco they didnt have any left!!
Wine & booze is more expensive than Lidl or Morrisons, detergents and household a bit cheaper.
However, electricals are a good buy - I bought a Vax carpet washer 40% lower than in shops and got a Vax turbo hoover for free - worked out at about £50 each, including VAT!
One thing to remember at Makro : all food items are 0% VAT and you pay the price you see on the shelf - all other items add 15% VAT at till.
Roll of good quality bin bags - last about a year. £7 or £8 or something.
Kitchen foil and cling film - is about £10 and again lasts about a year.
Chocolate fudge cakes, and in fact any of their cakes there, about £6-£11 and taste amazing!
Wrapping paper is a real deal.
Can buy a pack of 6 x Colgate Total toothpaste. Don't know if it's a good deal or not
Bought from the tyre place before, and yep that's really good.
Ice cream sundaes from the cafe tastes really good, and is about £1.
Also, there are free refills on soft drinks!:beer:
Also good value are the large bottles of Tabasco sauce, worcester sauce and Nando sauces. Yum! And large pots of peppercorns - both whole and ground. Oh - and the large pots of fajita seasoning mix and blackened cajun seasoning mix - if you like that sort of thing! And we do!
For non-food items though - you do have to remember to factor in the added cost of VAT - easy to forget this if in a hurry.
[Someone mentioned earlier tyres from costco are all "balanced", which doesn't make sense if they don't offer a fitting service... once they are fitted to a wheel rim then the wheel needs balancing to ensure it spins smoothly, the tyre can't be balanced on it's own then fitted at a later date, it doesn't work like that...]
I'd forgotten about those - yes, their tie handle bin liners are excellent quality, no splitting sacks, and a roll seems to last forever. :T
Also remembered that the large tins of both instant & ground coffee are usually a good buy - I get sent with the tea money from work to stock up!
Bagels to die for
Pitta Bread
Danish
Washing powder really good value as discussed earlier
Good for speacial occasions gifts and cakes I buy their BIG muffins and make a muffin spier with a candle in each looks great when lit
still have Makro card but never go anymore
Interestingly, Mr newleaf hates shopping, but he likes going to Costco....
Also, they do Fit the tyres, but they don't do repairs. They only sell new ones.