Whats Costco like?

noonesperfect

They get some great offers on thru the year.

I can't add much to the above but the meat is wonderful, much better quality than anywhere else I've tried. Some of the christmassy stuff is very good value, such as the medjool dates and pannetone. Batteries usually work out cheaper, but basically you've got to have some idea of the price of things you're likely to want to buy cos things are sometimes dearer at Costco. As with any store, prices will vary from one time to the next.

One of my best saves was a 12 pack of excellent quality chopped tomatoes for £3.39 (4 pack of similar from Tesco £2.55). Special offer on Kleenex triple* toilet rolls worked out at about £2 for 12, but you have to buy 60 rolls!!) *That sort of offer only comes round about once a year tho.

Much depends on what you want on the day you go, if you see something cheap and it'll keep buy plenty, cos it won't be the same price next time!!!

Hadley

Their Danish pastries are really nice and also freeze well

rev229

There packs of pork sausages are really good 24 thick sausages for 3.99 I bought 8 sausages from a butchers a while back and paid 5.00 costcos where much better. Also sliced ham about 24 slices for 10.00 thick cut I freeze them in batches for pack lunches also sliced chicken breast and roast beef proper meat not plastic! Actimal and yoghurts are cheap as is the canned drinks. And the steath frozen oven chips are nice. Washing powder is good value as it is brand named I use the airel liquid which is very good about 13.00 for 200 washes. All the cakes. My kids love costco at lunchtime as they have lots of food sample stalls. There restraunt is great and cheap Large slice of pizza 1.35. Books are also very reasonable similar books and prices as the book people, we got Harry potter for less than 5.00. We are lucky as we live very near costco so pop in to buy what we need as and when otherwise you will need a bigger house to store all the stuff you are tempted to buy. Not everything is cheaper but most of us here shop around to get the best prices on things.My husband thinks I am really sad as I keep a record of what is cheaper where! This is quite amazing as I have an appalling memory for anything else apart from shopping!!!

judderman62

overpriced

over hyped


didn't bother renewing when my card ran out


People rave about it and ehm sorry but I just didn't see anything to rave about I was significantly underwhelmed

ClaireLR

Judderman I think I have to agree with you to a certain point.

We went there yesterday, not particualarly to buy anything, more to see what they sell that we would be interested in buying. I thought that a lot of the stuff was a lot more pricey than in the supermarkets. A huge punnet of grapes for example, was £4.99, but you could buy 5 normal size punntes for that and I'm sure there would be more grapes. Also, the meat looked expensive, I bought a joint of lamb and it was good quality but at £7 it was only the same size as one I could have bought from a supermarket, so no cheaper. Their mince was around £12 per tray, which was a huge tray but again I'm sure this would have worked out to be more than mince from the butcher (I get 5lb for a fiver at the local farm shop).

That said, it did look good for things like bulk buy tins, toiletries, cleaning products/loo rolls and that type of thing and I'm sure I will use it for that.

Thanks to everyone who replied to this thread originally.

koru

We also go through a lot of batteries, and used to get bulk packs from Costco, but have realised that it is cheaper to use rechargeables, and better for the environment.

The problem with rechargeables is that they lose their charge even if they are not being used, but not any more. Check out these new type, which keep their charge for a year or so: https://www.batterylogic.co.uk/hybrio.htm

You can get them for as little as £5.99 for 4 AA's (at https://www.batteryplanet.com). Not sure if Costco have them. As you can recharge them 500 times, that's 0.3p per battery, compared with 20p or more, for alkalines. For something that uses power really slowly (like a clock), it may take years to recoup your money, so you might want to stick with alkalines, but for high drain uses, like digital cameras and game boys, you should recoup your money in no time.

redmel1621

Hi
I have recently had the opportunity to join Costco, is what i'm wondering is how worthwile this would be.
I got a quick look around the shop yesterday and a couple of prices seemed good but there were others that didn't seem much different to tesco, although i was finding it hard to remember all the tesco prices so may be wrong about that.
I did notice that the Flora light was good value as we usually go through 5 of these in a month and they now cost £3.08 in Tesco wheras at Costco they were £2.09, which I thought was a good saving.

Can anyone who has shopped here tell me if there are other good savings like this to be had.

Mel x

lv1109

I think just for your Flora savings (£60 per year) it is worth it. As the membership is only £30 you are still saving £30 per year just for margarine!!

Sounds good to me! :T

organic_wanabe

If you look on the 'Shop But Don't Drop Board' you will find a thread entitled "Costco - Your Best Buys" which should help you decide.

I had previously had a card and then let my membership lapse. However, I rejoined a few months ago and have since used it to buy a TV (saved about £100), an iLuv Music System for my DS which was about £30 cheaper than Amazon, a birthday cake that sister wanted, 7 planters for my potatoes (which were half the cost of the garden centre), not to mention various grocery items. I reckon that for this year, at least, it has been well worth the cost.

Penelope_Penguin

Hi, mel - we have an older thread on what people like at Costco. I'll join your thread to that one to keep ideas together.

Penny. x