Costco Purchases

[Anna_S]

I'm venturing to Costco tonight for the first time!
What are the highlights, what should I not leave without?

[Vixpy1]

A canoe

[Nicholas Blair]

Garden shed and golf clubs.

[Austin.J]

The pizza, its like a distbin lid!

[NikB]

Austin.J said:

The pizza, its like a distbin lid!

That sounds nice

[andy43]

Angus rib-eye steak, their carrot cake and chocolate cake (again, dustbin-lid-sized), sliced mango, have a look in the freezer cabs at pies, beef wellingtons etc - some of it isn't bad.
And another canoe here.

[Papoo]

No idea about in the UK, but here in Arizona, the quality at Costco is of a very high standard for the price...

To answer your question... A golf cart, and an 8 gallon box of fish food.

Try to combine them in a game.

[Roger645]

Big jar of Jelly-belly jelly beans and some fillet of venison

[juice]

A big F-Off inflatable swimming pool.

No idea about the food, sorry.

[Anna_S]

Ooh what a fun place, definitely found some bargains on the alcohol isle!

[taldo50]

all im hearing about at the mo is costco, what the hell is it? i live in the northeast, if its a new thing it may not have made it up norf yet

[Stu R]

taldo50 said:

all im hearing about at the mo is costco, what the hell is it? i live in the northeast, if its a new thing it may not have made it up norf yet

just a big cash and carry. Like makro but half decent. There's been one in gateshead for years.

[tali1]

Their celebration cakes are the best and cheapest around.Apart from that it is pretty disappointing and unspectacular - the highlight being their generous refund policy.

[camgear]

CAKE

[JonRB]

Trouble with Costco is that you can go in for a packet of biscuits and come out £300 poorer but with a trolley-load of stuff. Everything a bargain apart from the fact that you hadn't intended to purchase it.

[sal 965]

Jim Barry wine. £15 in morrisons and less than than £7 at Costco.

Saying that i've just blown £293 tonight and that was using the passport offers.

Wasn't much to show for it apart from bottles and cans and meat

[Papoo]

sal 965 said:

Wasn't much to show for it apart from bottles and cans and meat

That'll do it... What the hell else did you go for?

Oddly over here in the US, their diamonds appraise for much higher than they cost. A friend purchased an engagement ring from there, which was politely declined (haha), and he only lost about $45 when selling it to a high street jeweller..

[Nicholas Blair]

JonRB said:

Trouble with Costco is that you can go in for a packet of biscuits and come out £300 poorer but with a trolley-load of stuff. Everything a bargain apart from the fact that you hadn't intended to purchase it.

And add VAT

[JonRB]

One thing you do have to watch with Costco is that not everything is a bargain. The trick is to only buy the loss-leaders and genuine bargains and steer clear of the claw-back stuff.

Wine is not automatically cheaper, for example. Often the supermarkets can match the price, especially when running Special Offers.

I've also found 'tech to be massively over-priced. TVs and Laptops are often a model behind yet priced at or just below the internet selling rate of the equivalent current model. You need to be *very* clued up to get a bargain in that dept.

Two ongoing bargains for petrolheads are car batteries (Bosch Asia Silver at £60-odd rather than the usual £90-odd) and Mobil 1 engine oil.

[satans worm]

JonRB said:

Trouble with Costco is that you can go in for a packet of biscuits and come out £300 poorer but with a trolley-load of stuff. Everything a bargain apart from the fact that you hadn't intended to purchase it.

This is just so true