Is Costco worth it in your opinion?

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Anonymous wrote:We find some of the produce options "too big'. Just can't eat that many grapes before some go bad and we have to toss them.

Freeze them! They're great frozen snacks, even in the dead of winter. You don't need an industrial size refrigerator, contrary to what others here seem to suggest. I can't possibly go through five dozen eggs but they do sell a pack of 18 eggs for an unbeatable price.

Aldi can beat the egg price.

I've priced Aldi and Costco and for us they are nearly the same, costco is a few cents cheaper but you have to buy 18 rather than 12 (which is good for us because 12 isn't enough and 24 is too much). Costco has more reliable quality control than Aldi overall on many products.

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Anonymous wrote:NOT worth it. 1. Sams club is much closer and the drive is so far that we can't buy frozen food. 2. Can't really buy anything without spending hundreds of dollars there. We have a Costco card but ONLY because we get one for free because family.

If you live very far from one, and can't afford to shop there anyway, I agree it isn't worth it.

Somehow, I don't think that was the question.

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Anonymous wrote:I got gas at Costco yesterday. It was $2.33 a gallon. The nearby Citgo that I often use when I don't get to Costco was $2.29 a gallon. The Sunoco two blocks down was $2.34 a gallon. Usually Costco is at least 15 cents cheaper than my neighborhood gas stations. Just an observation. Not sure what's up.

Using my Giant points, I got $ .70 off a gallon and paid $1.90 a gallon.

How much did you have to spend in Giant to receive that $0.70 off a gallon if I may ask? Thanks.

Sorry, I don’t know. It is walking distance to my house so we shop there regularly and accumulate “gas points” at shell gas stations.

It's $700.

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Anonymous wrote:I got gas at Costco yesterday. It was $2.33 a gallon. The nearby Citgo that I often use when I don't get to Costco was $2.29 a gallon. The Sunoco two blocks down was $2.34 a gallon. Usually Costco is at least 15 cents cheaper than my neighborhood gas stations. Just an observation. Not sure what's up.

Using my Giant points, I got $ .70 off a gallon and paid $1.90 a gallon.

How much did you have to spend in Giant to receive that $0.70 off a gallon if I may ask? Thanks.

Sorry, I don’t know. It is walking distance to my house so we shop there regularly and accumulate “gas points” at shell gas stations.

It's $700.

I don’t know about Giant, but Safeway often has bonuses with the gas rewards (eg, double points on produce or 4 has rewards if you spend $60 in a single trip) so it may not take a full $700 to get 70 cents of rewards.

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Anonymous wrote:I got gas at Costco yesterday. It was $2.33 a gallon. The nearby Citgo that I often use when I don't get to Costco was $2.29 a gallon. The Sunoco two blocks down was $2.34 a gallon. Usually Costco is at least 15 cents cheaper than my neighborhood gas stations. Just an observation. Not sure what's up.

Using my Giant points, I got $ .70 off a gallon and paid $1.90 a gallon.

How much did you have to spend in Giant to receive that $0.70 off a gallon if I may ask? Thanks.

Sorry, I don’t know. It is walking distance to my house so we shop there regularly and accumulate “gas points” at shell gas stations.

It's $700.

I don’t know about Giant, but Safeway often has bonuses with the gas rewards (eg, double points on produce or 4 has rewards if you spend $60 in a single trip) so it may not take a full $700 to get 70 cents of rewards.

Giant doesn't have that. And way to quibble about a completely extraneous point.

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Anonymous wrote:I got gas at Costco yesterday. It was $2.33 a gallon. The nearby Citgo that I often use when I don't get to Costco was $2.29 a gallon. The Sunoco two blocks down was $2.34 a gallon. Usually Costco is at least 15 cents cheaper than my neighborhood gas stations. Just an observation. Not sure what's up.

Using my Giant points, I got $ .70 off a gallon and paid $1.90 a gallon.

How much did you have to spend in Giant to receive that $0.70 off a gallon if I may ask? Thanks.

Sorry, I don’t know. It is walking distance to my house so we shop there regularly and accumulate “gas points” at shell gas stations.

It's $700.

So you have to spend $700 to get 70 cents off of one gas fill-up? But you think it's a better deal than Costco? Ok.

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There are countless money and home bloggers who have done supermarket vs costco and Aldi vs costco shopping trips.

Costco wins out most of the time (I read a ton of them before we joined to make sure it was a better deal). The supermarket wins out with the craft coupon clippers.

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Anonymous wrote:We find some of the produce options "too big'. Just can't eat that many grapes before some go bad and we have to toss them.

Freeze them! They're great frozen snacks, even in the dead of winter. You don't need an industrial size refrigerator, contrary to what others here seem to suggest. I can't possibly go through five dozen eggs but they do sell a pack of 18 eggs for an unbeatable price.

Aldi can beat the egg price.

I've priced Aldi and Costco and for us they are nearly the same, costco is a few cents cheaper but you have to buy 18 rather than 12 (which is good for us because 12 isn't enough and 24 is too much). Costco has more reliable quality control than Aldi overall on many products.

Agree on the quality control. Costco produce tends to be fresh and of high quality. Maybe we just eat a lot of fruits/veggies, and in fairness I try to stick to things I know everyone will eat, but we rarely have trouble using it up because it lasts longer than average. I've tried Aldi a few times and maybe it's just the one I go to but the produce always looks kind of sad off the bat and they never have half of what I need anyway. So then I wonder about the freshness of other items.

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I love the turkey sandwiches in the snack bar. Best 3.99 I’ve spent all week.

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It's not worth it just because I hate going there. I'm so glad I dropped the membership.

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Anonymous wrote:I got gas at Costco yesterday. It was $2.33 a gallon. The nearby Citgo that I often use when I don't get to Costco was $2.29 a gallon. The Sunoco two blocks down was $2.34 a gallon. Usually Costco is at least 15 cents cheaper than my neighborhood gas stations. Just an observation. Not sure what's up.

Using my Giant points, I got $ .70 off a gallon and paid $1.90 a gallon.

How much did you have to spend in Giant to receive that $0.70 off a gallon if I may ask? Thanks.

Sorry, I don’t know. It is walking distance to my house so we shop there regularly and accumulate “gas points” at shell gas stations.

It's $700.

So you have to spend $700 to get 70 cents off of one gas fill-up? But you think it's a better deal than Costco? Ok.

Not exactly, you get 10 cents a gallon for every $100 spent. Since this is my regular grocery store, and I spend multiples of that monthly, it is a pretty good deal.

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Anonymous wrote:I got gas at Costco yesterday. It was $2.33 a gallon. The nearby Citgo that I often use when I don't get to Costco was $2.29 a gallon. The Sunoco two blocks down was $2.34 a gallon. Usually Costco is at least 15 cents cheaper than my neighborhood gas stations. Just an observation. Not sure what's up.

Using my Giant points, I got $ .70 off a gallon and paid $1.90 a gallon.

How much did you have to spend in Giant to receive that $0.70 off a gallon if I may ask? Thanks.

Sorry, I don’t know. It is walking distance to my house so we shop there regularly and accumulate “gas points” at shell gas stations.

It's $700.

So you have to spend $700 to get 70 cents off of one gas fill-up? But you think it's a better deal than Costco? Ok.

Not exactly, you get 10 cents a gallon for every $100 spent. Since this is my regular grocery store, and I spend multiples of that monthly, it is a pretty good deal.

That's 70 cents/per gallon. 20 gallon tank = $14