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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It entirely depends on what you buy, but you can definitely save a lot of money.  Last night I paid $5.99 for quart of half and half at Safeway. I know 1000% the same brand at Costco is $2.99.  Huge savings.[/quote]

+1. Every single thing I buy at Costco is cheaper and better than the equivalent at the grocery store. If not, I buy it at the grocery store, which I have to go to anyway for things I don't want/can't get at Costco. But I usually spend less than $50/week at the grocery store and $100-$150/week at Costco. If Costco isn't saving you money, you are doing it wrong. [/quote]

+2. My kids eat tons of sliced Pepperidge Farm bread. $5.79 for 2 loaves at Costco. Regular price $4.99 for 1 loaf at Giant. Sometimes Costco even has it on sale.[/quote]

See this makes me think that Pepperidge Farm is selling an inferior product to Costco and Costco is fine selling that because its customers just value price and size and are happy because of PF labeling. Like they're using odds and ends ingredients in these loaves or are slicing them a bit thinner or are using even cheaper preservatives and fillers but the customer would never realize it. I realize huge retailers like Costco negotiate hard with manufacturers and manufacturers want to supply them bc of the sheer volume of product moved, but PF selling bread at basically 50% of the price to Costco than it is to Giant, HT etc. makes me NOT want to go running to Costco. [/quote]

That’s a bizarre theory, sorry. [/quote]

NP here. Might be bizarre but it isn't as impossible as you'd think. I have a cousin who owns a small commercial bakery - no where near the size and scope of Pepperidge Farm, nor do they sell to the likes of Costco. Using cheap inputs is done all the time and it isn't a sneaky thing. Retailers come to them and say - we need to make $x profit per loaf but if we price it more than $y per loaf, we know the product won't sell, make us a cheaper product. And the manufacturer does just that. Sometimes they'll cut the size of the existing product negligibly, and sometimes - yes they will use cheaper inputs to lessen the cost of the product. Gone are the days where a retailer demands a cut rate price and the manufacturer dutifully continues to provide the best product possible while taking a haircut themselves.

YMMV but I think there are already so many additives in US food that aren't used worldwide + US food is already so cheap relative to the rest of the world, that I really don't want to be running to buy THE absolute cheapest thing I can find just because of price/quantity.

FWIW I have multiple friends who've bragged soooo much about how healthy eating is so much easier and cheaper now because they buy 20 lb bags of salmon or cod or whatever from Costco. Every single time I've been treated to one of these fish dinners, the fish has been stringy and not the quality you can buy at a fish market or even a good grocery story like Publix (down where I am in the south) or Harris Teeter in NoVA. Which makes sense bc if Costco is selling you fish at 1/2 the price, something is gotta give in terms of quality somewhere.[/quote]

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