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[quote=Anonymous]This has to be the most common recurring DCUM query.

We do a lot of shopping at Costco and I pay pretty close attention to prices and can't think of anything that isn't cheaper there.

Sure there are regular sales at the grocery store that get the prices close to Costco prices but on most things I think Costco is 24-40% cheaper than Giant/Safeway.

As others have pointed out you if you don't eat everything you buy you could end up wasting money but that mostly applies to fresh produce.

An example of something we buy at Costco and not at the grocery store is baby spinach - at Costco for $4 you get twice as much spinach as you get at Giant for $4.  Sometimes we don't finish it because it is a lot of spinach but we are still saving money.

FWIW we've always found the produce to be high quality.

I don't think it is an exaggeration that we pay for our membership on every trip - we go about once a month and usually spend about $350 per trip.

I think where they get you is when you buy stuff you don't really need but are tempted because of the price - we almost always walk out with 2-3 things we don't need.  As an example last weekend we came home with a pair of super soakers a couple of kids books we otherwise would not have bought.

The one variable in this is that Costco is really a trip for us - it is about 20 minutes extra each way over going to the neighborhood store we can walk to.  But we almost always bundle the trip up with something else so it isn't such a loss of time - if we can't combine trips we often will go an extra month between visits.[/quote]

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