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[quote=Anonymous]The answer is probably yes but it depends on your shopping habits.

For staples like pasta and canned beans etc it will not be cheaper than the store brands at grocery stores and probalby not cheaper than the sale prices at grocery stores.  
For items that are expensive everywhere (pesto, premium ice cream, nuts, organic whole bean coffee, raspberries, fresh cherries, organic strawberries, organic eggs, they are undoubtedly cheaper.   We go through most of tjose items pretty quickly but otherwise I just freeze (chop berries and have them frozen ready for smoothies).

I really don’t buy a lot of prepared frozen food (like frozen pizza) so not sure how that compares but when they do have the organic bean burritos (rarely) it is a third of the price of the same product at giant.

There are also some things that aren’t worth it because of the way they mix the packaging — we don’t buy yogurt there even though it’s a lot cheaper just because they always put in one flavor no one likes.  But sometimes it makes sense to donate the other flavors if it’s a non perishable — Rx bars at target are 5 for $9, but I got 14 at Costco for $12 I think so even if I donate half of them it still comes out about the same.  We used to do that with the Annie Mac and cheese — there was one type my kids didn’t like in the mixed pack so I would just donate those boxes.

When we first belonged there, as just two adults no kids, the savings just on milk basically paid our membership. My husband and I both like milk and would go through a gallon a week—we were saving about a dollar a eeek and the basic membership price at that time was about $60.  I haven’t updated that math in the 20 years since.  [/quote]

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