from memory due to Australia’s strongish food industry the American branded stuff was light. Clothes wise it was US branded but made in China stuff (the only Costco clothing I bought were ‘Champion’ branded sports socks for cycling, and they’re now starting to fall apart).

I imagine Costco would have seasonal items, same as any other retailer. Might be worth giving them a call for some more specific answers.

Hubby and I are thinking of driving down from Gippsland (1 1/2 drive). Hubby is American and is hoping to see some things he cant get here such as USA brand clothing, American foods etc. (We shop regularly at USA Foods!) Also wondering if they have decorator homeware items there? And seasonal items like Halloween and Christmas decorations etc?

Shirley J

I’ll stay with ol king Coles at Sanctuary Lakes which from time to time has great specials where I clean off the shelves. I’m always worried they will impose the “6 limit per customer” like they used to have. Call me a snob but the people at my local Coles are very nice, no fighting over trolleys etc.

Even had a nice police officer warn me once to not leave my handbag on the trolley for robbers to steal. I thanked him then looked around the shop trying to see would be robbers, needless to say it was a quiet morning with just me and a few mums with toddlers in tow.

Still you never know what those toddlers might rifle from a passing trolley.

I get my washing poweder, cleaning products, bulk tissues, dunny rlls, glad wrap ect all delivered and the washing poweder is 20kg for $23. Cant go wrong. I shop at a local butcher called western fresh meats and they have chicken fillets for $8kg every day. No cues. Or lately I have purchased from Tasman meats. They are the cheapest.

I love to shop in bulk. And I am not shy of an impulse buy either. But I live too far to take advantage of this one. And I do ok locally so smaller carbon footprint. Glad to heave cruised past and read all your fantastic posts though. It was stella.

Leanne

4kg bottle of peanut butter? you are mad!

4kg isn’t too bad. Hell I’d buy Nutella in 4kg bottles if they sold it… meanwhile I’m still waiting for a 10kg Milo drum .

depends, for a 6 children non-working mum, maybe, for us, it’s crazy!

But from what I have seen, no cheaper than Aldi
and there is plenty of Aldi stores around (handy).

Mal A

We will probably sign up even though we don’t have a car so it’ll mainly be to buy one or two things.

Geez I hope you live locally!

It was great fun. We were doubtful at first but there are some stellar deals there and the fresh food alone would get us there.
Box of mangos for $15. Deli items were really cheap too. Norwegian smoked salmon $23 kg. We will probably sign up even though we don’t have a car so it’ll mainly be to buy one or two things. Great computers.

Perhaps some of the stuff you can get cheaper elsewhere but the variety all reasonably priced was definitely enough to push us over the line.

I’m not a fan of seafood so can’t comment there but Costco’s meat prices tend to be on par with Vic Market and it’s export quality to boot. I’m buying for one at the moment and have absolutely no issues with storing non-perishables to use gradually over time.

It’s cheaper and means less time wasted going shopping throughout the year.

I couldn’t help but notice you seem to have more of an issue with Costco being American then their business model.

Wy did you delete the others comments?

Not sure which comments you’re referring to Maria, perhaps you’re confusing the comments in this article with one of my other articles on Costco?

The only comment I’ve edited as a gesture of good will was one of Ben’s as Costco felt this was commerically sensitive information.

On the Sunday I had the butch woman security guard out the front with a light sabre constantly shouting about single file for the members ‘shuffle’ into the store.

My trolley was slightly out of alignment with the queue and she comes and pushes it straight and tells me stay in that line please.

I was moving slowly with the line to get into the store ffs where was I going to go pushing a huge trolley!

The parking attendants copped it big time too, wouldn’t want to be one of them.

Surprisingly the register staff were awesome, presumably because they didn’t have to deal with the nutjobs at the front and in the carpark.