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.

Does anyone know when this place is quiet?

The closest I could find was some coffee instant mix stuff that you add water too. Apparently you can have it warm or chilled in the freezer like the slurpee coffees you get at Starbucks et al.

It was $10 for a big tin of it which I didn’t want to get stuck with if it tasted like crap (some brand I’d never heard of, it looked like a very American product).

No choclate milk products at all – OMG.

Might go in the morning, hopefully on a weekday it will be not so busy.

I was talking to two Canadian girls while waiting in the cafe line, they said yeah avoid the weekends at all costs and try to go on a weekday morning otherwise it’s always ridiculously busy. Makes sense to me.

Or just not shop there at all. I mean is it really worth all that? It just sounds like a concentration of the worst of human nature to me.

Yeah there’s a lot of blockheads there but to me still worth going. I’ve pretty much done all my staple shopping so I won’t be going back anytime soon. Next week it’s back to bicycle shopping, I think the only things I’ll need will be milk and some random perishables to cook with.

It’s a great feeling knowing I’ve done like 6 months shopping of essentials in 2 days.

When do you start your therapy sessions Oz, for being a Coscoholic?

Costcoholic, I like the sound of that! PATENT PENDING! I won’t be going back for a while so I promise no new articles on them for now .