Amethyst
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Belonging to a grocery club is part of our LBYM strategy for groceries. The closest one to us is BJs, and we get a reduced BJs membership fee through work. We accept that BJs doesn't carry everything we need, so we have a complementary grocery-store strategy as well.
In the past year, BJs seems to be going downhill. They keep moving the products around to weird places in the store (raisins and dried apricots have been in 4 different illogical places), and there is never anyone to ask where anything is located. Worse, they're starting to lose items that we consider staples.
Item: ACT fluoride rinse. Disappeared roughly a year ago; hasn't been seen since, although BJs has an entire aisle devoted to dental products.
Item: Giant box of Triscuit crackers for $5.99 - roughly 1/3 what we'd pay for the same amount of Triscuits at the grocery store. Disappeared from the shelves 2 months ago.
Item: Big box of Carnation dry milk, which I use for instant-coffee mix that I take to work. Today, there was nothing but canned milk.
Item: Friskies cat food, shredded style, which our cats prefer. For a year, BJs has carried only loaf style.
Anybody else noticed this degradation at their box store? Is Costco any better?
In the past year, BJs seems to be going downhill. They keep moving the products around to weird places in the store (raisins and dried apricots have been in 4 different illogical places), and there is never anyone to ask where anything is located. Worse, they're starting to lose items that we consider staples.
Item: ACT fluoride rinse. Disappeared roughly a year ago; hasn't been seen since, although BJs has an entire aisle devoted to dental products.
Item: Giant box of Triscuit crackers for $5.99 - roughly 1/3 what we'd pay for the same amount of Triscuits at the grocery store. Disappeared from the shelves 2 months ago.
Item: Big box of Carnation dry milk, which I use for instant-coffee mix that I take to work. Today, there was nothing but canned milk.
Item: Friskies cat food, shredded style, which our cats prefer. For a year, BJs has carried only loaf style.
Anybody else noticed this degradation at their box store? Is Costco any better?