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And the Amazon rotisserie chicken arrived cold and yucky the last time I ordered it.
The DW in the next room heard me laughing!
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And the Amazon rotisserie chicken arrived cold and yucky the last time I ordered it.
Someone mentioned they find Costcos depressing. I find most Walmarts depressing. I don't find Costco depressing - well lit, not cramped, I can easily make a beeline to my favorite sections. Not a whole lot of staff around, yet if you do need help from an employee, they are obviously very well trained.
They have their cohort of buyers who do a lot of product testing, kind of like Consumer Reports, so the limited choices they give us means they have usually filtered down to the best value option, and I am rarely disappointed.
And they treat their employees much better, yet I still get great deals.
I am not a shopper who goes for the cheapest option. A lot of cheap stuff is junk. I want value for my money, and I will pay a little more for something if I think I'm getting better quality for that additional cost. Costco seems to be geared to my type of shopping, so they save me a heck of a lot of time as well as delivering good value to me.
I expect the membership serves as a filter for higher end customers like me. Fine by me as I get enough back on the executive rebate to way more than pay for my annual memberships, and that's not even counting the credit card rewards.
Costco has been very successful with their model, one of the few big retailers not suffering from online shopping. Amazon, I'm sure, has them in their sights. Funny that both are based in the Seattle area.
Wondering what OP meant by "the pain of switching". We routinely use Aldi, HT, Giant Food and BJs. Being retired, I do most of the shopping and just buy what I like best at each one. We do big shops at BJs for family dinners but otherwise just get specific items like coffee, soaps, toothpaste. I have to balance the savings at BJs against the stuff I wouldn't buy otherwise. We get $35 membership through Farm Bureau which also gets us discount at Nationwide insurance. Aldi is my favorite. We had little choice growing up but Safeway that dominated the market has closed many locations.
DW came home from Sam's today with rotisserie chickens. When she goes to Sam's, she always comes home with them. We eat one and she makes chicken salad out of the other. Probably cheaper than buying raw chicken and cooking it....and I think it's pretty good!
Someone mentioned they find Costcos depressing. I find most Walmarts depressing. I don't find Costco depressing - well lit, not cramped, I can easily make a beeline to my favorite sections. Not a whole lot of staff around, yet if you do need help from an employee, they are obviously very well trained.
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Well of course Costco is cheaper than Whole Foods. Whole Foods is a high bar! But Amazon may be changing that.....Recent article from CNBC discussing how Costco is cheaper than Whole Foods. And of course, clickbait is included in the title, "and the one thing millenials can't get at Costco."
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/13/cos...n-whole-foods-but-it-doesnt-sell-lacroix.html
Well of course Costco is cheaper than Whole Foods. Whole Foods is a high bar! But Amazon may be changing that.....
But though Costco generally offers cheaper prices, there's a problem. The selection is limited. One missing item, and missed opportunity: the popular seltzer brand LaCroix, a cult favorite, particularly among millennials.
Well of course Costco is cheaper than Whole Foods. Whole Foods is a high bar! But Amazon may be changing that.....