Costco

[lookout123]

Costco is my wife's "$200" store. we may go in to simply drop off a roll of film, but we will have $200 worth of something when we leave. they actually have very very good meat there. she buys pork chops, chicken, and steak in bulk there and it is really really good. really.

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Originally Posted by lookout123

Costco is my wife's "$200" store. we may go in to simply drop off a roll of film, but we will have $200 worth of something when we leave.

That's how Trader Joe's works for me. I can never leave with an empty bag.

There are only two reasons I'm not a Costco member, though I've liked everything I've seen and heard about them:

1) The closest to me are in King of Prussia (near the mall, often a VERY inconvenient drive) and Christiana, Delaware (a pretty good haul), and
2) BJ's Wholesale Club is very structurally similar in terms of prices and inventory, is also not part of the Wal-Mart empire, and is much closer to where I live. I don't know if BJ's is anywhere near Costco in terms of treating their employees like gold, though.

If I hadn't been a BJ's member for almost a decade, I'd think seriously about Costco, but I don't know that I'm going to make the drive to KoP often enough and buy enough to justify the added membership.