On Feb 20, 8:23*am, Stu > wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 06:05:13 -0500, Old Harley Rider
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> > wrote:
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> >Doug Freyburger wrote:
> >> Jean B. wrote:
> >>> Cindy Fuller wrote:
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> >>>> ... *She said that she and Rich
> >>>> had let their Costco membership lapse. *The SO and I have debated for
> >>>> years about the value of getting a Costco membership. *I briefly had a
> >>>> Sam's Club membership many years ago, but I let it lapse because there
> >>>> wasn't one nearby when I moved from Dallas to Ithaca in 1986. *Our
> >>>> neighbors are big Costco aficionados, and my relatives back east are
> >>>> devotees of BJ's and Sam's. *To my thinking, a membership doesn't make
> >>>> much sense for the two of us. *We don't have oodles of space to store
> >>>> large quantities of stuff. *Anyone in a small household want to chime in
> >>>> one way or another?
> >>> ... *MY debate was
> >>> whether to go for the more-expensive membership, and I decided the
> >>> kickback was worth at least that amount.
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> >> We shop regularly at Costco. *In some years we've had overlapping
> >> memberships in both Costco and Sams Club and that wasn't worth paying
> >> the extra fee.
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> >> Costco has better meat than any of the local groceries, less expensive
> >> than any of the local butchers. *We get most of our meat at Costco and
> >> some at the local butcher now. *They also have a lot of products that
> >> have better price or are just not available at other stores. *The larger
> >> package size rarely matters to us. *If we lived in a downtown tiny
> >> closet sized place it might matter but we live out in the burbs.
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> >> Our question now is should we downgrade from the fancy Executive
> >> membership to the regular membership. *We don't quite spend enough in
> >> the year for the fancy membership for pay for itself and *I don't recall
> >> using any of the other extra services. *This is a function of just being
> >> the two of us now.
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> >The wife and I have a Sam's membership. We use it strictly for gasoline.
> >We very seldom go in to the Sam's store. Sam's is only about a mile
> >away. You have to buy large portions of groceries at Sam's. We just use
> >Walmart for 90% of our groceries.
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> We haven't shopped at wally world since the early 90's, *because most
> of their products are from china.
>
> Stu
>
> More than your average recipe website ..http://foodforu.ca
I wouldn't shop at Walmart no matter how cheap they are.