Reply to: Whole sale cash and carry

[TheFaQQer]

That's not true.

Oops, silly me - they did let me look around to see whether it was worthwhile joining.

I wonder why I remember it differently to you - but of course, you were there so I must not be telling the truth about my experience

[rd409]

I had Costco membership for a year, and then cancelled it - just wasn't worthwhile. They also refused to let me look round to see whether it was worthwhile before I joined.

I use my Makro card fairly regularly - meat has always been good, their Indian platters are nice (lots of samosas), and my chewing gum habit would be prohibitively expensive if I didn't go there!!

That's not true. Atleast my local warehouse lets you get a guest pass to look around. You cannot buy anything unless you are a member, but you can definitely look around.

They keep on bringing new stuff and really good price, plus the guarantee is outstanding. If something breaks you can return it - no questions asked. That alone makes it worth spending the membership fees.

[chopper]

You get cashback on what you spend, though, so it pays for itself if you keep going there.

The £24 inc VAT membership (tax deductable, of course) doesn't offer cashback. That would be the £60 inc VAT membership giving 2% cashback.

So if you spend £1800 or more a year in Costco, then fill your boots on that membership. Otherwise the £24 membership will do ;-)

[TheFaQQer]

Costco? Haven't tried them myself.

I had Costco membership for a year, and then cancelled it - just wasn't worthwhile. They also refused to let me look round to see whether it was worthwhile before I joined.

I use my Makro card fairly regularly - meat has always been good, their Indian platters are nice (lots of samosas), and my chewing gum habit would be prohibitively expensive if I didn't go there!!

[rl4engc]

I agree about Makro, they re-organised our local one and huge areas are now just selling individual units of stuff. It's still good for things like sauces, herbs n spices, gravy, some frozen stuff.

I've been thinking of joining these but lack of freezer space currenly prohibits it :-

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For foreign foods I find the chinese supermarkets (e.g. Wing Fat in Manchester) are very good, and smaller independent e.g. Polish or Asian stores.

[FatLazyContractor]

They sell the best Steaks in the world. I tend to buy my meat for deep freezer from Costco.

[LondonManc]

For Costco you have to pay for membership which is ridiculous, besides that there's non near to where I live

You get cashback on what you spend, though, so it pays for itself if you keep going there. The enemy made a chicken curry with the chicken from Costco last night and it was bloody good. I've also picked up a load of multipack soft drinks for my local bowls club because I can get them Pepsi at 23p/can so that they can make some decent money on it to boost their coffers rather than them *hopefully* breaking even from a high street multipack offer.

They also do some great offers on clothes; they often get runs of things like Hugo Boss, Armani, Ralph Lauren, Levis, etc. £53 for a pair of 501s seemed decent while also boosting your cashback (which generally clears off your membership if you pick up enough bargains!)

Besides, who can resist a hot dog and cola for £1.50? Better value than any high street hot dog stand.

[filthy1980]

recently became of member of Costco again

they have a 80" "monitor" which my business requires for displaying Gnatt charts that run off my standard 15" screen

[WTFH]

For Costco you have to pay for membership which is ridiculous, besides that there's non near to where I live

It's £24 a year - not exactly ridiculous if you do a couple of big shopping trips to it, or buy high value items from them.
Nearest one to me is about an hour's drive.

[Eirikur]

For Costco you have to pay for membership which is ridiculous, besides that there's non near to where I live

[mudskipper]

Costco? Haven't tried them myself.

[Eirikur]

So Booker own Makro, since 2012.

Booker swoops to buy up beleaguered Makro

For some reason I thought this take over never happened.
So any other alternatives?

[MicrosoftBob]

As a Director of your own Ltd company you should be shopping exclusively at Fortnum and Mason...

HTH

MarillionFan

FTFY

[chopper]

Makro

looking for alternatives

Booker

So Booker own Makro, since 2012.

http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/channels/...229568.article

[Eirikur]

As a Director of your own Ltd company you should be shopping exclusively at Harrods...

HTH

MarillionFan

I have a Harrods card as well